The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-03-13
Secretary Of War Dickinson
Makes Public Statement on
Concentration Question
CONDITION bR0DER|nG ON
PANIC PREVAILS N COUNTRY
Insurgents Believe the Uprising Has
Reached a Critical Point and Are
Exerting Efforts to Destroy Rail.
roads and Telegraph Lines.

not believe there will be any .
movement of our troops into
Mexico" This was the statement
here today of r. M. Dickinson,
secretary of war, who sails for
Panama this afternoon. {.
Ell Paso. Tex. March ia special
dispatch to the Herald this morning
from Nivojoa, Sonora, states that
there was a spirited engagement al
that place Saturday between $50 in
surrectos and fifty federale. The In
surrectos succeeded in capturing the
town with the loss Of one killed and
two wounded. The federals rallied
near the town and are awaiting rein
forcements. It 10 said, however, that
the insurrectos had burned the rail-
road bridge to prevent the arrival of
more federals.
Panic Prevails.
El Paso. Tex, March 1s.-Condi-
tions bordering on panic prevailed
throughout northern Mexico las
night Stirred by the belief that th =
revolutionary movement has reached
q critical stage. the insurrectos in the
states Of Chihuahua and Sonora az
reported to have redoubled activity ia
tearing up railroads and telegraph
wires. Numerous towns, according to
reports are under siege by the in-
surrectos and thousands Of women
and children cut OF from food sup
plies are rendered helpless.
Following the receipt OF corrected
details concerning the battle at Casas
Grandes . town Of about 800 people
about $50 miles southwest Of m Pa6o
whore 30 men were killed last Mon.
day, news reached here Of q fight al
noon today at Aqua Prieta, on the
border across the river from Doug
lass, Ariz. Five hundred insurrectos
attacked 500 federal troops but were
repulsed with a total Of ''thirty-flve
dead and wounded on both sides.
. The lighting. was short and the In
surrectos, armed only with rifles
chine gun.
What is believed to be reliable
report Of the casualties at Casas
Grandes says that fffteen Americans
were killed and seventeen Americans
were taken prisoners.
The following at first reported to
have been killed are known to have
escaped:
Lieutenant Colonel Guiseppi Carl
baldi, Raoul Madero, brother Of Fran
cisco I. Madero, so-called provisional
president Of the insurrectos; Captain
Gutierrez de Lara, and Lieutenant I.
Valencia OF Ell Paao.
Captain Eduardo May. a Mexican of
Madero's personal staff, was not kill
ed, but was taken a prisoner. Raoul
Madero was wounded.
r. +. Harrington, a former sergeant
in the United States army, who lived
at FL Paso; Robert E. Lee and Robert
Evans of San Francisco and Roy
Glenn. a boy. Of Mineral Springs,
Tex, we're killed. The names of the
Americans killed or taken prisoners
are not known.
A letter written by Madero was re-
ceived here today in which he denied
he made another attack on the town
after he was driven away. He as
serts, however. that he has gathered
q force Of 1000 men and is now with
in few miles of the town. His ex-
planatfon OF the defeat is that several
scouts. sent out to reconnoiter before
the attack, failed to report the COM
ing Of Colonel Cuellar with federal
force.