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Show MEXICO IS IN REVOLT Federal Army Split Sudden Attack Puts Diaz in Control , Mexico City Feb 9 Revolt of the larmy in connection with a thoroughly planned not of revolution caused i sudden attack on the military prison this morning, the release of General Felix Dir. and General Bernardo lies li-es and a subsequent storming of the palace Uia was under sentence of death for leading ihe Insurrection al Vera Cruz; Reyes was captured while en deavorlng to foment another insurrection insurrec-tion and It was while In Jail that they p mned I he present uprising Reyes within an hour of his release :is dead killed in the attack on the I palace Dlas, nephen of the greai Porflrlo Former president holds half of the city, backed by almost aa many so! Idlers as the president can control Madero after a series of four bat ties Si the palate gates. Is holding the rest of the city Panic Reign?. I The populace is in turmoil, no' I knowing whither to turn. Two hundred hun-dred soldiers and citizens were slairtj In the days fighting Four hundred at least were wounded Tonight the president's family has ' taken refuge in the Japanese legu lion. I Americans and other foreigners have barricaded their homes or have sought the strongest houses of the I diplomatic corps. The storm broke without warning Fven the official spies had no intlrai-tlon intlrai-tlon of the impending attack A corps of artillery with machine cuns clattered boldly down the main street In the morning and went into action in front of the military prison. Threats were enough Wardens yield ed Diaz and Reyes who were under sentence of death for participating In previous attacks on the new government. govern-ment. Diaz Takes Command. Diaz immediately look command I amid the cheers of his rescuers. Reyes was at his side They moved at the 'head of soldiers numbering 1000 and a mob of five limes lhat number to 1 1 he palace General Villar at Madero's lelt hand, fell with a shot wound in his side Ten or a dozen of the Qthet officers fell under the fusillade. Bev eral were killed. The mutineers and the mob moved thence to the treasury building It is reported that the were successful in storming It and that they secured the gnater portion of the government I rcasure. Madero HeadB Troops. They returned to ib palace and re nowed the attack The president bad left OD advice of friends, but suddenly Ihe appeared al the head of an a nn - I force riding from Ihe other end of the city. He was on a gray horse and daslv5'! against his en hps' machine guns i with an almost reckless abandonment of life There was a third and even :i fourth attack on the palace by Diaz' sympathisers, sympa-thisers, but the guards had been trebled treb-led and the guns could only break window s One by one the government buildings build-ings were i.iken by the revolution ims The sin render of the troops in the arllller luiTiu kb seemed 10 sound the final doom of the administration And yet, Madero is frighting In front of a loyal legion never before equaled In Central America The mutinous troops were followed! to the prison by the students of the military si hoed at Tialpam There I was no resistame The oming forth j of Reyes and Diaz was the signal for a demonstration of enthusiasm Diaz, was the man who started the revolt hi en Cruz Rex es was the leaih r of the uprising In the capital c:lt t year ago The death of the latter with B bullet through his head was the catastrophe of Ihe first approach on the palace n Incensed his followers follow-ers so that there was no more thought of calm arbitrament. Scores of bodies strewed the 6treets around the palace after the first engagement There wore women I nd I hildren among the dead. The1 first of the -lead were soldiers of the niut Ineers' a I mj The mlnlatei of war General Garcia Gar-cia Bena, was shot in the head Two American women were killed in the slaughter In the Zocala but dlligen Inquiry has failed to Identify them. An armistice was agreed upon dur :ug the afternoon between the opposing oppos-ing forcen It ended at 5:3i this even- ing, with no oncluslon betiiK reached A t this hour fi p. ni General Dia: haa about 3000 men and nil ihe heavy artillery in the city This shows that the revolutionary leader is gaining re emits rapidly. President Madero at the national palace has a few detachments of vol urteers and a few police He has however, a large number of machine guns. Many Mexicans wire killed in front I of the arsenal, when the armistice) ended the federals firing ihelr ma-chine ma-chine guns Into the detiRp crowd, who! though) the armistice had been continued con-tinued in force. General Beltrrn Is reported to be! hastening to 1 he citv with 8000 men to help President Madero A large number of Zapatistas 'ire reported to be on the edge of the can ital awaiting orders from General Diaz I Gustavo Madero is reported lol I have been taken prisoner by the reb els who intend to hold him as a host age |