The gold leaf., 1911-02-09
REBELS FIGHT
LOYAL TROOPS
HuTI Infantry Train From Track
and Battle Follows.
THEY WILL STORM JAUREz
Border City Is Nearly Deserted and
Patrolled by Federal Soldiers-All
Relief Cut Off.

The battle of Bauche, the first fight |
attending the assault on Ciudad !
JuareZ, Mexico, is now being fought |
Since Saturday night there has been !
fighting in progress, but none of 1t
has been bloody or spirited.
The federals, under command of
Colonel Robago, are trapped at the
base of a series of small hills twelve
miles from JuareZ, surrounded by in
surrectos, and only by a miracle can
they escape.
The rebels had only lost two killed
and three wounded in the all day
fight. The federal loss was not known,
bu tas the federal soldiers had the
shelter of their train their loss is not
believed to be heavy.
Another report says the federal
forces escaped and are now fleeing
in the direction of Juarez, with OrOzco
and his men close behind them.
Messengers Immediately LETT for E1
Paso and do not know the extent of
the losses on either side, but believe
they were heavy.
First reports were that the train
was able to move south, but Colonel
Manuel Chico, of the insurrecto force,
Gays the engine was wrecked so that
1t could not get back and al of Ro-
bago's command are prisoners.
Chico came to Ell Paso with mes
sages for Abram Gonzales, provisional
governor of Chihuahua, under insur-
recto regime.
Pascual Orozco's command of boot
ed and spurred insurrectos slept calm
ly through the night ten mii>s from
town and were fresh for the fray.
OrozCo had declared positively that
he would attack not later than Sun
day, but first he would give his tired
men rest and sleep and prepare them
for the supreme test.
All night the tired, drowsy senti-
nels walked the narrow streets. or
paced the adobe roofs of the ancient
church of Guadalupe, the low, fiat
municipal building or the grotesque
little postoffice structure that half
century ago housed BenitO JuareZ
| when he was rallying his men for the
| fight against Maximilan in this very
same town, which OrOzco hopes to
| make the capital of insurrectionary
Mexico in 1911.
Americans and foreigners were kept
| off the streets during the night, and
| the little city of 10000 souls in normal
| times, now a town of scarcely 5000
| because the population has fed to Ell
Paso for protection, was quieter even
at night than it had been during the
| day after the American consul had
warned the foreigners to leave and
the mayor had ordered all places Of
business closed and even the natives
| off the streets.
| Soldiers marched. from corner to
corner and secuted or galloped from
| one lookout point to another during
the night.
| Every man sat with his rife on his
lap or near at hand. Some peered
from the tallest buildings at the flick
ering camp fires across the broad
mesa, the same sight they had wit
messed for three nights, with the same
dread OF the daylight palpitating their
| hearts.
Late in the evening Pascual OrOZco,
the rebel commander, had completed
the work of isOlating Juarez from the
rest of the world by tearing up the
tracks of the Mexican Northwestern
| railroad, over which the beleaguered
city had hoped to get relief from the
south.
The rebel leaders then put a tele-
| graph operator somewhere down the
line, who replied to all desperate calls
from Juarez with the patriotic "ViyA
| Madero."
| With the bridges burned on the
| Mexican Central and the tracks torn
up for forty miles south. all hope OF
relief from that source is cut of