Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1911-04-21
PREVENT MEXICAN TROOPS RE-
TAKING Aqua PRIETA AFTER
ALL-DAY BATTLE.
SEVEN AMERICANS ARE SHOT
Citizens of Douglas, Ariz., Hit by Bull
lets While Fight RACES Across
Border-Diaz Troops Suffer Heavy
Loss In Killed and Wounded.

all-day fight, the most sanguinary con-
flict of the Mexican revolution.
The desperate effort of the 1900
Mexican national troops under Lieu
tenant Colonel Diaz to retake the city
has failed and the federals have suf
fered heavy losses in killed and
wounded. So far as Douglas was
concerned President Taft's demand
that hostilities be conducted in
zone insuring safety. to the Ameri-
cans was utterly disregarded.
Throughout the battle bullets rained
necessarily in the streets and riddled
the houses of this little Arizona town
The only reliable data of casualties
that can be obtained on the American
side of the line were seven American
men and women have been wounded.
most of them while going about their
business many blocks north Of the
supposed border line The wounded
in Douglas are being cared for at
Red Cross hospitals. established for
Mexican wounded
A protest has been wired to Presi-
dent Taft by Mayor Mcclure as fol-
lows: six persons have been shot
in Douglas during battle between
Mexican federals and insurrectos
Battle still raging Worst yet to
come. Bullets falling all over city.
Cannot something be done for our
population? Signed, S. F. Mcclure,
mayor of Douglas"
simultaneously with this protest,
Lieut.. Col William A Skunk, COM
manding the United States troops
here, wired list of known to be
wounded in this city. Public senti-
ment is rapidly reaching the danger
point. and one newspaper has open
ly called for Intervention In Mexico
From four o'clock in the afternoon
until late in the night it was not safe
on any street in Douglas for people,
mauser bullets striking residences,
business blocks, smelters, railroad
shops and cars and cutting wires and
ricochetting from telegraph and tele-
phone poles. And military authorities
here say the worst is yet to come In
stead of fighting the battle in the des-
ert as they proposed the rebels in
trenched in and around Aqua Prieta
in such fashion as to make hopeless
Douglas immune from bullets, and the
federal army instead of attacking
from the east or west as has been
promised advanced from the south
west. which placed Douglas much in
the same situation as the background
of target
American troops did everything pos
sible to protect the unfortunate Doug
las residents. Spectators were driven
back from the boundary line dis
lance of six blocks. but notwithstand-
ing all their efforts several persons
were wounded. The inhabitants OF
Douglas. despite the obvious danger.
were not to be denied the spectacle Of
battle. They crowded the roofs in
vast throngs and darkened every point
of vantage throughout the long hours
of conflict
That more were not wounded is
surprising. but that any were wound
ed at all leaves Washington with q
grave problem to face. So far as can
be determined when dusk stopped the
fighting the rebel loss was trifing.
consisting of several score wounded
and about 20 dead, while the federal
losses are estimated at more than 200
In all particulars the battle was a
thrilling and dramatic novelty in this
I NO Of r,tttr - IL
| first rays of dawn and continued at in
| tervals throughout the day. marked by
| ferocious and determined battling on
| both sides and by quality of valor
not expected or hitherto displayed in
| this desultory internal war The DO
sitions of the rebels throughout was
that of the defensive, Protected by
intrenchments they exacted bitter
price from the federal forces instead
of an ineffective clash. usually eli
NAKED by hurried retreat. The fight
was a standup battle on the side OF
the federals, suggestive of the old
shoulder 10 shoulder days of the
American rebellion. In an open
stretch of desert little like a theater
~ inc bldEAhS udgS Vi All AIlEl sun
the two forces exchanged a perpetual
fusillade hour after hour. that marked
up a conflict of exceptional ferocity
and determination Throughout the
night the Mexican troops had beer
encamped at Sulphur Springs. a wa
ter hole five miles south of Aqua
Prieta. Under commend of Lieut.
Col Portirio Diaz, cousin of the presi
dent himself the troops had vowed Il
revenge the descent of Red" Lopc.
and his command on Aqua Prieta