Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-29
PEACE WILL COME
WITHIN TEN DAYS
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duce foreign countries to reorganize the
belligerency OF the insurrectos, It Is stated.
Dispatches from chihuahua City today
say General Rabago with LOO federal
troops has reached the city, after having
been on the march from Juarez since
February "a. Rabago went south to repair
the burned bridges of the Mexican
National railroad. Most Of the bridges have
been burned again behind him.
chihuahua City is now said to be we'll
fortified and commanded by $500 federals.
1t is reported a detachment OF federals
soon will be started northward to find
and engage Madero.
VIII Cut Off Fuel supply.
Advices received here today are to the sf-
feet thai the insurrectos plan to destroy the
railroad bridges south Of San Luis Potosi
and prevent fuel oil shipments have been
discovered. This would have tied up the
Mexican National railway system and
many industrial enterprises in Mexico, as
most Of Mexicos oil comes from the Ebano
fields south Of San Luis Potosi
The closing Of a mining company's plant
at Topic, capital of the state OF Topic has
thrown thousands out of work and lie caus-
ing riots. Many Of the men, 1t is feared,
will join the insurrectos.
Federal Officials Slain.
Mail sdvices from Alamos, Sonora, con-
firm the report that revolutionists led by
Loya slaughtered every federal official of
the town of Guazaparas, near the Sonora
line in Chihuahua, when they took the
town. All were placed in Jail and shot A
young telegraph operator alone escaped.
He fell with the others beneath the dead
and crawled out twelve hours later alive
and made his way barefooted to Chinipas
forty miles away.
InsurFeetOs Badly Defeated.
CANANEA, Mex, March 8.-OfficIal
government reports have reached Canansa
OF an overwhelming rebel defeat near Ures
few miles northwest OF Hermoslllo, the
capital OF Sonora, yesterday morning. The
rebels are said to have lost seventy killed
and more than 100 wounded. The federal
loss is given as sixteen dead and twenty
wounded. The fight lasted from a. m.
until Z p. m.
The official dispatch adds that 200 rebels
are now surrounded at Hacienda San
Rafael.
General Juan Cabral, the rebel leader,
commanded 300 men at Ures. The federals,
in three columns under Generals OEeda,
Barron and Chiapa, attacked Cabral from
three sides. No account Of the battle,
other than the official dispatches, have
been received.
ARSrtBan Socialist Executed,
MEXICALI, March IA fugitive from
the fight at Alamo, which occurred on the
End, reached Mexioan today with the
startling information that Simon Berthold,
the American socialist insurgent leader,
was wounded In the lung at the battle.
taken prisoner and executed three days
later at Ensenada.
Seven rebels In all, It lie reported, were
captured by the federals at Alamo and ex-
ecuted at Ensenada. Gloom pervades the
rebel camp. According to information
which has leaked out General LeyVa lost
twenty men in the recent attack on Tecate.
General Leyva began his retreat from
Teeate at O'Clock last wednesday morn
ing when his ammunition became ex-
hausted. Leyva retired at full speed on
horseback, leaving his foot soldiers to
their fate. Only the reluctance of the fed
eral troops insleavinE their entrenched po-
sitlons saved the rebels from utter route.
DiEnSwitty Not Executed.
WASHINGTON, March Ss.-Furthsr evil
dsnce that John Hamilton DignOwitty, an