A CITY OF HORRORS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 49, 15 July 1914, Page 6

A CITY OF HORRORS.

TAMI'ICO TAKiCX AFTER SiX DAYS 1 FRUITING. TKRUIDLG PICTURF OK IU'IN. Tarnpico, in the hand- of the Mexican rebcU after a .-ix clays' battle, is a ruined city. In the Una] a-, ( ault the lighting was of a nio-t. <i">pr;:ite char-iU-tcr, a lid. t!< .i],i iu-i- mv giveu of the .spectaele pre.-.eiit'd later. The New York Herald published the following tele-jram from Ta:.i;>: w: -"There i., ruin everywhere. The oily is ii"arl\ levelled. What siiidis lire The victorious rebels are burying their own and the enemy's dead. Every Hospital i- filled witli 'Wounded ami dead, tieneral (Mui/alez the Federal dead at Jso, ; ind their wounded at (i'M. and tiie rebel losses at :U dead and IJ-S WOU'Kh'd. Ot-he - details of the fall of the city haw been received at J'rownsville iTe\;i ii. I !ii* ( played luivoe with an entire Federal "ntreiiehnicnT. TJie roar of eannon was abne-i i iintinuou.-) until the ' i ti.e ;'-.-anU" until rhe I'eder- ; a's lied in already beeij i>*ued to to reI'jrn ,iyid re-finit' t.ht*ihu.-iiie.--. A ii' !!ii hj: uf men ill the nil mill''.at lo uwi;-\iile intend .-tii rtiu.L: for t ! ie Tan.pico odiiehN imniediutch. A r rini de-.-ription uf the la>t of the rehel victory i- in a uie^-

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