Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-19
ourRAGEs on THE RIO GRASpE.
Bandits Who Gave Up All Rules of Civil
lied Warfare

GALVESTON, TEX, Dec. ia special from
Carozzo TO the Ne,es says:
As all particulars of the fight opposite ST.
Ignacio have not been reported these items
will be interesting. During the fight
Capt Segur of the Mexican troops
seeing be was being particularly
hard pushed, to better protect him
self, as il was q hand-to-hand fight. went into a
hut and fought from there with guns and pis-
tolls There were in the hut a woman and three
children. The captain called to the revolu-
t!onists asking that the woman and children
might go out unhsrmed and the answer was
The woman thought she would steal out
with the children, but as she appeared
at the door she was shot down and the
children ran back. The revolutionists we're
unable TO dislodge the captain from
his quickly chosen fortress and they set
ire to the hut, which drove the captain out
As he made his appearance he was shot dead
and his body thrown back into the burning
building. The three children were penned in
the house by the fire and burned to death.
The bodies of the dead soldiers were thrown
into the flames and when the troops from
Guerrero went to bury the dead they found
some of the bodies burned to a crisp
Another woman, the wife of u non-commis-
stoned OFFICER, undertook to escape by crossing
the Rio Grande to Texas. but she was seen at
about middle Of the stream and shot. She
sank beneath the water and her body had not
been found at last accounts
There are number of wounded men at San
lgnacio. all Mexican troops Only two of the
revoutionists were killed and one wounded SO
far can be learned.
Lieut. West from Fort Ringgold with troop
1, third cavalry, and Lieut.. Fayes with
squad of Seminole Indian scouts
came in Wednesday afternoon about 5
O'Clock and went into camp. They will operate
about this section. They left Ringgold, sixty
miles down the river, Sunday and say every
thing was quiet all the way up and they were
unable to learn anything Of the whereabouts Of
revolutionists
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. ia special to the
Times Democrat from the City Of Mexico says:
"Gen- Htnojbsa, secretary of war, was called
upon at his home today and asked to give his
views concerning the so-called revolutionary
movement recently inaugurated on the lower
Rlo Grande border. The general, In response
to the request. stated that the war de-
partment is fully informed in regard
to the situation the frontier. The
revolutionists are nearly all refugees from this
country, and it is ridiculous to assert that they
have any large following or sympathisers. The
outrage which they perpetrated opposite San
lgnaclo was horrible in its nature and demon
stfated that the men engaged in the revolu-
uonary movement are desperate bands of
criminals bent on murder and robbery.
Gen. Hinojbsa declined to make any state
ment concerning the action of United States
federal and military authorities In breaking up
the lawless bands on the Texas frontier, or to
say whether indemnity would be asked of the
United States government for the killing Of
Mexican soldiers by armed mon who came over
from Texas.