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Show FEfo ellanr:ot MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18. One hundred hun-dred persons, including the chief of police, wore killed In riots at Puebla today, according to ataterrenta of passengers pas-sengers arriving here tonight. The stories told are tnot the trou-Llo trou-Llo began this morning when several policemen, headed by the chief, attempted at-tempted to break up a meeting of ontl-re-electionlsts being held In a large hall. As Chief of Police Miguel Cabrena and h,is men advanced toward the building a door was opened by woman, who shot the chief. A fight began between the occupants occu-pants and the police and a bomb was thrown from one of the windows Into the midst of the police and rurales, 1 the latter having been called to assist . the officers. The bomb exploded, Willing many. The other casualties j occurred In the course of fighting . which took place in the street. So far , 36 known, there were r.o Americans I' lied. I Tho pascengcrs further asserted that from midnight until they left In the afternoon there was continuous rioting. Fear6 wer0 entertained that the disorders were by no means at an end. From other sources In Mexico City tcnight it was learned that the Seventeenth Seven-teenth battalion left here for Puebla by special train, and that o.ner trains were in readiness to transport additional addi-tional troops to the scene if necessary. neces-sary. It was officially stated here that eighteen men had been killed in Pu ebla. A telegram front Puebla at C: l"i b'ciock t.incht said that at that Moment Mo-ment the Flm regiment cf federal (roopR had arrived, as had ulso a corps j of rurales. These, undei the com- ( i iand of Generals Luis Vnlle and Fdtt- . s.'-c!o Cauz. were being led .i?nlint the bouse in which the rebels were for- tilled and were attacking and fhout- , leg "Iong Live the Supteme govern- I ment." I Keeping Up the Fire. j The Maderolbtas. as Uiy have come , to be known, were keeping up a hot 1 fire from the windows ad balconies. ; A feature of the lighting wfls the part j played by women. The wife of Joe Cc-rdan. who killed the p Mc-man, was li turn killed by the lite or Hoops. I Several other women who vere in the i rouse a!?o are said to hr.ve appeared I on the balcony and taken ;iart In the conflict. When the place was ca-tuied ca-tuied several were found among the dead and wounded. Troops Capture the House. A later dispatch siiid the house had Veen taken by troops aim tha one hundred rllles and a large quantity of ammunition had been captured and that order had been restored. Enrique En-rique C. Creel, pccretiry of loicign iv-lations. iv-lations. at a late hour tonight authorized author-ized the statement that be ha 1 no olficlal Information as to lie number of dead and wounded al Puobia, but. thut many had been killed and that bombs and dynamite hfd been employed em-ployed by the revolutionists. The trouble, he said, was confined to i'ucbla. ' I have had reports from the governors gover-nors of all the state3," h.t j-ald. "and can say positively there is no disturbance disturb-ance anywhere in the republic outside of Puebla." Next Sunday Was the Day. Details of the anti-Diaz conspiracy alleged to have been promoted by r'rancls I M.idro. now fugitive from Mexico, which has resulted within the last two days in ibe arrest ot several sev-eral co-eonsplrators in this city and elsewhere, came '.) light today, Indicating Indi-cating that not Sunday was the date fixed for a general uprising.. The conspirators appeared to have extended their operations to the states of Vera Cruz, Hidalgo, Coahulla. Ran Lu!s Potosl, Puebla. Jalisco, Nuevo Leon. Quanajato. Yucatan r.nd Zatace-t-is. To the authorities in these districts dis-tricts orders have been unt to put down any disturbances. Madero Announces Campaign. Circulars which appear to have been Circulars which appear to have i been sent out by Madero ur hi3 a Re iff I fiom San Antonio to persons In this city outline his campaign and announce an-nounce Madero to be presiJent. Among other statements Is the fol-J fol-J lowing: "I, Francis I. Madero, will j place myself al the head ol a revolu-I revolu-I ilonary parly agalu.-t the government of Mexico. Between the LOlh aud the 30lh of November I shall h ad my followers fol-lowers against the government of y oxico." Of tho men arrested for complicity it: the conspiracy, one, v,he; gave'liin name as Cosio Robelo, can led a com-mlb-slou from .Madero naming him as the governor of the slate of Hidalgo. |
