New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-15
MEXICAN BATTLE A DRAW
Rebels Captured Reported to
Have Been Put to Death.
FIGHTING EXPECTED TO-DAY
General Navarro Reports Eighty
Rebels Killed and His Own
Loss Fourteen.


a.. ~ y by way of FL Paso, Tex, Dec.
1-crneral Navarro's official report places
-. r,,-,ber of rebel dead at eighty In Sun
go, hattie at Cerro Prieto, but indie
-a,sent investigation cannot confirm this.
r.. rehels claim TO have fought General
Navarro 10 a stands1l-
rbA Associated Press correspondent saw
.hirtr-three dead, but generally was I'M
chic 10 determine TO which side they be-
,o,red General Navarro admits he lost
IN killed two officers and twelve men and
+zze,fy-seven seriously wounded The reb-
els plsoe their own dead at nineteen and
their wounded at enc.
General Navarro stated he did not pur-
sue the enemy, because he wished to care
for his wounded. There is but one doctor
with his forces Opposed to this state
men. is the assertion Of the rebels that
BE did not pursue because he had been
fought TO a finish, and had exhausted his
energy Had he killed eighty Of them, it
IS argued that his duty was plain to finish
.he remainder in their presumably demon
allied state
Rebel leaders to-day acted like victors-
Reinforcements arrived here to the number
of two hundred, and the chiefs declared
they were ready and expected another bat
lie tomorrow. On the other hand, dissen-
sion appeared within the Naderista ranks.
Last night Pancho Villa, famed bandit,
with twenty-five of his followers, forsook
the paths Of patriotism for the old line OF
endeaTOr
They heat and robbed a Ckinaman, ex-
.orted 2,eoO from the native superintendent
iof Gabriel Saenz ranch and burned the
store Of a Mexican at Pedernales Villas
detection was admitted by the other rebel
chiefs, who declared that he had harmed
The cause and had done no fighting. They
declared they would wipe him and his band
off the face of tbs earth
General Navarro took no prisoners on
Surday-it is contrary to his orders-and
IA his camp to-day there were no wounded
IF the other side The bayonet had COM
s,leted the work of the bullet
horrible instance of the barbarity OF
rhe campaign occurred after the battle.
Every man in the hamlet of Cerro Prieto
vas brought before the Mayor TO prove his
. innocence Of participation in the revolt
Thirty could not do this. AS fast as their
| sdeutity became known they were taken out
,sn6 shot. They are included in the num-
5er of the dead.
Five rebels who ran out of ammunition
tlua surrendered were bayoneted. One of
them who had tainted from bullet which
irszed the temple took the bayonet thrust
BIZ the ribs and was left for dead, but dur
fne the night he recovered and escaped.
! The battle was indecisive in its results.
II began at IL O'Clock, and lasted until
n in the afternoon, and occurred at the
kiHage of Cerro Prieto, one hundred
miles west Of chihuahua at the base
tf two low hills nine miles east of
here Two hundred rebels had occupied the
hills during the previous night When
General Navarro, with $50 Of his advance
guard passed east of the hills the rebels
opened fire, but did little damage owing TO
she distance.
Later when the field pieces came up,
Navarro shelled them from their positions.
The revolutionists retreated slowly, firing
from the shelter of adobe houses which
dot the mesa At 4 o'clock, their am
1nunition having run low, they took up a
position at the base of a range OF low
mountains five miles southwest of Cerro
FIieto.
In an interview General Navarro stated he
expected serious fighting from nowfsFa1- He
admitted that the insurgents were brave
but declared their lack Of military organi-
cation would defeat them in the end.
II was confirmed in his camp that gov
eminent troops were convergins on this
section from Parral and from Sonora
General Navarro, contrary to report, has
n rapid-fre guns. only field pieces. The
parral contingent, however, is bringing
rapid-hrers. If the rebels start TO win they
s77ust destroy General Navarro in order to
contend with the new forces
The most serious loss suffered by the
rebels occurred in an adobe house in which
they had taken cover. shell wrecking the
place, killing and wounding several, but
rot before they had accounted for a num-
be- Of the enemy. The Associated Press
correspondent counted fifteen dead near
TIE ruins of the house, apparently about
equally divided between the two forces
mother unbur!e6 soldier was seen by the
-uaeside on the road from this place TO the
sosoe es TIE battle. Six more were in the
federal camp awaiting burial Other dead
were accounted for as still lying where
they seil on III. hills.
washington, Dec. 1.-THE Mexican federal
troops have completely routed the revolu-
uonisu IN Chihuahua and captured the
city o. Guerrero, according TO telegram
received to-day by the State Department
from Ambassador Wilson at Mexico City
This cleared the state Of chihuahua and
other parts Of the country said Mr.. Will
son, 'of all organized resistance 10 the
government
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