The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-09
|s.,d;er of Fortune and His
Rand of 80 Americans
Attack 500 Mex
ican Troops.
|rw LIVE TO TELL
STORY OF BATTLE
Valisms Struck by Shell,
Is Dying in Hospital
at Calexico, Across
the Line.

Il ascl.t1 ~
|gExUALI. Mexico. April s.-Gen-
n Stable Williams hurled his little
|a,Eop of rebels against Colonel Mi
rlNsyot' S 500 Mexican regulars on
4 rssa 6ve miles south of MeXicall
In Eighty insurrectos went into
faht. twenty returned from the
&Hlsfsld.
ElIljams himself was fatally wound.
md is now in the Calexico custom
~ With bis head torn by fragment
Is an exploding shell. With a half.
g fucitiyes of his fleeing command
vas overtakcn by federal shell
"a liz in their midst and sent up Il
NJ Of fame and smoke and frag-
,t Of haman bodies. His wagon
6 were captured with nearly all
a. stores and livestock which he
9 d his raid yesterday on American
|4en
n Wounded Put to Death.
IskiyoTs Struggling into MeXicali to.
d declare that the fcderals took
,fisoners. Al those not killed by
ste OF the federal rifles. machine
y and artillery were, il is alleged
Uttered mercilessly by bayonets in
kinds of federal soldiers. These
N also, it is declared, fred on the
lal lent and ambulance which ae-
ahIed the rebels to the battlefield.
b. B. Larkins, the surgeon in
"a, and his assistants. who reached
ali With the survivors. appealed
q United States authorities to send
tio& aid 10 The scene of the bat
I'd save those they could of the
nd.d,
w Of the rebel rcpulse was
ti by mounted rebel who, Wit b
un nearly shot off, fell exhausted
m horse in front Of the head
d'B OF the insurrecto commander.
~, General Salinas, and burst into
" have been slaughtered. - he
Ny pal was killed beside me.
sia who his conrade was, he re-
saeIal Stanley -
Williams Fatally Injured.
sams was still known rs stan.
% biz men of the .'iudependen,
y Of the liberal army, despite
Ntlation of his real name and
!, eu That he WAS a deSerter from
pnih lnfastry Of the United States
later he WAS brought in alive
aonunnced fatally wounded and
70 the United States army hos
INC custom house at CaleXico
T Tie line.
ueneral Salinas heard of hi:
mates fate. he maintained hi,
= eaim. - | told him he was ;
'en b. said he was going out 1,
2 Nm s he remarked philosopb
he bad remained here tn,
would have been forced to at
position of our own choos
oidered him TO go ont, but onl,
= demanded il
~ detall Of Williams s sorti,
~ entrenched position of tn,
m ,sie IN Mexlcali emphasized TN
y 1ls assault On the ovcrwhclm
,E.sl iorce. With his troops i,
~ formation u; 4 column o
ndrclIed directly south afte
SWe sixty-iJot wash of the New
S%eh surrounds tic town OF
III i,tie' itJie' and constitutes Its mos
y" v'e defense His cavalry, num-
. rsn'yseven, formed the ad
in Tor his infantry, and il
,n brought mp lis wagon train
we supplies and livestock u
recent raids as II fully con
eaDIting his way through tn
,c ihe ambuIancc, :, convcrte,
= bassn bss from the Cu,lnhy ranch
BEGINNING of Baltic,
! q e9,s; aashes the cavairy advance
!. ~ Ev'er' while The infantry wait
sbt ~ rss at . a. m. Two hours Va
H lsa, ,sssv4uhte:ed the first outpost
:, d In u.oree, four mites south O
~. ~ ~ va ~ayot 5 men of the Eight
~ ~. s'en smokeless powder, bu
~ e,,,gl H9gl The black powder Of til
uA : a ss.srhigcs revealed their Doe
sel SHOT. Williams dcpIoyc
Rti ~ n. open order 10 render the 'fir
n .sa IT, machine guns and arti
% & /kpsd ;.sastrous. The ambulanc
b ros, u 2 clnmp Of trees on til
q in,a while the rebel battle lin
,m s, ser ~ neld of barley and III
" s.1i;, the growing grain q,
4 =
nsors IN apparently deiiberal
,,h51 ttd LOT (. battle Sunday, Ma,
sgc lssc H. o'effpTised bg The attack an
!! !'sl' - dS, looked as ii Williams
u v 6gl, -uc unexpected and tai
on ~ est IN W the enemy might SUI
y iew minutes the barrie
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