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1.5 REFUGEES POUR INTU
VERA CRUZ WITH STORIES
OF TORTURE BY MEXIGANS
By THOMAS P. COATS.
special Correspondent of the Interna
tional News Service,
VERA CRUZ, April 28 -Grapnic
stories of suffering and narrow es
cape from denth were told here |;.-l
day by American refugecs from in-|
terior points of Mexico, Prow!ling
vands of Mexican Federals, rebels and 1
robbers took turns at inflictiug out- 1
rages upon the persons and property
of foreigners. l
A trein bearing American and other
foreign refugees from Mexico ity
wa reported missing to-day, but Rear
Admiral I°. ¥, Fletcher hopes that the
tralp was switched upon the tracks
leading to Puerto Mexico at Cordoba
An attache of the British Consulate,
who Jeft for Mexico ity last night
reported by telegraph that he h;ul]
found no trace of the missing refugee
train, which strengthened the |..-'|<-r1
that it was switched to another divi
gion. If the train had heen wrecked,
traces of the outrage would have been
found
Foreigners Jailed. 1
The refugees tell u story of mid
night raide b bande of armed anpd
mounted outiaws, of incendlary fires
of death threats inflicted alike upon
men, women and children, of arrests,
brutality and outrages,
The latest bateh of retygees from
interior points numbered 130 IPour
teen came from EI Petroro. 68 from
Colonin Media, 20 from Tietra Blan
co, 8 from Motzorongoe, 5 from Visia
Hermosa and the rest from Cordoba,
where the jall has been crowded with
forelgn prigsoners for weeks.
These points le along the westera
border of the State of Vera (‘ruz and
im Oaxaca. The journey of the home
less wanderers was one of constant
hardships
Gaunt mep and women 1l from
lack of food and from thirst and ex
posure, were compelled to stagger
through a six-mile desert, where their
flesh was torn by the sharp barbs of
the cactus, because the railroad tracks ’
had been torn up by the Mexicans.
Children Suffering.
Bome of the familles were sccon
panied by sunken-eyed, pale-faced
ohildren, whose bodies were racked
with fever and pain from the suffer
ings of the journey
When the vanguard of this starving
horde arrived on the outskirts, a spe
oial train was hastily made up and
dispatched 1o plek up the stragglers,
In the group were twenty Amertean
women, a number of them carrying
bables slung over their shoulders in
shawls—papoore fashion |
Those of the refugees who came
from (ordoba sald that the Ameri
cans in that disirlct had been treated
with marked brutality by the Mexi
can Federals, especially after the cap
tyre of Vera (‘ruz by United States
gailors and marines was announced.
Federal soldiers rounded up 40
American men, women and children,
drugging them from ranches, planta
tions 2nd mining camps, and threw
them into jail at Cordoba
Federals Raid Saloons.
*Why are we being arrested ™
asked the Americans
But the only reply they got wasg a
volley of curses and insults
The Federals ralded saloons, and,
inflamed with the flery satol and mes
cal, threatened to wreak the most in
human barbarities upon the helpless
captives.
It was a favorite action of the
drunken em!orn to parade through the
jail corridors with loaded muskets,
present their weapons at the breast
of a prisoner and then pretend to puil
the trigger. Women screamed and
fainted at the sight of these brutali
ties which Insplred the Mexicans to
fresh modes of torture,
Prison guards, sodden and flendish
with llquor, took delight in standing
at the cell bars hurling obscene epi
thets and coarse, vile witticisms at
the American women. The American
men were helpless to stop these in
sults. The only thing they could do
was to hope that the Federals would
relent or that an Amerfcan rellef ex
pedition would be sent to save them
Prisons Wers Filthy.
The jaills in which the prisoners
were kept would have shamed the
notorious prisons of the Middle Ages.
The floors and walls reeked with filth
of many years’ accuraulation. There
were no windows and in damp sed
sons a green slime ran down the
stone walls and gathered in stagnant
pools upon the floor Rats scurried
through the cells in armies and the
food was rotten and stunk with ver
min
The water was flljed with wriggling
things There were no heds and no
fire. The captives bad to sleep upon
the floor. They conuld not bathe and
thelr only means of passing the time
was to talk with such hopefulness as
m-"y could among themselves
The “pallets” provided for the com
fort of the prironers consisted of a
handful of damp rotting straw,
which, during the heat of the day,
gave off an almost unbearable stench
In some instances men wWere
dragped away from their plantations
their families being left behind un
protected, for the peon ranch hands
could not be trusted to make any
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spirited defense against handit foravs ]
Women Most Courageous. ;
In all such instances the women
behaved with commendable courage,
barricading their homes and going
anhout thelr dutles with a rifle close
at hand '
Mrx. H., Riley, the wife of an]
American who was employed as 9|
railway conductor on the National
Hnes, one of the refugees, told Ih-‘i
following story: §
“Practically all or the American
men were taken from their ranches
in the gouthwestern part of this State |
(Vera ('ruz) and put in prison |
“With the men out of the way, the
foraging bands would wander through i
the ranch houses at will, plundering
them of all valuable possessions. The
safes in the ranch offices were gen- |
erally cast into ox-drawn carls and
carried 1o the nearest :mulr-nwm.l
where they were dynamited. Then
would begin a squabble among the
men over a division of the gpoils. |
These quarrels often resulted lin
murder, but murder had lost all its
grewsome aspects among those people
hecause it was so,common.
Mob Rule Holds Sway, i
“If the slightest protest was made
the Mexicans arrested whaole famil
jes without discrimination. 1 know |
of sixty-three Americans being ivn-]
prisoned at Tlerra Blanca For a
time mob rule held sway there, unrll
it may have been a good thing that
the Americans were behind the prn-‘
tection of stone walls, even if these
were prison walls.
“When we came through from ('ol
onia Medina, the women were all
herded in a coal car and the men
were placed upon ‘flat’ cars, The coal
carg were meant to glve ug protec
tion for they had wooden walls
sheathed with sheet fron, which would
have acted as armor against rifle
bullets directed against the train
“Many of the women had left their
homes upon a minute’'s notice, leav
ing ali thelr possessions hehind. Some
were In thefr bare feet, A few of
the children were clothed so scantily
thev might as well have been stark
naked.
; Woman Put in Jail.
“Among the women prisoners in the
It‘urdobu juil was Mrs. Sidney M.
mery, of Vista Mosa. Her home
was attacked by Federals one night
and looted Mrs. Emery was forced
to arige from her bed, and elad only
in & viding skirt, get upon wu lod‘
horse, Carrying her young baby in
her arms she was forced to ride {nr‘
six hours. |
“Arriving at Cordoba, she was cast
into jail. She begged for more cloth
ing, but it was refused. She asked
for bhetter guarters than the foul ili
smelling cells, because she feared for
her baby's life, but her request Was
spurned, :
“After she had been Kept in the
Cordoba jall for five days, she man
wged to bribe the Mexican authorl
tles to take her to Tierra Blanca. Bhe
told them where $5OO wase hidden at
her home and was transferred afier
a party of Mexican officials went and
found the money,
Get Money on Threats.
“One of the chief sources of income
for the Mexican bands, Federals and
rebels alike, was the levying of trib
ute,
“A party of Mexicans would ride up
to a plantation and the leader of tho
troops would first demand foed, drink
and clothing. Then he would inspect
the ranch and comment upon “he
worth of the buildings, the live storg
and the crop. Then he would come
with the offer
“qf you do not pay us 1060 pesos,
we will burn yvour ranch butldings ani
destroy your crops, the commander
would say
“There would be nothing to do but
consent. ‘The blackmail was baciod
up by rifles in the hands of a dozen
cutthroats, who had more respect tor
the lfte of a horse than that of a
human being. A horse to them had
some use in the work.”
Peons Start War.
Another of the woman exiles wag
Mrs. Bldney Wunsch, of Motzorongo,
where the Mortzorongo Plantation
Company of Chicago has extensive
possessions. She sald:
“My mother-in-law, Mrs KEdward
Mesch, myself and my S-month-oli
baby passed through a nightmare he
fore we fled. The peons of the dis
trict, tuking advantage of the disor
der. armed themselves and began a
war of their own, holding up the
ranch owners for blackmall and loot
ing property.
“They had been downtredden so
long that their sudden liberty seemad
to madden them, and their license
knew no bounds. ‘They held the dis
trict 'n a reign of terror, and when
some slight attempt was made (o
drive them away. they fled into the
mountains where they Knew every trail
and pags, and remained hidden for a
few days: then returned to their
depredations™
Trouble on Trains.
The adventures and exclting es
capes of the refugees did not end
when they boarded trains for the
coast
At Paso del Macho, a refugee train
was stoned by a mod or drunken
Mexicans and they were only pre
vented from opening fire upon it be
cause they had no weapong save long
knives, used upon sugar plantations
for cutting cane
Eighty-three Ameiican refugees are
reported to have concentrated on the
San Juan plantation, near Cuatotola
pan., in the western part of this
Ktate (Vera Cruz), but latest reports
received from that district by W, W
l(‘unndu the United States Consul,
were that quiet prevalled. However,
'l', fles in the path of the guerrilla
'huluhs which have heen striking ter
ror elsewhere (n that section of the
l.\"u(e and there s uncertainty over
the uitimate fate of the refugees
The Latest Refugees, .
Among the latest batell of Amert
oan refugees from the western part
| of the State of Vera CUruz are the fol
-5 lowing
1 M. S Colfax of Washington: E B
| Lorido of New QOrleans: W F Kunz
{wr’ Chicago; John B Lea of New Ory
“.'-.ms, William D. Hill of Galveston;
{ John W. Sargent of Duluth, Minn
Dempster (¢ Disbrow and Mary Dis
hrow of Svracuse, N Y A M Tur
ner of Chicago; 8 M. Emeny and
i Mrs Emery of Memphis Tem ¥
I D mk of Pittsbure: ¥ W. Lehm
of Omaha N D I W Sargen?
if Laoawe \ = 8 lant
Topeks, Kun A A Kuch Cak
dland, Ca
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Special to The Atlanta Georgian.
THI ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS,
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' nize Dictator in Negotiations, i
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| four women and eight children ;m‘kwlj
%‘xxn at Puerto Mexico These refugees
1..r~ reported well The Oregonian “l]!‘
| land the refugees at Delaware Break
water unless she recelves further or
| ders
7,000 Club Women i
Volunteer as Nurses. ‘
| WASHINGTON. Apri) 29 \'nmn!‘.lm»r-‘
ing for any capacity in which 'lm\‘!
might be used, seven thousand members
‘t.l the Federation of Women's Clubs t...i
{day offered their services to the Red.
l"‘:u)fi in the Mexican troubles Mrs, |
| Klis J.ogan, president of the federation,
| made the offer to Miss Mabel Board-|
'm;clL actlve head of the Red Cross
| The first organization to offer finan
cial aid was the soldlers and sallors
;luan- b of the Women's Christian Tem
| perance Union This branch sent $lOO
' to Miss Boardman in the care of its
president. Mra. Thatcher, who contrib
uted another $lOO herself
|Betra,yer of U. 8. Code
|On Refugee Ship.
| GALVESTON, April 29.—Held on
|m~am the battleship Connecticut with
bOO other quarantined Ameriean refu
gees 18 a man who Government officlals
belleve has been the cause of a leak In
the Government private code. The man,
a former Government employee. was In
dicted at l.aredo on a charge of betray
ing Government secrets and escaped
across the horder to Mexico. At present
Federal officials can not act against him
because of the Texas quarantine laws.
It is learned that the missing Govern
ment private code book was intercepted
||n the malls going from a battleship,
This may solve the mystery of the pos
session by Mexico of the Government
code, which has been giving American
| officers keen concern
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‘NEW YORK COTTON.
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f()pon,l{iglbu)w; Call | Close
Aoy, il iialia 12.79-81
May 12.60,12.6012.7/12.59112.62-64
June § i e IR BT e
July L112.42112.48!12.42(12.48(12.46-46
August 14.82/12.83/12.31{12.811%.30-81
Bavk . it i v .. 11.84-86
Qet, . 11.70i11.78/11.70!11.78{11.71-72
Dec 11.73.11.76{11.78{11.7611.71-72
Jan, . . .11.6911.6911.89/17.6911.66-67
March 11.78/11.78/11.78111.78{11.74-76
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
Futures opened steady
Op'ing Prev
uunse 2P.M. Close
April E 7.01 -7.01% 7.01 7.02
April-May 690 6.90 6.911%
May-June. 6891, 6,90 690 6.911 y
June-July 6.5 6.82%
July-Aug 6.771%-6.78 6.77 6.79
Aug. -Dep .64 -6.63% . 6.65%
Sept. -Oct 644 -6.48% 6.44 6.4 b%
Oct.-Noy 6334 6.34 8,354
Nov.-De 62715-6.27 6..9
Dec.-Jan ¢ 6.27
Jan.-KFeb 6.26 6.20% 6.20% 6.27
Feb. -Mch 6 26 3 6.27%
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May . .[12.90/12.90(12,.90{12.50{12 88-89
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July 12.74/12.76(12.74{12.76(12.73-74
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Dec . .11.78111.78i11,78111.73/11.70-71
Jan < ; o 2 SRS 11.72-73
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10 Prev.
STOCKS - High. Low AM. Close
Amal. Copper.. Ti% % 2% 3
American Can, 26% 261, 2614 37
Amer. Smeit. 618 81% 6l 61
Atlantic C. L. 120 120 120 118
B. and O 901, BOY W Goty
Beth. Steel 404, 408 408 40
Can. Pacifie... 182 191 183 1911%
Cen. Leather. 35% 364 353 614
& and O .. BS B2y allg 52'%
Col. Pet.. 2k 2R 3% 23
Corn Products 9% avg 91y 9
Pen and R. Gll 1% 11y 11
Eris. o .21 2R TN 2T
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G.oN Q.O 83 32 32 304,
Interboro . MY 144 14 i
do pfd. ..... 60% 60% 60% 601 1
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Mex. Pet.. a 7 56 568 H 47
Missouri Pac.. 174§ 7 17% 17
N. Y. Central. 90\ 807% 833 R 9%
New Haven hile 69l B¥ig By
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Reading 1621 y 1634 1821 y 1621 y ‘
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| Bt. Panl 98% 8% 8% R 9% |
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WARHINGTON, Aprii 28 —Upon the|
| jolnt recommendation of Secretaries,
| Lane and Garrison. the President has'
| withdrawn four tracts of pubiic land in
\laska for military reservations The
S ATe on the \laskan COast and
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WASHINGTON April 20,~Tne
rebel attack on the city of Tampico
continues, according to a report re
ceived from Admiral Mayo this morn
ing. It is rumored in Tampico that
foreigners are to be disarmed. Ad
miral Mayo has made arrangements
for a party of Americans, numbering
120, now at Cervantes, to work their
way down the river to La Barra,
where he will take them on board,
with the assistance of Captain Dough
ty, of the Hermoine, They will ar
rive May 3 or 4 at La Barra.
VERA CRUZ, April 29.—An uncon
firmed report received here from Cor
doba says that six of the Americans
taken by the Federals have been ex
ecuted. Admiral Fletcher is investi-
X-tmq. The report adds that 48 more
mericans have been arrested, mak
ing 84 Americans said to be in prison
there,
WASHINGTON, April 29.—The
Navy Department this morning re
ceived a report from Admiral Badger
saying that the Hancock will leave
Vera Cruz to-day for Puerto Mexico
to take on board the 600 refugees re
ported to be on their way to that
place from Mexico City and the dis
trict along the railway from Mexico
City to ruerto Mexico. Admiral
Craddock has notified Admiral Badger
by wireless that General Ribon, of
the Mexican army, has absolutely
guaranteed the safe embarkation of
the American refugees on board the
Hancock along the wharf at Puerto
Mexico,
VERA CRUZ, April 29.—1 t is per
sistently rumored that nineteen
Americans gathered in the town of
Tiera Blanca had a fierce fight with
mobs in the center of the town. Sev
eral are reported killed. Four Amer
icans who have arrived at Tiacoltal
pan from a sugar plantation at Playa
Vicente tell of being driven into a
iungle to avoid mobs, They say that
after their guns had been taken from
them by rebels they wandered, starv
ing, unable to kill game.
WASHINGTON, April 29—A. E.
Wallace, International News Service
g_hotoqrapher. missing for ten days ‘n
ampico, arrived in Vera Cruz late
yesterday, aceording to a dispatch
from Rear Admiral Badger this morn
ing. Admiral Badger reports that the
wounded aboard the Solace are hold
ing all they have gained, and that
critical cases are more hopeful. The
wounded on the New Hampshire,
Florida and Chester are doing well.
WASHINGTON, April 23.—The
traneport Saltillo, escorted by tne
Henley and Warrington, is expected
to arrive at Vera Cruz by dayli ht.
MEXICO CITY, April 29.—Danger
of a reign of terror and murder
threatens tne city. Huerta's agents
have uncoveed several plots to drive
the dictator from Chapultepec, and
the situation is serious.
WASHINGTON, April 29,—General
Carranza is reported to have blocked
the mediation plans by sending a note
to the United States in which he says
that he is not disposed to give his ap
proval to any measures that contem?
plate a compromise with Huerta, or
which will limit his freedom of ac
tion in carrying on the revolution.
This report came as a surprise, as The
El Paso Times, in an early edition
to-day, declared that Villa and Car
ranza had arrived at an understand
ing whereby the Constitutionalists
would take the position of spectators
of the contest between this country
and Huerta, as long as the United
States did not invade Constitutional
ist territory.
CHIHUAHUA, April 29.—General
Enrique Perez, commander cf the
Federal forces driven from Monterey
by General Pablo Gonzales and his
Constitutionalists, has been killed in
battle at Marcia, below Monterey, ac
cording to an official report received
by General Carranza to-day. Two
hundred other Federal troops were
killed. The Constitutionalists cap
tured 300,000 rounds of ammunition,
mountain guns and other war muni
tions, along with a quantity of Fed
eral bagoage.
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JTATE T 0 FGHT
NEW AFFIDAVIT
FOR FRANK
Solicitor Dorsey Gathers Evidence
to Attack Story of Negroes
That Conley Confessed.
Solicitor Hugh Dorsy Wednesda_v‘
declared that he had not yet declded
whether he will ask Judge Ben Hill
to reconvene the hearing of the ex
traordinary motion for a new trial for
L.eo Frank Thursday morning, instead
of Friday. He stated that his course
in this regard will depend upon de
velopments of the day.
“If the Ragsdale evidence is elimi
nated,” Mr. Dorsey said, “we may be
ready to proceed with the case Thurs
day, but something might happen lhat‘
will keep us from being ready with
our counter showing until Friday.” |
Solicitor Dorsey has been w«)rking‘
on the preparation of his counter
showing, aided by several attorneys
and half a dozen detectives, since the
hearing was postponed hy .ludge\
Hill. Solicitor Dorsey asked a post
ponement after the defense intro
dyced affidavits from the Rev. (. B.
Ragsdale and R. L. Barber, who as
serted that they heard Jim Conley
confess to the murder of Mary Pha
gan.
Solicitor Plans Fight.
It is understood, although the So
licitor would not admit it, that he
contemplated making a fight against
Judge Hill's action in acceding to the
request of attorneys for the defense
that the affidavits of Ragsdale and
Barber be expunged from the ex
traordinary motion, which was done
Tuesday, after Ragsdale repudiated
the affidavit and declared that it was
a “frame-up.” Barber also says his
story was “molded.”
Attorneys for Frank declare that
they weve deceived by Ragsdale and
Barber, and that they accepted the
affidavits of the two men in good
faith. Both the preacher and Bar
ber gave Frank's attorneys numer
ous aflidavits from reputable citi
zens, vouching for them, among them
being one from Dr. John E. White,
pastor of the Second Baptist Church.
Dr, White has issued a statement
in which he says he did not know
of the nature of Ragsdale's testi
mony, but made the affidavit at the
request of a detective of the Burns
agency, becauge Ragsdale was in
'good standing in the Baptist C"hurch
and he had always thought him to
Le of good character.
Neither Solicitor Dorsey nor any
of his staff would give any inkling
'of what they are doing to combat the
evidence of Anna Maud Carter, the
negro woman who asserts Conley
confessed to her. It was intimated,
however, that the Solicitor s in
possession of important evidence to
contradict the woman's story.
An echo of the Ragsdale end of the
cage will be heard at the Plum Street
Baptist Church Thursday night, when
a committee from the membership of
the church will make ‘a full report
of their investigation into the preach
er's aflidavit. The committee is
composed of Frank A. Smith, W. R.
Beattie, Charles G. Wheeler, J. E.
Dobbs, T. B. Dobbs and Rev. J. W.
Cartin.
The committee called on Rev. Mr.
Ragsdale Monday night, and at that
time thoe preacher tendered his res
ignation as pastor of the church The
committee refused to state whether
it would be accepted. The church
will take action on the matter Thurs
day night, following the report of
the committee on the alleged “frame
up.”” Members of the committee stat
ed Wednesday that Barber is not a
member of the Plum Street (Church.
CHATTANOOGA, April 29.—The
trustees of the University of Chatta
nooga this afternoon elected the Rev.
Dr. Frederick W. Hixson, of Craw
fordsville, Ind., as president, to suc
ceed the Rev. Dr. J, H. Rice, resigned,
to become identified with the Meth
odist Episcopal Publishing House.
DENVER, April 20.—Elas M. Am
mons, Governor of Colorado, has turned
poet. Here is his first, called “The
Spirit of the West";
The spirit that conquered the desert
And made it rich with grain;
That sailed the peaks of the moun
tains,
Their hidden treasure to gain;
That chiseled through rocky gorges
The paths to the parks of rest
"Tis the spirit of Colorado,
The spirit of the West.
The spirit that builded an empire,
And makes for the public weal;
That thrillB our hearts with courage
And patriotic zeal,
Inspires us with earnest endeavor
To accomplish the noblest, our best
'Tis the spirit of Colorado,
The spirit of the West,
TOPEKA, May 2.--Kansas is to have
another woman probate judge. Gove
ernor Hodges has appointed Mrs., A L.
Cullison, of Hartford, probate judge
of Klks County to succeed her hus
| Band, who died recently. The appoint -
ment 1s effective immediately
A woman, Mrs. Mary H. Cooper, of
Beloit, was the first of her sex to hold
a judiclal office in Kansas, she having
heen appeinted probate jndge of Mitch
e County by Governor ~ W. Hoch in
1 1907.
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VMIEMPHIS, April 28.—John B. Rhodes,
L 4 juror in a murder case, who had de
liberated all night, shot hfi:mmr in the
| temple early to<day and died instantly
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