Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-15
! NO PRISONERS IS
NAvARRO'S ORDER
Mexican Government Soldiers
Bayonet Wounded insurgents
Following Sundays Fight
UNARMED VILLAGERS SHOT
Men of Hamlet Unable to Prove
Innocence of Part in Re-
volt Are Killed
UNARMED VILLAGERS SHo7
Associated Pressl

! DIEGO (near Padernalles) Dec. u, via
! Ell Paso, Dec. 14.-In yesterdays battle
! the revolutionists fought General Ma
varro to a standstill, although inferior
! in numbers. All told, "a persons are
| known, by independent Investigations,
| to have been killed.
| Navarro took no prisoners-it is con-
trary to his orders-and in his camp to-
| day there were no wounded of the
other side. The bayonet had complet-
ed the work of the bullet A horrible
| instance of the barbarity of the cam
| paign occurred after the battle. Every
| man in the hamlet of Cerro Prieto
| Ozark HID was brought before the
mayor to prove his innocence OF parti-
| cipation in the revolt Thirty could
not do this. AS fast as their identity
! became known they were taken out
! and shot. They arc included in the
number of the dead. General Navarro
| places his own dead at one captain,
! one lieutenant and twelve soldiers.
! Twenty-seven of his men, including
two officers, were severely wounded
! Among the latter was General Bran
| don, special correspondent of the MeXi-
! can Herald, and resident of Panama.
| A bullet hit his horse in the eye
| passed through his neck, and lodged in
| the riders abdomen. Another bullet
! hit him in the wrist. Brandon is the
champion middle weight wrestler of
| Mexico.
INsURGENT ESCAPES
| Five insurgents who ran out OF am
munition and surrendered were bay
oneted. One of them, who had tainted
from a bullet which grazed his temple,
| took the bayonet thrust in the rib and
was left for dead, but during the night
! he recovered and escaped. He grinned
as he told his story. When the cor
respondent related the tale to General
| Navarro today the latter laughed heart
ily as If enjoying joke on himself
The battle was indecisive in its re-
suits. It began at IL a. m. and lasted
until p. M, and occurred at the vii
lage of Cerro Prieto, 100 miles west of
Chihuahua at the base of two low
hills nine miles east of here. Two hun
dred revolutionists had occupied the
hills during the previous night. When
General Navarro, with 450 of his ad-
vance guard, passed east OF the nils,
the insurgents opened fire, but did
little damage owing to the distance.
Later when the field pieces came up
Navarro shelled them from their posi-
ton The revolutionists retreated
slowly. firing from the shelter of
adobe houses which dotted the mesa.
BATTLE Is DRAWN
At 4 o'clock, their ammunition hav-
| ing run low, they took up a position
| at the base of range OF low noun
! tains five miles southwest of Cerro
Prieto. There was no fighting today,
despite the proximity of the two forces,
which in itself indicates a drawn bat
tie. Their camp fires can be seen from
here tonight. During the fighting Sun
day the original 200 insurgents were
reinforced by 230 of their comrades.
| Two hundred more arrived tonight,
and it was stated that by morning
there would be 400 more from west Of
| here.
In an interview Gen. Navarro stated
that he expected serious fighting from
now on. He admitted that the insur-
gents were brave, but declared that
! their lack of military organization
would defeat them in the end.
| 1t was confirmed in his camp that
government troops are converging on
! this section from Parral and from
| Sonora. Navarro, contrary to common
| report, has no rapid fire guns-only
| field pieces The Parral contingent,
however. Is bringing rapid firers. II
| the reVolutionists are to win they must
| destroy Navarro in order to contend
with the new forces. The most seri-
! Gus loss suffered by the revolutionists
occurred in an adobe house in which
! thew had taken cover, a shell wrecking
but not before they had accounted for
a number of the enemy.
TROOPS BURY DEAD
The Associated Press correspondent
counted fifteen dead near the ruins of
the house, apparently about equally
! divided between the two armies. About
| half of them had been stripped of their
| clothing. 1t is practice among the
soldiers to strip the uniforms from
| their dead comrades, partly for the
clothing and partly to conceal their
| identity from those who may seek to
discover their losses.
Another unburled soldier, also
| stripped was seen by the roadside on
the road from this place to the scene
| of the battle. Six more were in the
federal camp waiting burial. These
were placed in rough boxes and buried
with military honors in a corral. Two
companies lined up and the bugle blew
GLORY to the dead; long live President
| Diaz" .
Last night Pancho Villa, a famed
bandit, with twenty-five of his follow
ers forsook the path of patriotism for
the old line of endeavor, They beat up
and robbed a Chinese, eXtorted $4,000
! in Mexican money from the native su-
perintendent of Gabriel Saenz ranch
| and burned the store of q Mexican at
| Padernales. They threatened to kill
! the station agent at Padernales, who
| is a brother of the storekeeper, be-
cause he refused to give them two
| horeshoes. The station agent, who is
also the telegraph operator, deserted
the station today in fear of his life.
! Villas detection was admitted by the
other insurgent chiefs, who declared
! that he had harmed the cause and had
done no fighting. They said they
would wipe him and his band off the
| face of the earth. He was last re-
ported galoping toward San Andres.
| Reports conflict concerning the do
! ings of Castula Herrera, one of the in
surgent leaders, who has been fore
most in safeguarding foreigners. Her
rera, with $50 men, some riding two on
q horse, appeared at the Rancho Rubio
| this afternoon and ransacked the ranch
store, but after the revolutionary GUS
| tom gave receipts for goods taken.
! Fifteen horses also were comman-
deered. The government construes this
as meaning that the revolutionists have
| split up into bandit groups, but on the
other side it is stated that Herrera has
never been on other than recruiting
and foraging work and that duty alone
| led him to rob. Rubiol is thirty miles
| east of Cerro Prieto.
| To sum up, government officials in
| sist that Navarro has split the revolu-
! tionists into small bands, whilo the lat
ter state that they are stronger than
ever