Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
OUR TROOPS IN PERIL.
Fort Ringgold and $50 Brave Men
Against 1,500 of Garza's Band.
ANXIOUS FOR NEWS OF A BATTLE.
Dissatisfied Mexicans Waiting for Pros
poets for Success
TO FLOCK TO THE REBELS STANDARD

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 1-Garza and his
followers are in Tamaulipas, Mexico, 600
strong. The alarm on the border is becom-
ing intense. There are many startling ru-
mors in circulation concerning the fate of
the United States troops concentrated in
Starr and Duval counties, In which section
Cara has established large force.
He is known to have force of 500 desper-
ate men, and the 1000 Mexican troops who
are reported to have murdered and deserted
General Lorenzo Garcia, commander at
Mier, Mexico, have made their way to
Garza's stronghold on the Texas side Their
united forces would thus give Captain John
G. Bourke and his $50 United States troops
hard fight.
General Stanley and the other military
authorities are very uneasy over not re-
ceiving any information from the seat of
war during the past 4S hours. The locality
where the field operations are now supposed
to be carried on is fully 100 miles from a
telegraph station.
Fort RinggoId's Imminent Peril.
1t would not be at all impossible for
Cara, with force of 1, 200 men, to capture
Fort Ringgold and the whole force of
United States troops in that section of the
frontier. He has threatened on several oc-
casions to take Fort Ringgold if it became
necessary for him to secure food and mili-
tary supplies If opportunity has occurred
it is not improbable to believe that he has
executed his threats
General Stanley will send two more
troops of cavalry to the scene of the dis
turbance early tomorrow morning. If it
becomes necessary additional troops will be
sent to the frontier from the other military
departments.
The last advices were from Captain
Wheeler, commanding at Fort Ringgold,
of Captain Hardie, First Lieutenant Beach
and Second Lieutenant Langhorn, together
with Brooks Texas Rangers, for an attack
upon Cara with $50 men in Starr county.
1t is believed the poor telegraph service on
the border has been paralyzed by the wires
being cut. 1t is not known from this fact
whether an engagement has occurred or not.
Thousand Soldiers in the Field.
Four troops of cavalry, all told, have
been sent from this point, swelling the
total number of United States troops in the
turbulent territory to about 1,000 Cara
has spies in this city who keep him fully
posted of every maneuver of the troops, and,
if the rumored revolt of the Mexican SOL
diers at Mier to join his standard proves
correct, it is believed that the population of
Northern Mexico will flock to his standard
rapidly.
The recent prosecutions of the Catholic
clergyman has heightened the disaffection
toward the Diaz Government, and all that
people are waiting for to join any revo-
lutionary movement is the prospect of its
success.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says:
kilograms received to-day say that the force
of Mexican revolutionists, which a few
days ago attacked body of United States
soldiers, numbered only ten men.
The offers of Americans to supply the
needy Mexicans with corn have stimulated
the Spaniards to make similar offers with
the object of out-vying the generosity of
the Americans.