The evening world., 1910-12-14
BAyONET REBELS
TERSURRENDER;
OTHERS ARE shot
Barbarities Charged to Mexican
Troops After Fight in Which
Seventy-four Were Killed.

AT THE FRONT, RANCHO SANTI-
AGO. rear Pedernalcs. Dec. 12-Via Fl
Paso. Tex. Dec. 1.-THE revolutionists
tonight Gen. Navarro 10 q stnndstiil in
yeaterday's engagement. although IN
ferdor In numbers. An told. seventy
-four persons are Known by independents
Investigation 10 hav been Killed.
Navarro took no ~rrisoners-it Is ron-
trary TO o~rders-and in his camp to-day
there were no wounded OF the other side.
The bayonet had completed the work OF
the bullet.
An instance of the barbarity 81 the
c1npaign occurrci after the battle.
Every man in the hamlet Of Cerro
Pristo Ozark HID was brought before
the Mayor TO prove his innocence or
participation In the revolt. Thirty could
not 10 this. They are included In the
number OF the dead. Gen. Navarro
places his own dead at one captain. ono
lieutenant and twelve soldiers. Twenty
seven Of his men, Including ~ officers.
were severely wounded.
Five insurrectIonists who ran out Of
ammunition and surrendered were bay
onetted. One OF them who had tainted
from a bullet which grazed his temple
took the bayonet thrust in the ribs and
was left for dead. but during the night
he recovered and escaped. He grinned
Nm ne told his story. When tho CORE
spcndent related the tale to Gen. Navar-
70 to-day the latter laughed heartily as
II enjoying the joke on himself.
The fight was indecisive in its results.
IL began al 11.S A. NJ. and lasted until
p. NJ. and occurred at the village OF
Cerro Presto. 100 miles west of Chlhua-
hua, at the base OF two low hills. nine
miles east OF here. Two hundred revo-
lutionists had occupied the hills during
the previous night. When Gen Navarro
With NO of his advance guard passed
easf OF the halls the insurrectos opened
ire. out did little damage owing to the
distance. ''
Later, when the field pieces came ny
Navarro shelled them from their posi-
tions. The revolutionists r~etreatet
siewiy. firing from the shelter o.
adobe houses which dot the mesa. Al
oiciqck their ammunition having rur
loW, they took up n position at the
base OF a range OF low mountains nv,
niles southwest of Cerro Prieto.
There was no hghting to-day, de
spite the proximity Of the two forces
which in itself indicares a drawn bat
tie. Their camp hres can be seen from
here tonight. During the hghtini
Sunday the original zoo insurrecto
were reinforced by 230 of their com
rades. Two hundred more arrived to
night, and II was stated that by morn
ing there would be -four hundred NOR
from west OF here.
MEXICO CITY. Mex. Dec. 18th,
Wal Department to-day officially on
nounced the result of the first BATH,
near Guerrero. Western Chihuahua, II
which 800 rebels. holding the town. re
sisted 600 troops commanded by Gen
Navarro. Seventy revolutionists an,
fourteen Federal soldiers were kille,
and $50 rebels and eighty troops wound
ed. Tho troops then prepared to oc
cupy mo town, which was merely I
rsGtore the community to the loca
authorities.
Omciai announcement II to the effec
thai the rebels were routed completed
in chat part Of chihuahua about Guer
rero. which was reported to be In tn
hands Of rebels two weeks ago.
WARRINGTON. Dec. N.-The Mex
~ Fsderaa troops have completed
and captured tho city OF Guerrero, ac
coenbng TO . telegram received to-da
by the State Department from An
hassador Wilson at Mexico City.
ss3Ais cleared the State OF, Chihuahu
anA othsr parts Of the country" sal
~. Wilson. ''of all organized resi-
tanfD 10 the 0overnmeut"