Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-05-11
AQUA PR|ETA AGAIN
IN POSSESSION Of
INsURRECT0S
FEDERAL ARMY DESERTS
FRONTIER TOWN AT DAWN
Reports From Interior of Son.
ora Tell of Widespread Tur-
moiIi Armed Yaqui Indians
Raid Ranches and Towns,
IBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire

10y MORNING. buuFuft NptttNl IttAtN Nifet
Douglas, Ariz., May 10.-Rebel
commanders in the Sonora compaign
took charge of Aqua Prieta tonight
and set up temporary state gov
ernment in the Mexican frontier port
which was abandoned by the federal
garrison early today. This govern
ment will be perfected tomorrow.
General Jose Perfecto Lomelin, COM
mander of the rebel forces in Sonora,
sent temporary officers into Aqua Pri-
eta. Police were posted to patrol the
streets. and before morning Anacleto
Giron and 700 insurrectos are expect
ed to arrive to re-garrison the town.
Americans who reached here from
southern Sonora today reported rebel
bands concentrating for a campaign
against Hermosillo the capital of that
state. Arrivals from Poza. a station
on the Southern Pacific railroad said
that a stream of insurrectos had
been passing through the rich mining
district east of there in the last few
days, all en- route to the capital.
Several of these rebel bands did not
hesitate TO confiscate all the provis-
ions at the camps of American min
ing companies, taking also the stocks
Of powder and dynamite from the
powder houses. These explosives,
they said, would be used in the manu-
facture of bombs to be employed in
the attack on Hermossso.
An automobile recently put into
service between Poza and the min
ing camps in that district was wreck
ed by rebels. who also took the horses
OF the Americans who reached here
today. The refugees had to walk 10
the railroad. ~
According TO reports brought by
these Americans. Sonora is in state
of turmoil from Hermosillo east to
Nacozari and south to the Yaqui river
The federal army of 600 under Col
onel Diaz passed through the Cana
nea Pass west of Aqua Prieta today
without being attacked by the rebels
The Associated Press correspondent
followed Dlaz's forces to the pass In
an automobile. A telephone message
from Naco at pm. stated that the
federal army had not appeared in that
vicinity.
Cananea is reported over private
telephone line to be still quiet, which
indicates that the combined rebel
lOltto nave lbt dPB'dith III tiit ~
nora river valley but are waiting in
the foothills to attack the federal
army marching west.
Giron was on his way to attempt
the recapture of Aqua Prieta when
courlers reached him today informing /
him that II had been evacuated by
the federals. His force Is only few
miles TO the southeast.
The rebels will name officers for
the town tomorrow, including post
master. customs house collectors, jefe
and guards. Since there are no feder- |
al soldiers In all the country from
Douglas south, officials Will be named |
for Fronteras, Nacozari, Tigre. Cos
Cumpas, Sahuaripa and towns along |
the Yaqui river
I'VE will let the people come back |
into the towns and invite them to take |
part In the election of their officials. |
thus putting into practice the prin |
ciple for which we entered into the |
rebellion"
Aqua Prieta is strewn with wreck |
age. s<sld fires were burning in several |
places tonight. The insurrectos are |
already engaged in repairing the |
trenches destroyed by the federals and |
hope to make the town impregnable.
Mines planted by the government sol |
diers are being carefully dug up, the |
dynamite being stored for future use.
The town will be the seat of the pro-
vsional government in Sonora, and
the campaign against the Diaz troops |
will be directed from this point.
In addition to the force of Giron,
another rebel command will arrive
from the south in the morning.
II is said that Colonel Juan Medina,
who was in command during the
battle of April II, and surrendered to
the American troops early next
will be named jcfe in COM
mand Medina was released recently
by the Americans.
The federal forces which evacuated
Aqua Prieta early today arrived safely
at Naco tonight and will proceed to
Nogales. This seems to indicate that
In the hurry to get reinforcements to
Cananea is to be abandon
ed to its fate. From Nogales the fed
eral army probably will attempt to
reach Hermosillo by special train. This
makes Ii virtually certain that Juan
Cabral, Juan Antonio Garcia and
Frank Langston, who with their 1900
men made no attempt today to head
off the retreating federals, will attack
Cananea.