The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-15
SMALL COMMAND
GUARDS DOUGLAS
One Hundred Troopers Under
Captain Caujot is Hope Of
the Americans.
4 BIG BATTLE THREATENS
Aqua Prieta Has Been Reinforced
and Federal Army Is Believed
to Be Heading to that
Place.
Associated Press Special.

Aqua Prieta, Mexico, April
One hundred United States troops
under the command of Captain Jul
liam e. Gaujot, are the hope of Am
erican citizens, residents of Douglas,
Arizona, for protection in case Of a
federal attack on this place.
Federal forces are gathering to
the south of here, and scouts re-
port that they are armed with ma
chine guns and are preparing to at |
tack the thousand or more insurrecto |
soldiers now gathered in Aqua Pri- |
eta. |
Captain Guajot has served notice |
to both sides that he will intervene |
if the fire of the opposing forces |
sweeps Douglas, of which Aqua
Prieta is practically a part.
Douglas is crowded with Ameri- |
cans from all points of the south
west who have come to see the fight
ing.
Aqua Pneta, the principal port of
| entry between Ell Paso and the Pa
\ cific is 10 be made the headquarters
of all rebel operations in the state
of Sonora.
| 1t is openly declared by the rebel
4 commanders that they expect to es
) tablish here a provisional govern
l ment for Sonora and that the insur
: recto officers for this purpose ar
{ now In Douglas waiting for the wore
to cross. the line.
Following the capture of Aqua
Prieta by Red Lopez and his troops
the rebels have been rushing re-
| cruits TO this palce from the east
| west and south, and with their men
all in place they expect to have
fighting force of 500 well armed
men, with which they believe they
can successfully repei any attack the
federal soldiers may make.
Everything points to early en-
gagements here between the feder-
ais and the insurrectos, and 1t is eX-
pcted that the hardest battle yet oc-
curing in this rebellion will be |
matter of history in a very short
while.
The first rebel reinforcements to |
arrive were 400 mounted men led |
by Belsaria Garcia, one OF the best |
known leaders Of the insurrectos IN |
the state of sonora He brought his |
force in hot haste from the Sierra
Madre mountains to lend all possible
aid TO the rebels already here.
Bands of rebels led by Antonio
Garcia. Juan Cabral and Juan Ganda
LARA are mrching northward from
the interior and are expected to ar
rive in Aqua Prieta within short
while.
Several forces of federals are scat
( tered throughout the country from
the south of Aqua Prieta, and they
are massing for combined operation
{ against the town Included in these
I forces are the commands of Colonel
/ Jieda, Commandant Baron, project
( of Chiapa, and Lieutenant Colonel
I Diaz. The headquarters OF these
/ troops have been in Cananea but for
I the last few days they have been in
the field In operation against rebel
bands. Cananea dispatches give the
(. total of these forces at l40o men.
The possession of the Nacozari
/ railroad, running seventy-five mics
from Aqua PHeta TO Nacozari, is or
I vast advantage to the rebels. On the
other hand. however the rebels
control OF the railroad and the clos
ing of the port OF Douglas is SER
ious blow to the great mining inter
ests in this section OF Sonora. Until
the port is opened for entry and the
rebel forces in Aqua Prieta either
are routed or are recognized as bel
Iigerents by the United States gov
eminent. the heavy shipment OF
ores for the Ell Paso and Douglas
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