The Arizona daily orb., 1899-10-23
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Mexican Guards and Amer
 jeans 70 B tile al Naco.

Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock, just as the train, which carried the base
 ball excursionists to Naco, was about to
 pull out, shooting scrape started be , tween -thc Mexicans and Americans, over forty shots heing exchanged. When the smoke had cleared away there were two Mexican guards laid out in the street, both very seriously wounded, while Ban Burger, a miner from here, vas shot through the right leg. The bullets were flying thick and fast and number passed. over the flat cars on which were hundreds of women and i children, while two hulets lodged in the end'of the passenger coach, the train at the time heinz not over two hundred feet from the contestants.
 1 The battle started over small fistic
 encounter between a Mexican ana an, 1 American, on the9 Mexican side of the i line. Tue American krocked the Mexi- can down and started 10; come back into the United States when the Mexican police started for hlm, when a shot was
 fired, which was signaia fore general fncilade, armed Mexican corda,ios and guards app+aring from all sides, while the cowboys came quickly to the aid of the few Americans that were armed. At one of the first shots Dan Burger, who was trying to cross from the store
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 to get aboard the train, fell with bull. let iu his right leg, and after falling bal: lets ma,ia the dust fly all around him, Several na,1ips lad narrow escapes, and only saved. being shot by lying flat of, the ground. An ORB reporter, who was on the scene, with others started to go to Burger but the whistling of bullels in close proximity to their heads, made them think that the closer they hugged Mother Earth the better it would be for them. After the firing had stopped Burgers wound was bound mp as well as could be and he was brought to town and placed in the company hospital.
 After the train had left about twenty minutes, the guards killed man named James Ryan, freighter and British subject. Ryan was employed in unload- ing freight for the Cobre Grande com psny and was in no way connected in the affair. He was on the Nexcan side when shot, and his body is said to have been riddled with bullets.
 Joe Rhodes, an American cowboy, we'll known in this city. who happened to be on the Mexican side when the affair took place, was arrested and placed in jail, as was also James Marks, an American employed at Naco, who is also quite we'll known here, he having served as packer in the Cuban war. " /. Had the fight started five minutes sooner, when the street leading from the ball ground was filled with men, women, and children, it is hard to. have foretold the resul 5, and that more were not killed or wounded seems almost 
 The scene on the care Mas one most pitiful;, women and children fatnting, calling for husbands, mo h. srs and brothers, while number went into mysteries.
 This episode, which now makes the third chapter in the Naco warfare, promises to lead to more serious com. plications than the one at the time of the killing of Bob Clayton some six weeks ago. The American authorities will undoubtedly take mp the matter, while British subjects here are already taking steps to call tie attention of the British government to the killing of Ryan.
 It would not have taken much to have aroused the crowds that gathered on the streets last night 10 fighting trim and making raid on the Mexings, but wise counsel on the part oi come qnieted matters down. It was reported this morning that an attempt was to be made to rescue Rhodes and Marts, but up to the hour of guing to press nothing had happened to disturb the quiet and peace of Naco, although the outlook Is anything but reassuring, I