Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — ZAPATA HOLDS KEY TO MEXICO CITY [ARTICLE]

ZAPATA HOLDS KEY TO MEXICO CITY

Can Cut Off All Railroads Entering Capital. DYNAMITE TO STOP TRAINS Rebel Force of 1,500 Capture Town of Zongollca After Six-Hour Battle and Kill the Garrison. » ' Mexico City, Sept. 6. —Emillano Zapata, head of the bandit rebels of louthern Mexico, who is in a position to cut off all railroads entering this city If he so desires, has Issued an order forbidding the National railways of Mexico to operate any more trains on the Cuernavaca branch. The order was presented to the train crew of a passenger train coming to Mexico City from Cuernavaca at Roman station by a messenger from Zapata. Threatens to Use Dynamite. The message warns the National railways that the next train run either to or from Cuernavaca whether It carries freight, passengers or troops, will be dynamited. The message Is written In excellent English. The National railways has suspended traffic on the line, Inasmuch as the government Is unable to afford protection. Eufemlo Zapata, brother of Emlllano, has crossed from Guerrere Into the state of Vera Cruz at the head of 1,500 men. They captured Zongollca, a town of 2,000 Inhabitants, after a sixhour fight, killing the garrison and there united with Pedro Gerabay, another rebel leader, with 600 men, moving on toward the port of Vera Cruz. Vera Cruz Fears Capture. Officials of Vera Cruz have asked aid as they believe the rebels plan to take the port, which Is practically defenseless. Although the government denies It there has been serious trouble for more than a week in the barracks of the Third artillery In Mexico City. Several of the leaders of a plot to loot the Cuartel of arnffs and join Zapata have been executed and more than 100 men of the company have been re? moved to the federal penitentiary at Santiago. Capt. Pablo Ortega was Injured In arresting the prisoners, two of whom were wounded. The Zapatistas have attacked Zacualpan and Tenanclngo, towns of about 4,000 and 15,000 Inhabitants respectively. They were repulsed at Zacualpan, but returned to the attack and the fighting Is reported as about even at Tenanclngo. Rush More Troops to Border.

Washington, Sept. 6. —The war department announces that additional troops are being rushed to £he Mexican frontier to reinforce the patrol guard there, especially in the Big Bend territory, where the Mexican rebels are waging a guerilla warfare and are looting ranches and mines. General Steever, in command of the forces, wired from El Paso that he has ordered six troops of the Fourteenth cavalry stationed at Fort Clark, Tex., to proceed with all dispatch to Big Bend to strengthen the American line at that point. He states that he was forced to take this action because of the presence of rebels in large numbers in northern Mexico and their depredations on the properties of foreign residents in that section of Mexico.