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Show MEXICO m HI LnlflL i lany Cities Are in Danger of a Reign of Anarchy ai 'A M Chihuahua, May 10. (Via El Paso, II 'jMay 12.) Two thousand insurrectos, iQ J part of the band operating In the dls- I: tricts south of here, are today report-;';eu report-;';eu to be marching on Chihuahua. Already the advance guards are en-.J en-.J ;"ii camped around the city. An armed -A mob just before day light today en-i, en-i, J tered Nombro Le Dlos, a suburb, M Jooted all the stores and took all the I a horses, despite the presence of 1,500 .J federal troops In nearby barracks, and S ';, escaped. I 1 Santa Eulalia, an important mining , camp twele miles eaBt of the city, ?i has been abandoned by all the muni-! ft 4 cipal officials because of the approach j 3 $of the Insurrectos. The place is now k 4 regulated wholly by Americans em- Li 3 ployed in the mines. I S I This city, long In dread of an at-' jrtnek. is now in greater fear than ever I 1 because of the extreme violence I shown by the Insurrectos in their ?. northward march The whole district Ijll embracing Durango. Torrcon and in- ftermedlatc towns, has been in a state . approaching anarchy. j To conceal their movements, the i rebels destroyed all the remaining ! ? ; telegraph and railroad lines, so that X ? Ghlhuahua City, with Its 35.000 ln-I ln-I ! habitants, has been Isolated for prac-jjjli prac-jjjli !tcally two weeks This dispatch is 2ij sent 225 miles overland by auto to SI EI Paso Tex. j The situation in the south is re- ; ported here as follows: - ; Torreon, 2C.000 population, includ-!f includ-!f '.'' ing numerous Americans, surrounded fy I by rebels, estimated at 2,000 In nuin-I nuin-I J btr; communication in all directions !f cut oil and Inhabitants in constant f fear of attack. I Lordo, three miles from Torreon, ln hands of rebels, under Pablo La-,'f.vln; La-,'f.vln; condition chaotic and acts or i violence gel Palacio Gomez, near Torreon, In- ' & vaded by In surrectos and in fear of S attack. jj Durango. 2,000 population, surround- Mod by insurrectos and in fear of attack. at-tack. pX ' Zacatccas, 33,000 population, 250 iel1 miles south of Torreon. surrounded ' tf by Insurrectos; possesses only small M federal garrison j Aguas Callentes, 5G.000 population, 'a ; described as a hotbed of revolution-5 revolution-5 : ists, who frequently make excursions !, into the town and receive eucouragc- i ment from the inhabitants. , Parral, located on a branch line , from Jiminlez, just south of here, has i sent out a distress signal. Fifteen ' i hundred insurrectos surrounded the own and already have captured Mi-, & nas, Luevas, a suburb. I ' Guadalupe wns entered by several JS hundred men, who shot the jefe poll-' ilco, a lieutenant and several federal ' !i employes All the stores were looted ' 1 und the municipal records burned ' t August Beckman, an American of j I Luckenback, Tex , was pulled off n I horse while trying to escape and was ! ijt prderod executed. Several shots ! . r were fired, but he escaped after sut-r sut-r fering a wound in the scalp and hand. Ho, with other Americans, appealed : to the United Stales consul for pro-It pro-It lection IRosario, another town, has been cut off for some time, and its fate at the hands of the insurrectoa is unknown An appeal from there before be-fore the wires closed said conditions of anarchy prevailed, many of the regularly constituted authorities hav-. ing fled j Inde, south of Rosario, was sacked and taken after twenty people had been killed. As soon as tho appeal from Parral came, an armored tram vas sent from here as a relief. Tho 'train went as far as Jimlnez and was , was proceeding on tho branch to Par-g Par-g j! ral, when it suddonlj slopped and I j' came back. The official roport stales A j that insurrectos were seen ahead in 2 1 such great numbers that li was gj.J deemed unsafe to proceed. The ef- 11 fort to extend aid to the besieged . I town therefore, was abandoned. The ' 1 Americans at Parral are engaged ' chiefly In the mining and banking t ( business. J Chihuahua City Is In poor way to 01 withstand a prolonged Isolation as It r had no reserve supply of provisions wt:t before the rnllroau was cut. Criticism 2 1 is made by citizens becauso of the fjyt neglect shown by the federal govern-?jj'' govern-?jj'' mont In not keeping the city Informed (j,-of developments outside. It is also I j declared that had the government ac- ceded to the demands of tholnsur-j! tholnsur-j! i restos, that no troops bo carried over ! tho Ilne3, communication would have ijjjf been kept open and much suffering S' would have been avoided No reliable jl news concerning the peace negotia- '. tions has been allowed lo reach tho ft I city. i, In the territory adjacent tp and ,l ) south of Torreon, towns hae been In-A In-A ! -vaded, stores looted, railways and y j telegraphs destroyed and jefo pollll- cos have been killed off with some-PJ some-PJ 3 tiling like monotonous regularity, 'Jj ; while in many Instances the federal 'j f troops stood bv utterly helpless. Jft 7 Those In authority do not conceal jM their belief that the conditions tibout Torreon, and the largo section of the Interior embracing the cities of Durango, Dur-ango, Parral, Aguas Callentes and Zacatccas Za-catccas is fast becoming a greater (Continued on Page Eight.) MEXICO AFLAME 35 (Continued from Page One.) : mm t m- menace to the federal government '' Jfthi that Madero's forces. r, tt ??re Rushing Soldiers South. '. iifol Denver, May 12. Rush orders wen If' received at Fort Logan today to sedi! I v forty men to San Diego, Cal., anc jMEEl they will leave tomorrow. Twenty wEEl five other recruits have been sent tc ll the Mexican border within the lasA 'MTfl three days. IPIIU Htt |