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Show DRIVEN OUT Iff REBELS I Americans, Forced to Give Up Homes in Mexico, Reach Border ; El Paso, Texas, July 30 Nearly i COO American women and children, hungry and worn out with fatigue and k fear, arrived here late yesterday They m came on another special train of ref- ugees from the -Mormon colonleb in il the Casas Grandes district 200 miles I south ol the United States border at I this point. J The train departed for more an(J t still more arc expected on another jraJn,.d.ue to. ar.r.ii;e Jiere-arl.v -tomar.-low. That the exodus of Americans t from Mexico will be thorough Is evidenced evi-denced by events today. There are ; already more than S00 refugees from ' the ihreee large and three small colonies, colo-nies, each with almost an eutire American population Dublan. with 1.200. Juarez, with S00, Diaz, 750, and three minor mountain settlements, with from 250 to 300 population each. ; According to conserxalhc figures ' given by the Mormon church officials more than 3,650 Americans in Mexico consider themselves In grave danger. Only the women and children are be- ing moved, the mep remaining disarmed dis-armed and helpless. The epitome of the situation wa6 sounded today bj Enrique E Bowman, Sr., a prominent merchant of Colonia Dtiblan and high church official Ho called a meeting of El Paso business men in the local chamber of commerce building to plan i aid for the helpless ones who flood ' this city. As Bowman began his talk, his voice ? broke and be wept. "We have endured Ipconvenlences , and Indignities and loss," he said. "And now the condition has become Intolerable. We could not fight, we ' had the women and children. I am going back, back to Join my two ? eons." ! Rebels Are Drinking. He told how the rehels have begun to drink heavily and to threaten Americans, saying all who remained ( have ridden on the sidewalks of our little settlements, and we have been ; compelled to take to the streets." City officials of El Paso have hous- ed the refugees in tent9, and city and county physicians are attending the nick The women are used to camp ; life, but their anxiety at leaving behind be-hind their "men folks" occasions scenes of pathos. "They made me leave them." said one woman, referring to her husband and sons The Mormon settlers in Mexico are i the lasi to send their families out of the country They have remained and , l have succeeded in the varying changes i of government to keep on good, terms I with both federals and the many fac- : lions of rebels. They have continued to till their fields and harvest their crops, and while tholr losses have been great, they have succeeded until 1 now in retaining their lands and i homes. ; Orozco la Responsible. Juarez. Mex . July 30. General Pasqual Orozco, commander In chief of the rebels, today admitted that he $ was responsible for the order dls- i arming the MormonB and declared that the United States Is to blame. He takes the grounds that he must have arms and ammunition in some manner and that In taking those of the Americans he Is doing no harm, Tor, he naively says, if the revolution Jf ' has been crushed, as Madero says, there is no need for Americans to be isrmed In Mexico. If the United States will recognize his government, he !-ays, and permit him to import cartridges cart-ridges and a-ms, he will agree to protect pro-tect all foreigners, lie Bays he demonstrated dem-onstrated his abilltv to do bo until the United States shut off his supply of ammunition. May Help Refugees. Washington, July 30. Efforts are being made to have the $1,000,000 unexpended un-expended balance of money appiopn-ated appiopn-ated for the Mississippi flood sufferers suffer-ers diverted by congress for use In relief of the American refugees now Pouring Into El aso from Mexico, |