Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-03-13
Renewed Activity Follows
Coming Of U. S. Troops.
Soldiers and Negroes in Bloody
Mix-up al Galveston.
Heavy Rains Make The military
Camps a Sea Of Mud.

FL Paso, Tex, March 12.-Condtions
bordering ON panic reign almost
throughout northern Mexico tonight.
Stirred by the belief that the rcvolu-
tionary movement has reached a criu-
cal stage the InsurreCtOS in the state
of chihuahua and Sonora arc reported
to have renewed activity in tearing up
railroads and telegraph wires. Num-
erous towns, according to reports are
under siege BY the lnSurrectoS and
thousands of women and children, cut
off from food supplies are helpless.
Following the receipt Of corrected de-
tails concerning the battle tasas
Grandes, a town of about 500 inhabi-
tants, about 150 miles southwest of
FL Paso where 80 men were killed last
Monday, news reached h re of fight
at noon today at Aqua Prieta. on the
border across the river from Douglass,
AriZ Five hundred InSurrectos at
tackled 800 federal troops but were re-
pulsed with a loss OF 81 dead and
wounded on both sides The fighting
was short and the Insurrectos, armed
only with rifles, soon scattered under
the fire of 4 machine gun. What is
believed to be a reliable report OF the
casualties at Casas CirandcS says that
II Americans We're killed ana Il
Americans We're taken prisoners.
The following ut first reported 10
have been killed are known To have
escaped: Lieut.. Gol. Cuiseppi Carl
baldi, Raoui Madero. brother of Fran
cisco Madero. So called provisional
president of the Insnrrcctos. capt.
Gutierrez De Lara ard Lieut.. |. VAL
encia of FL Paso. capt. Eduardo May
a Mexican on Maderos personal staff,
was not Killed, but was taken prisoner
Raoul Madero WIS wounded.
II. F. Harrington, former sergeant in
the United States army. no lived at FL
Pas0; Robert L. Lee and Robert Evans
of San Francisco. and Roy Glenn. a boy
from Mineral Springs Texas. were killed.
The names of the Americans killed or
taken prisoners are not known.
\ letter written by Madcro was roceiv-
ed here today in which ne denied he made
another attack on the town after he was
driven away. He asserts. however. that
he has gathered force of 100 men and
is now within a fcW miles of the town.
His explanation of the defeat is that sew
eral scouts sent out To reconnoiter before
the attack failed to report the coming
of Col. Guelar with federal force. The
unexpected arrival of the fedcrals result
ed In n panic among the insurrectoS The
scouts he said had been shot
The news from Mexico City that Presi-
dent Diaz has decided to take advantage
of provisions of the constitution so that
summary death may he imposed by the
military authorities for any acts Of vio-
lence. and that the Mexican government
has decided to wage a sharp and decisive
war of determination speedily to end hos
tilties, has spread throughout the insur
gent ranks The reply, through insurrecto
sympathizers here. Is that in retaliation
the revolutionary forces hereafter will
expect and give no quarter"
Information from InsurrcCtO sources
is shat the attitude of the Mexican
governments will intensity n situation
already tense and it will necessarily
impose further hardships on non-com-
batants. including women and children.
living in the small towns scattered
throughout the War zone"
No word has come from the city
Of chihuahua for seven DAYS.
The last report was that the food
question already had become critical
The presence in the city of 1000 federal
troops under Gen. Juan Hernandez
while looked upon as sufficient pro-
lection against an attack is thought
to have more than ordinary depeleted
rations.
Like conditions prevail in many
smaller towns.
The best information obtainable here
as TO the strength of the opposing
ei Loo In, China
is that the federals under Gen. Ma
varro have 5000 men. of which 1000
are IN Chihuahua City, $50 in Juarez
and the rest scattered while the In
surrectos under Madero and Don Pas
quale Orozco have about equal num-
bers but with no one force larger than
1000.
The arrival of United States troops
of the 4th Cavalry from Fort Mead.
s. D.. with four more troops due to-
morrow from Fort Smelling. Mimi.
and the troops ALREADY here. they will
compose force of 300 men under
Gel. l.. T.. Steevcr
Galveston Texas, March ia race
riot was precipitated early today by
the Stabbing of Winfield Joel, a SOL
dicr from the camp at Fort Crockett
by an unidentified Negro in a resort
One Mexican and four Negroes were
severely beaten and the house in front
or which the stabbing occurred, was
set on fire and burned to the ground
. The entire police force of the city was
sscalled out 10 quiet the disturbance.
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