The San Francisco call., 1897-04-21
Sanguinary Combat in
Lochiel, Across the
Boundary.
Arizona Desperadoes Resist
Soldiers Sent to Bring
Them In.
One or the Raiders Killed and q
Number on Both Sides
Wounded.

Jacks" band of night riders, which has
terrorized Arizona for several years past,
Is minus member. As a little diversion
from the monotony OF stagecoach "hold-
ups" and raids on frontier postoffices the
cutthroats crossed the Mexican border
yesterday and proceeded to Lochiel,
town on the boundary, which they prac-
tically took possession of, and then Tn.
dertook the stupendous feat of consuming
all the whisky it contained. Among the
outlaws were Angel Escalante, George
Brady and several others equally notori-
Gus, but it is not known to certainty
that "Black Jack" was with them. When
they recrossed the boundary last night
they bore with them a dead com panion,
while back in the town from which they
were fleeing lay Mexican soldier writh-
ing IN agony from a mortal wound.
News of a battle between the cutthroats
and Mexican soldiers was brought to
Nogales. Mexico, to-day, by Senor Juan
SalaZar, Alcalde of Santa Cruz, town
thirty miles distant across the boundary.
Senor SalaZar came 10 communicate by
telegraph with the Governor of The State
of Sonora and report the details OF the
fight.
Senor SalaZar says that a messenger ar
rived post haste from Lochiel yesterday
with the information that band of
American outlaws was making trouble in
Lochlel. The messenger said the Ameri-
canos were drunk, ana were shooting at
citizens who had the temerity to thrust
their heads out of doors or windows. AL
ready they had slightly wounded one
man, whom they fired upon as he was
crossing a street.
The Alcalde at once dispatched five
soldiers to Lochiel, believing the trouble
some Americanos were only good -natured
vaQueros who had come to town to
squander their seasons wages for mescal
When the soldiers arrived at Lochiei they
were directed TO an adobe saloon, from
which BLACK Jacks" men had driven
the proprietor and in which the outlaws
were singing and carousing, while inter
mittently me m bers of the band displayed
their dexterity with pistols by shooting
the pecks from bottles behind the bar.
The soldiers appeared in the doorway of
the adobe and called upon the occupants
to surrender. Their demand was re-
ceived with ieers by the Americanos, and
several bullets were fired toward the door
way.
The soldiers sprang into the room aud
answered the fire, the two factions lining
| up at opposite ends of the apartment.
For several minutes the reports of pistols
drowned the yells and curses of the COM
batants, while the room was filled with
the smoke from their weapons.
Meanwhile the men of Lochiel, encour-
aged by the presence of the soldiers, were
hurrying to the saloon 10 participate in
the determination of the hated Arizonians
The fight, before it had gone on five min.
utes, became one-sided, and the outlaws
determined to make dash for freedom
| They succeeded IN forcing their way
through the Mexicans about the door of
The adobe, ran TO their horses, which were
tethered some fifty yards away, mounted
and dashed out of town, firing a parting
volley at the soldiers and civilians before
| they were out OF range. AS proof that the
Americanos possessed an abundance of
border nerve" be it known that instead
OF fleeing precipitately they tarried long
enough to carry with them to their horses
| the body OF one of their nun Der who had
been killed in the fight, and when they
rode from the town this corpse hung limp
before one of the riders, head on one side
of the horse and feet on the other. Be-
sides the man killed the outlaws suffered
considerably in the matter of wounds, not
one of them escaping unscathed.
On the Mexican side one soldier was
nortalIy wounded and his death was
expected when the last news from Lochiel
reached Santa Cruz. Each of the other
four soldiers had been wounded, but only
| one seriously.
An effort will be made by the officers on
this side of the line to capture the law
breakers and cause them 10 be handed
over to the Sonora officials, whose pun
ishment OF desperadoes is summary and
/ csneraliv fatal