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Show I UK oo I RIOTING IN I CHIHUAHUA "Vivas" For Felix Diaz Revolution Heard on All Sides of City Bl El Paso. Texas. Feb 12 Riotlnc m H broke out last night In Chihuahua a City, the rioters shouting vivas" for 8 Felix Diaz revolution, say passengers who arrived here early today from tl e state capital. It was not learned J whether the federal garrison has re-Pa&sengera re-Pa&sengera reported that aa the train passed through Chihuahua a surging sur-ging mob filled the streets. Volleyi of shots wre heard from the direction direc-tion of the interior of the city Chihuahua Is the headquarters of General Antonio Rtbago, federal com- i mander of the northern milit;ir zone, (and 2000 federal troops are stationed there Telegraph Lines Censored No account of the Chihuahua outbreak out-break has been conveyed oer the1 .'v-legraph lines, which are strictly cen-sored) cen-sored) and the federal commander at luarez denies all knowledge of the : affair The passenger train arriving htre: today brought 2')0 American refugees, most of them from the Casas Gran-des Gran-des district. The passengers repo: tl that near Moelezuma, on the Mexi n. enlral an attempt was made by luul rebels to dynamite the train. The dynamite dy-namite was discovered on the tr. however, by the small body of troops guarding the train A skirmish ie- I twecn the troops and the would-tej dynamiters resulted in the capture or eight rebels, one of whom Is a Swetle from the United States The rest cf the revolutionists fled. Anxiety for Colonists Telegraphic communication below luarez was cut late this morninc Much anxiety is felt here for the safetv of the laree American colon-at colon-at the state capital which normallv Is a city of 20;00fi inhabitants, more than 2,000 of which are foreigners. |