The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-04-20
MEXICAN BULLETS
HIT AMERICANS
Residents of Douglas Wounded
During Hot Battle.
REBELS ARE AGAIN VICTORS
Dlaz Troops Lose Heavily In Fight
With lnsurrectos at Aqua Prieta
Mayor Protests to
Taft.

Douglas, Ariz., April 18.-After an
All-day battle, the most terrific con
fict that has thus far marked the
Mexican revolution, victory crowns
the arms of the ! ,OO0 rebels defending
the border town of Aqua Prieta.
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 con
cerned President Tafts demand that
/ hostilities be conducted in zone in
surlng safety to the Americans was
utterly disrcsarded.
Seven Americans Are Hit.
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 Pres
dent Taft by Mayor Mcclure as fol
lows
Six persons have been shot in
Douglas during battle between MeXi-
can federals and insurreCtos. Battle
still raging. Worst yet TO come. Bull
let's falling all over city. Cannot
something be done for our population?
Signed $. f. McGuire, mayor of
Douglas"
simultaneously with this protest,
Lieut. Col. William A. Skunk. com
manding the United States troops
here, wired a list of known TO be
wounded in this city.
Public sentiment is rapidly reaching
the danger point, and one newspaper
has openly called for Intervention in
Mexico.
Streets Of Douglas Unsafe.
From four O'Clock in the afternoon
until late in the night 1t was not safe
on any street in Douglas for people,
mauser bullets striking residences,
business blocks, shelters, railroad
| shops and cars and cutting wires and
riCOChctting 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-
ort as they proposed the rebels in.
/ trcnched 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 a dis
lance Of six blocks, but notwithstand-
ing all their efforts several persons
/ We're wounded. The inhabitants of
/ Douglas, despite the obvious danger
. were not to be denied the spectacle of
battle. They crowded the roofs in
/ vast througs and darkcnod every point
/ Of vantage throughout the long hours
/ of conflict
/ That more were not wounded is
4 surprising but that any were wound
ed at all leaves Washington with a
I grave problem to face. 50 far as can
be determined when dusk stopped the
/ fighting the rebel loss was trifling.
I consisting of several score wounded
and about twenty dead, while the fed
1 eral losses are estimated at more than
/ 200
Battle Was Thrilling.
/ In all particulars the battle was a
| thrilling and dramatic novelty in this
war of outposts. It began with the
/ first rays of dawn and continued at in
/ torvals throughout the day, marked by
! ferocious and determined battling on
/ both sides and by quality of yalor
/ not expected or hitherto displayed in
. this desultory internal war. The 20
sitions Of the rebels throughout was
! that of the defensive, Protected by
intrcnchments 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 federaIs, suggestive Of the old
! shoulder to shoulder days of the
! American rebellion In an open
/ stretch OF desert, little like theater,
/ by the blazing rays Of an April sun,
the two forces exchanged a perpetual
/ fusillado, hour after hour that marked
up a conflict Of exceptional ferocity
/ and determination. Throughout the
night the Mexican troops had been en-.
campcd at Sulphur Springs, a water
hole five miles south OF Aqua Prieta
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