El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-30
AN EYE WITNESS =
Tells the Story Of the NaCo Fight
And Bldmes the MexiCanS.

| ana bI0InSS Tic HlcAICdHS.
The following letter has been receiv
| ed from an eye witness Of the trouble
at Naco on Sunday. While in general
recounting facts already pu blished, lit
gives some matter of detail that serve
to assist the reader in his conclusions
as to who Is at fault in this matter:
The scene enacted Sunday evening
on both sides of the international
| boundary line between the United
States and Mexico at Naco soon after
the base ball game played between two
Bisbee teams, was one long to be re-
mem bered by those who went from
ing's outing to the town of Naco,
Ariz.
The crowd had just left the ball
grounds for the train which was stand
Ing on the track two feet from the
Mexican side, when they saw several
Mexicans beating an American I'M
mercifully. They Immediately ran to
their countryman's aid and were en-
deavoring to bring him over into the
United States when the captain of the
cuardados, or Mexican police, ordered
his men to fire on the Americans. The
Americans quickly got to their side
with their cOmrade, and several cow
boys formed line on the American
side and SHIELD the Mexicans at bay.
Something like q hundred shots were
fred, the Mexicans firing first. After
leans were found dead to their side and
one wounded, tie captain of the Guar
dados. Dan Burgess an old miner who
went down with the excursion from
Bisbee, was walking away from the
shooting, and was nearly two hundred
feet from the Mexican side, was shot
in the feshy part of the leg. dis
wound is not serious, but is very pain
full. He was the only American hurt
in the fight. The very poor marks
manship of the Mexicsns was the cause
of but so few accidents on the Amer
lean side. At the time of the shooting
the excursion train was standing on
the track on the American side not
more than twenty-five feet from where
the two MeXicans were killed, and the
most dastardly part of the whole af
affair was the Mexicans shooting into
the train, which was crowded with wo-
men and children.
The MeXicans did great wrong in
at American citizens across
the boundary line, and have laid them
selves liable to the American govern
ment for this outrage. The matter
should be thoroughly. Investigated by
the government at Washington and
the MexicRns should be taught a les
son.
The two United States marshals and |
line riders, M. Miller and Ed. Hitch
cock. were given notice last night
about IL O'Clock to get out of Naco, |
Ariz by the Mexican police. They |
both brought their families into Bisbee |
asst night, but went back to Naco and |
will uphold the dignity of the govern
nent until the last. 1t is surely
pretty state of affairs when a Mexican
captain and his men will send a mes
'enger into the United States and or
Ter American officers to leave their
own country.
Immediately after the excursion
rain had left ior Bisbee, the Mexican
took an A merican, who was
IN the Mexican side, named William
Ryan, who was endeavoring to get into
he United States, out into the brush
md shot him fifteen times with Win
chester rifles. This was a cold blood
I'd murder, as this man Ryan did not
;ause any disturbance whatever and
vas in no way mixed up in the fight
hat had taken place an hour before.
It has since been learned that Ryan
vas British subject.