MEXICAN REBELLION.
"BATTLE NEAR SAN LORENZO. EIGHTY-SEVEN KILLED. By Telegraph—Press Associnlion—Copyrigbt. New York, February 2. Seventy-five revolutionists and twelve Federals. were killed in a battle near San Lorenzo, Chihuahua, Mexico. Trains captured by the Jtexiea.ii rebels have been released. The passengers were unmolested. American citizens have been ordered to leave Juarez, a large Mcxican town near the American border. Mines aro believed to have been planted under tho Government Buildings by tho rebels. RAILWAY DYNAMITED. MANY REBELS KILLED. (Bee. February 3, 1.7 a.m.) New York, February 3. The inhabitants of Ciudad Juarez, across tho American border, aro fleeing before the Mexican rebels, who swear to capture the town. The banks' treasure has been brought out to El Paso.
Tho Federal forco dynamited the railway near Juarez, a train loaded with rebels being wrecked by the explosion. Many wore, killed, human fragments littering the track.
A skirmish followed, both sides losing men.
The Federal troops exploded tho gunpowder works south of Juarez. Two Americans were accidentally killed by the explosion. El Paso was shaken by the detonation.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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176MEXICAN REBELLION. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1043, 4 February 1911, Page 5
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