Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-29
STORY OF CLAYTOKS
 DEATH IN BATTLE IS
 BROUGHT IN LETTER
q PaSo Paper Prints Ac- count Written Several
 Days After Fight
CLAYTON HIT FOUR TIMES

The details Of the fight in which Walter Clayton. brother of Mrs. E. C. Reynolds Of Bisbee. was killed, are told in a delayed post dis patch to the Fl Paso Herald. the dispatch being dated Culiacan, Sir aloa. Mexico. April 23 A letter received by Mrs. Reynolds of Bis bee from Sinaloa gave no details except that Clayton perished in an attack on a federal force Of 5OG men. having only 65 men, and that ] Clayton continued fighting until he received the fourth bullet. the last one. a dum-dum, piercing his head and killing him.
 [ While the dispatch states that Claytons force numbered 100 men when he left Tamazula. # also states that this force was consid- eiably depleted by desertion and the private advices of Mrs. Key holds that Clayton's attacking force numbered only 65 is probably cor. rect. According to the dispatch Clayton met death while charging directly at a machine gun which he desired
 Mrs. Jeff Clayton. aIso or Bis bee, the mother of Walter Clayton, waiting anxiOusiy for details of the news of his death, hoping against hope that he might be spared to her, may have the consolation that her son died a warriors death and left a heritage of bravery that only blood can buy.
 The following is the story from Culiacan, the first publication of which in the Review was incident ally the means of uniting Mrs Clayton and her daughter, Mrs. Key holds, with a relative who had been lost to them for thirty years, John Brooks, until several days ago spe cial officer of the Fl Paso and Southwestern:
 Story of the Battle
 Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico, April 23.-(By maiL)-The federal com mand of Colonel Morelos made its second trlumphal entry into Culia- can on the 18th. returning from three days hard fighting at Las Mil pas and Tamazula, bringing in about POO head of captured horses and saddles and many rifles and cartridges taken from dead insur. rectos.
 The federals numbered about 400 and their first encounter was with an insurrecto band of about 500 at Las Milpas. near the Durango-Si loa line. At this point the insur- recto command of William Clayton. an American, who had been some years in this section in a mining way. made Q desperate stand unti, Clayton got his fourth bullet, a dum-dum. through the head, which killed him. His force then re- treated with considerable loss. It is said that Clayton had come for. ward from Tamazula with over AGO < insmrectos to attack the federals, and that he wished 10 charge right into them and take their machine guns, but his force lost much from assertion and not more. than half of them stayed with him until the fight began, the forces of other iefes making up the estimated 600,
 With the death of Clayton the in- surrectos began to retreat toward Tamazula, in Durango, where they claimed 10 have a force of over 2o00 men, and a running light of three days duration ensued. ending : wiih the federals taking Tamazula after killing about 300 msurrectos snd thoroughly routing every band that could be located there, the killed including several insurrectc jefes.
 The spells Of var included the horse, saddle, sword and hat of Ra- mon Iturbide. the lad Of 22, who . aspired to leadership over all in- surTectos in this region and who made his getaway dressed as a woman.
 Tamazula is a town of about 100C inhabitants, or was. being now en- rirely abandoned to the buzzards that are feasting on the insurrecto dead and about 20 federals who fell there. This fighting demonstrated the inferiority of the InsarTecto armament. ss they could not come up 10 effective range with their A Colt machine gins.