Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-21
For First Time in His Long Ca
reer prest. Diaz Faces Truly
Serious Situation.
AMERICANS CHANGING VIEW
Those Residing in Sister Republic
Talking in Different strain From,
VIA; They Did at First.

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change but little todays telegraphic
report Of the cutting up of the gov
ornment troop train at Nal paso last
sunday.
The Official report Of 81 fcderuls KILL
cd, 1C missionE and IL wounded stands,
with the addition that 80 slightly
wounded. bringing the total injured to
Y. also cnmc on the train The in
jurcs of these 30 are not serious and
it is not customary to carry them in
the hospital lists Most of them are
on their feet.
Rumors have been abroad today that
the federals lost 100 killed. but this
seems to be without foundation, and
probably referred to the total number
OF killed, wounded and injured. which
makes about 1O0,
Ncrlsimilitude is added to the gov
crnment report OF losses by the fact
that the hospital train brought in so
Mauser rifles, or about the number
which their killed and wounded would
have dropped Also 100 killed to II
wounded is far from the proportion
which the killed In battle usually bear
to the injured. 1t is considered
sanguinary battle where one man is
killed TO five wounded.
FACING REAL REVOLUTION.
The defeat of the troop train with
it's three field pieces and $50 men. in
tensifics the tension here. on top of
the drawn battle of Ccrro Prieto 10
days ago II is taken rs confirmation
OF the declarations that President
Diaz. for the first time in long tenure
Of of con "A
The most ardent sympathizcrs with
the revolt. and they include most of
the unofficial population, scarcely
hoped the insurgents would be able 10
make more than one stand against the
disciplined soldiers Of the government
The government stated that the re-
volt consisted Of but little else save
ncuclus Of bandits augmented by mis-
guided poems who could not handle
rifle and whom it would be but police
work to Suhduc.
Official reports now double their csti-
mate Of number of insurrectos In the
field Cerro Prieto was q drawn fight:
NAL Psso -was a'yictory for the rebels.
That summarizes In effect the result
of important military happenings in
the state of Chihuahua Conservative
Americans who have held all along
that the government had a job on its
hands. but would triumph eventually
wcrc talking in different strain to-
night The discussion runs mostly rs
to how long Gen. Navarro, with the
main force Of federals can hold out.
Reports that he has been killed remain
without confirmation. His force, how
ever is reported surrounded in the VI
entity Of Podcrnalcs.
NAvARRO'S REPORTS.
Pedcrnales, which has been the chief
tty,S. pl,fAtt
six miles from Nal Paso. Navarros Of
fetal report of his exploits last Thurs
day as given out by the war office ut
the City of Mexico are interesting in
view of the defeat at Nal Paso. II is
commentary on Mexican official re-
ports The war office said that ne dis
lodged the rebels from Nal Paso after
two hours fighting He then returned
from the Nal Paso contingent to Peder- :
males where. after six hours of desper-
ate shooting, the rebels broke and dis
appeared in all directions.
Today comes tho story of the federal
wounded. They ran into a very serious
prcdicumcnt at n place where the Of
nclal report declared ihat the enemy
had been dislodgcd and had fled IN
disorder. not only from Nal Paso, but
from Pedcrnales.
1t is true, though not given out by the
war office so far as known here, that
Navarro later reported here that he
had been unable to hold his advantage
at Nal Paso and had been twice re-
pulsed He had been ordered 10 hold
Nal Puso TO form Junction with the
soldiers of the troop train Hc made
desperate attempt to do so, but failed.
His failure in this regard Is nttrib-
uted to the remarkable augmentation
o, the revolutionary numbers. 1t has
been reported all along and asserted by
ins,Irrecto leaders that thousand
men were held in reserve. having been
ordered to remain ut work In the mines
until called for. This call went forth
over n week ago. Whereas, their num-
hcr at that time was not over II thou
sand, the official reports now put them
al 1000, Navarro on the other hand,
has not grown stronger,
rpocp TRAIN
The troop train left here Saturday
morning. The night was spent at San
Antonio. II had been proposed 10 uis-
embark III that's point, but the country
looked so tranquil that II was decided
TO use the train bit further. This
brought the detachment to the east en-
trance of Nal f'aSo 03nd Pass) IT was
not Intended to proceed further by train,
but to take up the march here, scouting
as they went Scarcely had the process
OF decentralization begun, however.
when the insurrectos opened fire from
the mountain tops and sides. The sol