The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1911-04-13
REBEL FORCE
IS WIPED OUT
An American Army Deserter
Leads Little Band to Death
EIGHTY ATTACKED 500
General Stanley Williams With Do
or Die Spirit Tries the Impossi
bic and His Forces are Swept to
Pieces and Himself Killed,

Pieces and Himself Killed,
Mexicali Texas April H. Gen Stan
ley Williams hurled his little battalion
of rebels against Col. Miguel Mayot's
500 Mexican regulars on the mesa five
milds south Of Mexicali Saturday.
Eighty insurrectos went into fight.
Fifty returned from battlefield.
Williams himself was fatally wouded
and died in the hospital here. With
his fleeing command he was overtaken
by shell, which bursted like geyser
In their midst, sending up flames and
fragments of human bodies. His wagon
trains were captured with nearly all OF
stores and live stock which he took in
his raid Friday, on several ranches.
Survivors struggling into Mexicali do
clared that the federals took no prison
ers. All those not killed by the fire OF
the federal rifles, machine gums and
artillery were, it is alleged, slaughtered
mercllessly by bayonets in the hands
of federal soldiers. These latter also,
it is declared, fired on the hospital tent
and ambulance which accompanied the
rebels to the battlefield. DR.. w. r.
Larkins, the surgeon in charge, and
his assistants, who reached Mexicali
with the survivors, appealed to United
States authorities to send Red Cross
aid to the scene of the battle and save
those they could of the wounded.
News of the rebels repulses was
brought by mounted rebel, who with
one arm nearly shot off, fell exhausted
from his horse in front of the head
quarters of the insurrecto commander
in chief, Gen. Salinas, and bursed into
tears. "We have been slaughtered"
he cried. "My pal was killed beside
me.n
Asked who his comerade was. he re-
piled. seen. Stanley"
Williams was still known at "Stanl.
ey' to his men of the independent div
ision of the liberal army, despite the
revelation of his real name and the fact
thot he was deserter from the ninth
infatry of the United States army.
Later Williams was brought In alive
but pronounced fatally wounded and
taken to the United States army hos
pital in the custom house at Calexico
across the line.
Every detail Of Williams sortie from
the entrenched position of the rebels
here in Mexicali, emphasized the daring
of his his assault on the overwhelming
federal forces. With his troops In the
military formation of a column Of twos,
he marched directly south after CROSS
ing the sixty-foot wash of the new riv-.
or which surrounds the town on three
sides and constitutes its most fOrmid-
able defense. His cavalry, number q,
formerly the advance guard for his in
fantry, and in the rear, brought up his
train with all the supplies and live
stock taken in his recent raids as If fuE-
| ly confident Of cutting his way through
the federals.
The ambulance, a coverted wagon,
taken from the Cudahy ranch, trailed
behind.
On short dashes, the cavalry advanc-
ed TO reco1nnOiter, while the Infantry
waited. This was at 8 a, m. Two
hours later they encountered tho first
outposts of Mayot's force, four miles
south of Mexicali. Mayot's men of the
Eighth battalion used smokeless pow
der, but the smoke from the black pow
derof thelrebel cartridges revealed their
position at each spot.
Williams deployed his men in open
order to render the fire Of the federal
machine guns and artillery least disas-
trous. The ambulance was posted in q
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