The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-10
MADER0 ATTACKS JUAREZ IN
 BL00DIEST BATTLE OF WAR
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-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>~~~~ detachment of insurrectos ran across the
 plain in direct fire of the federa1s to
 effect a sortie which might draw the federals from the church which they held,
 General Madero became visibly excited. He was eager to go to the front and | thrust himself into the battle, but his staff officers restrained him. The insurrectos tonight practically con- | trol the river front and are aiding refu- l gees, especially women and children. in reaching places of safety. They have
 procuring food In the houses where they
 have quartered themselves.
 | While General Navarro is said to have
 sufficient ammunition and provisions to
 hold out at least a week against the kind of attack the rebels made today,
 the rebels, 1t is said, are able to harrass Navarro for that length of time. They
 made considerable progress today, how ever, and 1t would cause no surprise if
 they captured the town in another days
 fighting.
 Some of the enthusiastic rebel political leaders in Fl Paso, who thought that
 Juarez had been practically taken sent | telegrams to General Navarro suggest l ing that he surrender the town in the l interest of humanity. The old general I smiled when he received these requests and continued to give orders to his staff. | General Navarro was reported to have l been seen walking about the streets, d- | recting the fighting, but insurrectos deny | this.
 Members of the insurrecto army are I known to be watching for the federal | leaders, and though they have orders not
 to shoot they will try to take him prison-
 CT. They tried hard to find him today
 and tonight one detachment of insurrec- | tos is planning to capture the federal commander tomorrow.
 Bullets Pour Into Fl Paso
 Bullets poured into Fl Paso all day. but | the American troops kept sightseers three 1 blocks away from the river front l Privates Emileo Garcia and Cassidy of l the rebel American legion, came to Fl
 Paso this morning to get food. They
 stated 15 Americans already had been killed and wounded, that the rebels losses | would probably reach 150 killed and
 wounded and that the federal loss was
 more than double that amount. | Tn one trench I counted 1T dead fed
 erals and in another 3S. They were
 stripped of most of their clothing" said | Cassidy.
 1 Colonel Garibaldi is in command of the
 so-called American Legion of insur- | rectos and they are fighting their way | to the bull ring. The rebels have poured a stream of shrapnel and solid shot into the city. One of the guns is manned by American and French artllerymen The last rebel demand to the federals
 to surrender the town of Juarez was transmitted to Judge Carbajal, the fed eral peace envoy this afternoon The decision to attack the federal forces was made after the envoys, sent shortly after midnight to General Navarro, re- turned saying he refused to surrender.
 For an armistice agreement he referred l, 4t, (to rl, iol
 envoy, but he, too, refused to enter into
 an agreement with part of the rebels already in Juarez.
 The firing by the insurrectos was begun by a small detachment of men stationed in an adobe house near the state bridge. With the machine guns leveled to sweep the main streets of
 Juarez, they waited patiently for the first break of dawn and opened fire. | Thousands of residents of Fl Paso for hours have been watching from roof tops and points of vantage but
 American troops ordered everybody on the American side to stay three blocks | away from the river front The range of the federal artillery was remarkably accurate their shells landing close to the oncoming insur-
 rectos and forcing them to scatter their l advance. It is obvious that the heavy artillery of the federals has given then, a tremendous advantage
 | Small bands of rebels could be seen
 marching from the Madero camp to- ward Juarez along the river front and
 1t appeared probable that they would send detachment to attack Juarez on
 its opposite side. The federal machine
 guns kept up a sweeping fire within every radius of the town. The cannonading continued slowly, | The rebels used tn cir machine guns sparingly. while the federals poured
 their shells into the insurrecto out 1 posts.