The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1911-04-14
AMERICAN TROOPERS
TERMINATE BATTLE
Sight-seers on the Line Wounded
Arizona Town Peppered---Federal
Troops Evacuate Their Post

Special by United Press.
/ Douglas, Apr 14- Mexican insurrec
los are today in complete possession Of
the town OF Aqua Prieta as result d
The battle yesterday afternoon in
which they were lead BY Red Lopez
Two Americans were killed and sew
eral persons who were standing neal
the international boundary line watch
ing the battle were wounded
The battle was stopped when Capt
Gauiot Of the First U. S. cavalry sent
40 troopers across the line and Undue.
ed the federals to cease firing. Tie
federals then evacuated the town.
Aqua Prieta, Mex, April IA 1Via
Douglas, Ariz) During battle last
ing all yesterday afternoon and which
resulted in the capturing Of this city
BY the rebels. commanded by Red
Lopez, American troops crossed the
border and stopped the fighting.
The action was taken after one man
had been killed and several wounded
in Douglas and the continued firing
was endangering the lives Of Ameri-
cans on United States territory. Doug
las was under constant fire three
hours.
Aqua Prieta is the terminal of the
Nacozari railroad into Sonora ana il
the most Important point en the border
between Ell Paso and the Pacific
ocean.
Lopez captured the Nacobari train
on its southbound trip yesterday and
held it near Fronteras until today
when, with his troops aboard, number
ing $50, it steamed back to Aqua Prize
ia. Scarcely had the rebels detrained
when the firing began.
The rebels deployed the firing line
up and down the Nacozari railroad
tracks from Aqua Prieta station to the
American customs house. With the
opening Of the battle there began a
rush Of American sightseers from
Douglas to the international line, the
greater number pausing at the Gus
toms house. The rebels with little
rushes kept moving northward toward
the customs house till they were with
in its shadows.
The rebels swung up along the in
ternational line, taking possession Of
the Mexicans guard house which the
federals had made their ammunition
magazine. A squad Of is fought from
this shelter with Lopez commanding.
This house is only 70 feet from the
line where hundreds Of Americans
stood AS the rebels swung around to
this flank it brought the federal fire
from Aqua Prieta directly in line with
the American custom house Tele-
phone poles were spattered, shots dug
up the sand on all sides, but the sight
.seers mad with enthusiasm, of the
fight, stood their ground.
Dickson, the American, shot
through the thigh, had taken up a po-
sition behind little dirt emhankment
to the south Of Nacozari station on
the Mexican side with station en-
pIoye. Both waved their white hand
kerchiefs at squad Of federals bur
the sign Of peace was answered BY a
volley Of shots, one of which struck
Dickson as he lay on the ground.
At 1886 o'clock Captain J. E. Qua
iot Of Troop X, First cavalry, II. S. a.
learned Of the attack on Aqua Prieta
and ordered his command OF forty
troopers to the international line. Be
tween the customs house and the first
monument the FEDERAL bullets and
those from the rebel rifles farther
south pecked and busted the desert
Into this rode the United States caval
~, deploying along the line.
The bullets whistled over the line
and one trooper was grazed on the
arm AS the federal fire continued tc
pour into the American city bullets
struck as far north as Fifteenth street
One plowed through a store and an
other struck the Western Union Tel
egraph office building. At the Doug
las freight depot for time there was