San Antonio Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 134, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 14, 1914 Page: 1 of 16
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VOLUME XLIX-NO. 134.
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 14, 1914 -SIXTEEN PAGES.
ESTABLISHED 1865.
FEDERAL ARMY WHIPPED, FLEES AS TANPM FALLS
HE heart of Tampico where desperate rifle fighting took place when the Constitutionalists entered the city is shown in upper photograph depicting the customs•
house, plaza, the principal business houses and the view toward the wharves. Here was the tar get for weeks of the Constitutionalist Artillery. The city lies
scarred and blackened by the numerous fires started by the bombardment. The lower pictures show the whar f and terminal facilities. From these railroad yards the
defeated Federals, seeing the city was lost, took trains that had been held in readiness.
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Eliminating National Rights,
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Changes Situation.
HAL STEPS IRE BEGUN
'.amaf and Lehmann Pay Re-
spects to South American En-
voys—Huerta's Representatives
Are Expected to Sail From
Havana Today.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13.—
First formal steps in the program of
mediation in the Mexican problem were
taken here today, when Justice Lamar
and Frederic W. Lehmann, together
Lieutenants Benedict and
Lamme Testify Concern-
ing Ludlow Battle.
FIRE STARTED BY A LAMP
Major Hamrock Is on Trial Be-
fore General Court Martial on
Charges of Murder, Manslaugh-
ter, Arson and Larceny Grow-
ing Out of Battle.
DENVER, Golo., May 13.—Lieuten-
ants R. Benedict and S. J. Lamme of
the Colorado National Guard were
chief witnesses today at the trial of
Major Patrick J. Hamrock before the
with their secretary, H. P. Percival general court-martial at the State rifle
Dodge, who will represent the United range.
States, paid their respects to the three
Continued on Page Two.
INDEX OF THE NEWS
WEATHER ^CONDITIONS.
San Antonio nnd vicinity: Fair today
•Dd Friday.
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The San Antonio Express 1» the only
paper in Southwest Texas carrying the
full dsy and uigbt wire service of the
Associated I'rt'tc everywhere recog
nized ss the greatest news-gatheriug
organization in the world.
PAGE l—KitPs for marine dead marked
by panics in Chicago and Philadelphia.
Tuinpico ftills into Constitutionalist**'
hands as Federals, whipped, flee.
Bald Jack Rose unshaken by live hour
grill by Becker's counsel.
Lamar and Lehmann meet mediators
In f«»riual inauguration of conference.
P.\(>K -Coast country flooded, two nre
drowned and one killed by lightuii/
PAf.i; «—Publicity Lcaguo will Icam Uiiee
booklets advertising city and country.
l>irv« tors Saur and Haiumond resign.
District meetiug of Lutheran synoa
to hold at New Orleans next year.
Mayor Brown promises committee of
peddlers that he will investigate thclt
claim of unfair treatment.
PAGE •—Humors of street railway sale
Increased by coming of gtone 6 Webster
cabinet officer.
PAGE 1#—Waco wins third straight in
series with Bronchos, 5 to 1.
West Texas will meet Marshsll In
Academe League baseball game today.
President Block of local clnb turns
donn off»T from Cincinnati.
Turner Nlnopin League clubs hare long
session.
Another day of rain slows down big
leagues.
PAGE M Colorado automobile tourists to)
stop in San Antonio early next week ti
mute home.
Major Hamrock is being tried on
charges of murder, manslaughter, ar-
son and larceny, growing out of the
battle between strikers and State troops
at Ludlow on April 20 and the subse-
quent fire that destroyed the srikers'
tent colony.
The two officers, who were under orders
of Major Ilamrork on the day of the battle,
swore the fight was started by strikers,
who fired on the National guardsmen;
Major Hamrock was not in the immediate
vicinity of the tent colony when the fire
started; in their estimation the fire was
started by an explosion of an overturned
lamp nnd not by State troops; two women
and eleven children who lost their lives
in the tent colony, they believed, died of
suffocation hours befote ihe fire broke
out.
Lieutenant Lamme. who acted as side
to Major Hamrock during the battle tes-
tified he carried orders from Major Ham-
rock to Captain Edwin S. Carson when
that officer with forty members of Troop
A arrived from Trinidad late in the aft-
ernoon.
"The orders were.** said the witness,
"to advance down the tracks in the dl
recti on of the tent colony to the pump
house where the strikers were entrenched
and 'smoke them out.'"
"Did you understand that order to mean
to set fir*' to the tents?" asked Colonel
Lingenfelter, a member of the court.
"Not at all." replied Laiume; "I con-
strued It to mean he should advance with
a heavv fire and dislodge the strikers."
He declared he heard Major Hamrock
Issue orders to the machine sun operators
telling them to direct their fire at the
pumping house and the rifle pits at the
rear of the tent colony. No orders, he
said, were given to fire on the tents.
Fist fight in Bryan's
Office Routs Peace Dove
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EMERGES FROM FIVE HOURS'
CROSS-EXAMINATION BRIGHT-
EYED AND SMILING.
SAYS CONSCIENCE HURTS
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WASHINGTON. I). C, May IS.—The
dore of |x-arr, minim numerous tall feath-
ers, flew oat of the window of the office
of the Secretary of State today while
Frank N. Rauskctt, one of Secretary
Bryan's aecretarira, nnd Jacob E. Conner,
formerly American Consul at St. Peters-
burg. enraged In a llrely fistic encounter
In Mr. Bryan's anteroom. At the moment,
the Secretary of State and the Minister of
Salvador wer» signing a treaty of peace,
amity and friendship la the next room.
Tbe score was this:
Mr. Banskett—One skinned and braised
nose.
Mr. Conner—Oae blackened eye, with
a suggestion of a braised nose.
Tntll recently. Mr. Conner was conn]
at St. Petersburg. It Is nnderstood that
he was serered from the consular wn|<t
. and that the purpose of his rlslt to tin
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Flrat of the Medina Valley Irrlgaton »«
omoaay cases to be tried at this term ckar-
f mart nanand aCter OI 018 (WWPtIKf.
of court oears end.
To give dty officials more Poem It la
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acter of his sererance.
He was kept waiting and be finally ae-
caan^Mr. Hmskrtt of letting others tnto
NEW YORK, May LT—"Bald Jack"
Hose, chief witness for the prosecution
of tho second trlnl of Chnrlea Becker,
charged with being the Instlgntor of tbe
plot that resulteil In the murder of Her-
man ftoseuthal, caiue from the stand at
the conclusion today of five hours' relent-
less cross-examination, bright-eyed and
smiling. The bald-headed Informer quiet-
ly and unfalteringly answered every ques-
tion asked him by Martin T. Manton,
chief of Becker's couusel.
Even when Manton shouted accusations
of murder at Hose and tried to make him
admit that he had made his living by
couimltitng petty larcenies and bv selling
opium to the slaves of the habit In New
lork's Chinatown the former gambler re-
mained unperturbed.
Kosc's expression never changed during
all tbe grilling. He reiterated his story
of underworld Intrigue and murder show-
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CRUSH SO GREAT IN CHICAGO
AND PHILADELPHIA MANY
ARE INJURED.
STATUE DRAGGED
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REFUGEE FROM MEXICAN CAPI-
TAL DESCRIBES INDIGNITIES
WITNESSED BY HM.
LIONEL CAROEN IS PRAISED
CHICAGO, 111., May 13.—The return to-
day of the body of Samuel Melsenberg, the
young Chicago marine killed at Vera Crux,
was marked by a panic In the City Hall,
where the body lay In utate for three
hours.
So great was the crush to view the cata-
falque In tbe rotunda uf the municipal
building, scores of women fainted, whllt
men, caught In the smothering press, cried
for air. unly tbe names of twelve women
who succumbed were obtained by the po-
lice. but among these was Mrs. Morris
Melsenberg, mother of tbe dead hero.
Cool-headed elevator men did much to
avoid disaster. They opened the doors of
their cages and carried those nearest them
to upper floors while police sought to
quiet those in the corridors and otners at
the entrance fought to restrain tbe thou-
sands who were blocking the streets out-
side, and who Ignorant of the situation
- , Inside made desiierate efforts to crowd In
Ing uo fear, no emotion and no remorse j the doors.
ex**pt on one occasion. Theu ho saltl his j Finally tbe crush became so great Police
conscience prickcd him when he thought i Lleutei'ant James Conroy sent In a riot
over h..w he bad plotted to have Herman
Rosenthal murdered.
ADMITS MI.VOK DISCREPANCIES.
Manton managed to get Hose to admit
that there were minor discrepancies be-
tween tbe testimony he offered at the
first trial and that which he gave on
direct examination yesterday Rose said
his testimony yesterday was more com-
plete in places than his former testtmonv.
At tbe same time he said, he told some
things at the first trial he dtd not men-
Hon at thta one.
"I know so much about It and hare
talked so much about It," said Rose. "It is
impossible for me not to leave something
out now and then."
During the >-rosa-examlnatlan Manton
put questions t« Rose which were de-
signed to show tbat Rosenthal figured
liromlnently in a gamblers' war and was
sated. Rose admitted that Kan Paul, a
gambler, and Rosenthal had a falling not
soon after tbe latter'a house was raided.
Rose also said Roseatral hired "Spanlah
Loale" to kill Sam Paul- "I/oale" failed
to do it. He told Rosenthal, according ts
Roae, tbat PmI M given kta fit and
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call and the reinforcements succeeded In
restoring order. A photographer who ex-
ploded a flash llgbt powder la said to
have contributed largely to tbe dlao;
The funeral will be held with ,
rites tomorrow. Addresses will he mad«
by t'nlted States Senator Lewis, Governor
Dunne and Mayor Harrison.
PHILADELPHIA,""Ps.. May IS.—A mat
tit ode today hoaared the two aoaa of
Philadelphia who died at Vera Craa,
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Oearge McKenate Poinsett of the battle
ship Florida and Charles Allen Smith of
the New Hampshire. Nearly 78,000 per-
sona paid tribute to tbcm as their bodies
lay Ik atate In historic Independence Hall
and band reds of thou«and* lined the three
mile funeral (ante.
It wna tbe greatest public funeral held
In Philadelphia since Abraham Lincoln's
body tajr In atate In Independence Hall. So
great waa tbt crash of people scores of
women fainted and many were Treated for
minor Injuries. Two men were seriously
Injured, one of whom probably will die.
Tbe fmoral pageant was nearly an boar
Included a thousand bine
from the Philadelphia
That the United States could take the
City of Mexico and every other city in
Mexico without any trouble In tbe event
of war Is the assertion of George W.
Dnknn, who hns returned from the Mexi-
can capital, but, he said, the pacifytug
of the people of Mexico Is another ques-
tion.
"This, It seems to me," he said, "would
take at least five years, and prove one
of the hardest Jobs Uncle Sam ever
tackled. It would mean a guerrilla war
Iti which the Utoltod States troops might
be at a sore disadvantage, since tha Mexi-
cans kuow every bill and ravine, which
would afford biding places from which
to pick off the American aoldlera."
Mr. Dakon, whose home ts at W*> Den-
ver Boulevard, was connected with tbe
National Railway of Mexico aa secretary
to the Industrial agent, and like other
employes and officials of this line be had
to resign, natlres now holding these of-
fices.
Mr. Dakon was an eyewitness to the
desecration of tbe Washington statue,
which the American colony bad presented
to the people of Mexico. I' was the eve-
ning of April 23, he said, when 3.000
Mexicans swarmed the street, nnd tore
the statue from its pedestal An English-
man. whose name was not learned, stood
before Ihe Inflamed crowd and with raised
hand implored them to desist, but they
swept him a aide and made for the statue.
One of their number, Jose t'alderon hy
name, then ascended the bronae figure
of tbe father of the American Nation with
a rope and placed a noose aroond the
naek. Another followed, and still an-
other. These ropes were then attached
to di automobiles, provided by Jorge
Hnerta, son of the dictator, and the mi-
chinea, palling In one direction at a given
signal, succeeded In bringing the figure
to tbe ground. This done, the figure
wna dragged through the streets for about
eighteen blocks, and thrown In front of
the Juar*a stataa.
Mr. Dakoa la
Mr. Dakoa la hteh In his praise of
British minister. Sir Lionel Tardea,
tbe Interest be manifested In the well
of the
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— the welfare
w Americana. He arranged to take the
Americans oat of the country after
^Sbaagbneaay and Shanklln had left
npnh reeetrtnjg thalr passports. He said
the Americana ware always wekeias at
altam toe i aiiaaeipaia the Sritlah aahaaaU-aad that aceammo-
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LAST STAND
OF HUERTA'S
MEN DOGGED
Constitutionalist Riflemen Carry Fight-
ing to Heart of City While Artil-
lery Shells the Outskirts.
CAPTURE CONFIRMED BY MAYO
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Admiral Reports Garrison Retreating by Railroad
Toward San Luis Potosi, From Where, It Is As-
sumed, They Hope to Reach Pachuca, Termi-
nus of Line Leading Indirectly to the City of
Mexico, Enemy Holding All Other Lines.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13.—Evacuation of Tam-
pico by the Mexican Federal garrison began at 12:50 p.
today, according to a relayed wireless dispatch to the Navy
Department from Rear Admiral Mayo. The Federal troops
were leaving by the railroad.
That the Constitutionalists encountered desperate re-
sistance in their final attack and that they were compelled
to carry their fight to the heart of the town was Indicated by;
Rear Admiral Mayo's report.
He reported that at 1 o'clock the Constitutionalists had
occupied Tampico. There was heavy rifle fighting in the
plaza and that big gun firing continued in the outskirts of
the city.
Advices received by Constitutionalists here said that
the Federals were evacuating Tampico, but details were
lacking.
The Federals were retreating by the railroad leading
toward San Luis Potosi and it was assumed they hoped to
reach Pachuca, the terminus of a railway line that leads
indirectly to the City of Mexico. The railroad out of Tam-
pico to Monterey is held by the Constitutionalists.
Admiral Mayo reported to the Navy Department to-
night that at 2 p. m. today the Mexican Federal gunboats
Bravo and Zaragosa steamed out of the Panuco River and
anchored near the foreign warships outside. The gunboats
have been the chief support of the garrison.
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, May 13.—The fall of Tampico and what
it may mean is tbe subject of general speculation here. It is learned
that the Constitutionalists delivered a determined atack on the port
beginninf at 4 o'clock this morning. The Federal advance posts ware
driven in and until noon desperate firing was continuous.
Direction of Flight in Doubt
In what direction the Federals are evacuating the town has not
been learned, but it is believed that the Constitutionalists have over*
run the territory around San Luis Potosi and Monterey, which would
make Federal escape in that direction possible only by a continuoua
running fight for many milesj
Few, if any, foreigners remain in Tampico, according to the best
reports received here. A general exodus began when the news spread
that the Constitutionalists were preparing for a final assault. Many
Tampico refugees passed through here, but few were allowed ashore,
ta the American authorities were not willing to increase the larg»
colony already overcrowding the hotels.
With the fall of Tampico hostilities on the gulf coast of Mexico
came to an end. at least for a time.
The Federals are maintaining the armistice so far as the Ameri*
cans are concerned, according to a note from General Rubio Navar*
rette, published here today. Nowhere else along the coast line except
at Tampico are there more than scattered posts of Federals or
atitatioaalists and the logical movement of the victor* from'
v««M be to join forcaa with those beskgiag San Lai*
•f Tasptoe the neareet Frdofrl let
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