Mexican Fed erals Transfered From Fort Bliss
On May 4 the 2000 federal soldiers with 19 women and children were moved from Fort Bliss to Fort Wingate New Mexico in response to a critical Mexican situation. Three 10 car trains carried about 2000, with four more sections planned for tomorrow under General Villa’s defeat aftermath. Lieutenant Colonel Frederick Perkins led the transfer. guards included the first and second battalions of the Twentieth United States Infantry. Among the prisoners were General Jose Ynez Salazar and Maximo Castillo, linked to neutrality law charges and the Cumbres tunnel raid. Escape attempts resulted in two prisoners being shot.
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EL Paso
Texas
Fort Bliss
Ojinaga
Fort Wingate
N. M
Villa
Frederick Perkins
Twentieth
United States Infantry
Jose Ynez Salazar
New Mexico
Maximo Castillo
Cumbres
Mexican & Northwestern Railroad
Woman collapses at South Station and dies in hospital
A woman believed to be Lila S. M Lean of Needham collapsed in the South Station waiting room last night. She was carried to City Hospital where she died from a cerebral hemorrhage at age 45.
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Lila S. Melean
Needham
South Station
City Hospital
Mediation in Mexico Falls as Carranza Refuses Armistice
Mediation talks collapse after Carranza balks at an armistice. Huerta may resign under US mediation, while Carranza Villa oppose talks, raising the chance of renewed conflict and possible invasion plans. Three favorable results cited include safe removal of most Americans and US mediation gains.
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Carranza
Villa
United States
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Huerta
Velasco May Head New War In Vera Cruz
May 4 conservative refugees arriving in the capital report General Jose Refugio Velasco plans another revolt after being driven from Torreon by Francisco Villa. Velasco reportedly resents government support in Torreon and says he will not again lead troops against the rebels.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
Jose Refugio Velasco
Torreon
Francisco Villa
Velasco
Mexico City
Turmoil and retreat mark Velasco’s Torreon withdrawal
General Velasco accuses the War Department of failing to supply small arm ammunition during the Torreon defeat, claiming 6000 troops dwindled to 1200 at Saltillo after 83 rebel assaults. Refugees report Zapata’s Genevevo de la O siding with Huerta, while Villa’s approach looms on the federal capital.
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Torreon
Velasco
War Department
Huerta
Javier de Moure
Carlos Garcia Hidalgo
Saltillo
Genevevo de la O
Emiliano Zapata
Cuernavaca
Zapata
Rebels Threaten Oil Fire If Warships Enter River
A refugee train of 75 Americans arrived in Vera Cruz from Mexico City. The refugees had fled from Real del Monte and Pachuca. Constitutionalists warned Rear Admiral Mayo that any American ships entering the Panuco River would trigger oil reservoirs above Tampico to be set afire, risking destruction of the city.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
United States
Carranza
Villa
Huerta
Mexico
Tampico
Secretaries of State, War and Navy
Wilson
VERA_CRUZ
Real del Monte
Pachuca
Mayo
Panuco River
Rebels advance near Vera Cruz amid harbor mines
The Jenkins arrives from Tampico to Vera Cruz as both sides reportedly plant mines in Tampico harbor. Admiral Mayo is expected to wait the city’s fall by starvation while artillery moves toward the rebels. Firing has been quiet for three days.
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Tampico Harbor
Admiral Mayo
Jenkins
Return to Monterey and Vera Cruz notes in Mexican frontier report
Reports from Vera Cruz say federal activity in the Interior and possible railroad damage near the San Francisco gauge line used by Scott in 1847. Brigadier-General Funston surveys El Tejar water works with staff and reporters, while American sentries monitor routes. villagers host troops and provide supplies with prompt payment and permission before digging.
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Monterey
Vera Cruz
Gustavo Maas
San Francisco
Scott
Mexico City
Frederick Funston
el Tejar
Benjamin Alvord
Adjutant-General’s Department
William G. Ball
John H. Russell
Mexico
Fear for Life of Boston Man
A plea for information about Daniel McAllister of Boston reached Senator Henry Cabot Lodge who made a rapid trip to the State Department. McAllister, Harvard graduate and mining engineer in Mexico, sent regular remittances to his mother until March 14, with no word since.
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Washington
Daniel McAllister
Boston
San Luis Potosi
Mexico
Henry Cabot Lodge
State Department
McAllister
Cornelius J. Desmond
Woodrow Avenue
Dorchester
Harvard
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Ft. Bliss
Ft. Wingate
Bryan
Wellville
Jhere
John
Father John
Rede
Pilgrim Mfg. Co
New York
Excelsior
Bacelsior
Excelsior Umbrella Mfg. Co
Summer Street
Mass
Natty
Sailor Shapes
Bedford
Funston
Frontera
Progreso
Puerto Mexico
Carmen
Jalapa
Tehuantepec
House of Chickering
Tremont ST
Mason&West Sts
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