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Show HUNDREDS FLEE I FROMJAZATLAN I Fall of City Seems Imminent, H Is Wireless Message From Kp Steamship California. flti ll THREE-DAY BATTLE Mp Many Narrow Escapes Mex- B ican Federals Fire Shots ;LKg Across Decks of British Ejj?. Steamer. E On Hoard 0 S S California. Ha zatlan. Mex., May 18 (By Wireless Lw to San Diego, May 9). The fall of K"'V Masatlan seems to be Imminent. The city officials embarked last night on HuV the federal gunboat Guerrero and the steamer Limantour, both of which are Br-'' ready to sail for Sallna Crui. H The federals have abandoned the I I gunboat Morelos. WL' A w ild shot from the Guerrero to- BEL day passed through a street of the lg city, creating a panic As a result of a three-day battlp. H? the townspeople are in a state of Kfc terror and hundreds are fleelnsr. aV It is reported that ('. B. Helley, an I American and G. H. Williams, an H. Englishman, were killed and two oth- mt I er Americans, Walter Neal and Pat- H rlck Baird, wounded near El Favor V ... mine in the vicinity of Hostatiaquillo. .1 Refugees from Manzanillo told mt stories of narrow escapes when they arrived here ton fhe British steamer Cetriano. which was made Into a reiu- W gee ship at the Instance of the com- war. " mander of the German cruiser, Nuren- bun;. The ( etrlano came up the He' coast from Manai.illo aud sailed to-day to-day for S m Francisco with 10ft refu- g ea including American Consul Ed- Hw ' Mexicans Burn Pier Hu. While the (Vtriaoo was at the dock In MansanlllflJ harbor, according to Captain Minister, the vessel's com- By mander. and Consul Edwards, the Br Mexican federals set fire to the pier with oil, and then resorted to dyna- f&. mite to make the destruction more Bp. certain. Some of the last of the refu- .ft--gees to reach the vessel made their way to safety only at Imminent risk R? The Cetriano got clear of the burn- flf ing pier with much difficulty, and as ffist she was swinging out into the stream, a number of shots were fired across BB'' her decks from the shore Nobody E' was hit. The timely arrival of the K' cruiser Raleigh put an end to the fir- Having Hav-ing and to the depredations of the Kp. Mexicans along the watertront. Strategic points have been estab- BPV llshed on Observatory Hill and Ores- K? ton Island. In Mazatlau harbor Ik Obregon Expresses Regret General Obregon, the constitution- mf-alls! mf-alls! commander, has expressed to Admiral Howard his deep regret that w non-combatants should have been kill- ed by the unintentional dropping o; w' a bomb from a military aeroplane k while circling above the city. JL By order of Huerta. lighthouse scrv- W-ice W-ice un the west coast of Mexico has-be. has-be. n abandoned, and the coast lasl night was In darkness. t Phe American brig C.tneva was c.p- F' tured on the high seas April Jo by K; the Mexican transport Korrtgan, ac- JL.'- cording to information received here R: today. At the demand, however, or p - Captain Magruder of the United fc' States cruiser Raleigh, the brig was V. reh aded. Eg" '- Washington, D. C. May 9 Reports r'i that Mazatlan, on the west coast of ft Mexko, had fallen into the bauds or - the constitutionalists were denied to 4 day in a message received at the navy ft d( i tmeht from Admiral Howard. jr-, |