The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-04-21
REBELS EVACUATE
Aqua PRIETA, MEX.
Leave Town to FederdiS After
All Day Battle.

After an all day battle the Mexican
rebels withdrew secretly from Aqua
Prieta, Mex, and the federals are now
occupying the town The days fight
ing began at $50 in the morning.
At 1 o'clock the rebel commander
at Aqua Prieta estimated the federal
dead at seventy-five. The rebel losses
were at that time twenty dead and
fifty wounded
The rebels mad brought twenty dead
into the town of Aqua Prieta and with
their loss so heavy, the federal loss
must be much heavier, as the federals
fought in the open a great deal CT tie
time.
Federal troops disregarded United
States warnings and their own prom
Uses not to fire into the United States
but in fighting from low ground, elt
waited their aim and bullets carried
far into Douglas. The whole section
of the city between Fifth street and
the line was deserted The American
custom house was under heavy fire
and the citizens sheltered there took
refuge in a deep ditch. Jack Hamil-
ton, fourteen years old, from Naco
Ariz., standing on building on the
corner of Sixth street and Railroad
avenue, half a mile north of the inter
national line, was struck by spent
Mauser bullet 1t pierced his coat
and shirt and the point entered the
flesh of the left breast. The boy
gamely got up and pulled the bullet
out and put it in his pocket for SOU
venir
Oscar x. Coll, newspaper man.
was shot in the side of the head on
Fourth street He was the first Amer
lean wounded on the American side
in the battle. Bullets struck resi-
dences of Robert Rae, on Eighth
street, and A. w. War;, secretary CT
the Y. M. G. A, on Eighth street The
families moved out.
Colonel Skunk, commanding the
American troops, said he would not dc
anything about it. having no orders
from Washington.
Governor Sloan of Arizona was on
the international line during the fight
ing. He got the cavalry to drive back
1000 American and Mexican men
women and children, including many
mothers with babies in go-carts, from
the danger zone.
In the first attack the federals were
repulsed. After short rest, they at
tackled again, then hesitated for a
short time and resumed the attack the
third time. The rest of the day the
fighting was almost continuous. More
than 1900 federals were pitted against
the rebel garrison of 1000.
Responding to "a telegram from Gov
ernor Sloan of arizona, asking if
nothing can be done to relieve the sit
uation, President Taft telegraphed:
''Have made urgent demand on Mexi-
can government to use means to pre-
vent firing across the border by Next
can federal troops and am awaiting
reply. Meantime | have sent direct
warning to Mexican insurgent forces
near Douglas | infer from your dis
patch that both parties attempted to
ASCQ TIC OuC III CAO oil dAhOu
exigency of the contest wild bullets
still find their way into Douglas. The
situation might justify ME in ordering
our troops across the border and at
tempt to stop fighting or to fire upon
both combatants from the American
side, but if l take this step | must face
the possibility of resistance and
greater blodshed and also the danger
of having our motives misconstrued
and misrepresented and of infaming
the Mexican people against many
thousands of Americans now in Mex.
leo and jeopardizing their lives"