Besides the Coahuila riflemen, there were several hundred Madero volunteers who were loyal to the President. General Huerta could not arrest Madero and Suarez, and make peace with Felix Diaz until the loyal Madero troops had been eliminated. So he cautiously kept his own federal regiments back, and sent the Madero volunteers and the Coahuila riflemen to charge the citadel, manned by machine guns, in close formation. The Coahuila volunteers who were mostly mounted, and numbered about 1,150, bravely attacked the guns, but none of them came back alive; the same happened to the Madero volunteers. As soon as Huerta had disposed of the volunteers, he made his peace with Felix Diaz. What remained of the Madero and Coahuila volunteers fled to the standard of Zapata after Huerta came into power. On the 18th of February, 1913, Madero and Suarez were arrested by order of General Huerta. On the 19th of February all Mexico had heard the fateful news, and nobody doubted the outcome of the imprisonment. Don Venustiano Carranza never hesitated one hour, one minute; he convened at once the legislature of the State of Coahuila, and the following decree was the result: _Venustiano Carranza_, Constitutional Governor of the free and Sovereign State of Coahuila of Zaragoza, informs its inhabitants: That the Congress of the State has decreed the following: The Constitutional Congress of the free, independent and sovereign State of Coahuila of Zaragoza decrees: No. 1421: Article I. We disavow General Victoriano Huerta in his character of chief of the Executive power of the Republic, which he claims was conferred to him by the Senate, and we likewise disown all the acts and resolutions which he may dictate under such authority. Article II. Extraordinary powers are transmitted to the Executive of this State in all the branches of Public Administration, so that he may suppress what he may deem convenient and that he shall proceed by the force of arms to sustain the Constitutionalist order of the Republic. To arouse the Governments of the other States and the Chiefs of the Federal, Rural and Auxiliary Forces, so that they may assist the stand taken by the Governor of this State. Decreed in the room of the Congress of the State, in Saltillo, on the 19th of February, 1913. A. Barrera, President of the Legislature. J. Sanchez Herrera, Secretary. Gabriel Calzada, Secretary. Let this be printed, communicated and observed. V. CARRANZA. E. GARZA PEREZ, Secretary. Saltillo, 19 de Febrero de 1913.