Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-04-09
Eighty Desperate Men Attack
Mexican FederaIS, Five Hun
dred Strong, and are Ruth
IeSSly Slaughtered,
BELIEVED BATTLE ENDS
WAR IN CALIFORNIA BAlA
General Stanley Williams, De-
Serter from United States
Army Mortally Wounded by
Shell from Cannon.
NY Morning journal Special Leased wirei

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased wireI
Moxicali, Mex, April S,---Gen. STAN
ley Williams hurled his little battalion
of rebels against Col Miguel Mayols
500 Mexican regulars on the mesa
five miles south OF Mexical tonight.
Eighty insurrectos went into the iight;
twenty returned from the battlefield.
Williams himself was fatally wound-
ed and IL now In the customs house
here with his head torn by frag-
ment from an exploding shell. With
half a dozen fugitives OF his fleeing
command he was overtaken by a fed
eral shell that liz in their midst ana
sent up q geyser of flame and smoke
and fragments OF human bodies. His
wagon trains were captured with near
ly all OF the stores and live stock
which he took in his raid yesterday
on American ranchers.
Survivors struggling into Mexlcali
tonight declare that the federaIs took
no prisoners. All those not killed by
the tlre OF the federal machine guns
and artillery were, Il IL alleged,
slaughtered mercllessly by bayonets in
the hands of federal soldiers These
latter also, 1t Is declared. fired on
the hospital tent and ambulance which
| accompanied the rebels to the battle
| field. DR., W. B. Larkins. the surgeon
In charge, and his ass.arrnts who
reached MeNieali with the survivors
appealed to uBlied States authorities
| to send Red Cross aid to The scene of
the battle and save those they could
of the wounded.
News OF the rebel repuse was
brought by a mounted rebel who, with
one arm nearly shot off. fell exhaust
ed from his horse In front of the
headquarters Of the lnsurrecto COM
mandor.in chief, Gen, Salinas. and
burst into tears
I'VE have been slaughtered, he
cried. my pal was killed beside me-
Asked who his comrade was, he re-
Piled
General Stanley"
Williams was still known as Stan
ley 10 his men of the independent
division OF the liberal army" despite
the revelation Of his real name and
the fact that he was n deserter from
the Ninth infantry of the United States
army. Later he was brought in alive.
but pronounced fatally wounded, and
taken to the United States army hos
pital In the customs house at Calex-
leo. across the line.
When Gen. Salinas heard OF his
subordinate's fate he maintained his
stoical calm.
II told him he was Il fool when he
said he was going out to fight them.
he remarked, philosophcally "If he
had remained here the federals would
have been forced to attack us in
position of our own choosing. orr
dered him to 20 out. but only when
he demanded it,
Every detail of Williams sortie
from the intrenchod position nf the
rebels here in Medrali emphasized the
daring Of the assault on the over
whelming federal forces, With his
troops In the military formation of n
column OF twos he marched directly
south after crossing the sixty-foot
wash of the New river which sur
rounds the town on three sides and
constitutes its most formidable de-
Tense. His cavalry. numbering TWEEN
ty-seven, formed the advance guard
for his infantry. and In the rear
brought up his wagon train with all
the supplies ana live stock taken in
his recent raids as II fully confident
OF cutting his way through the fed
erals.
The ambulance. covered wagon
behind.
On short dashes the cavalry ad-
vanced TO reconnoiter, while the in
fantry waited. This was at n. IN.
Two hours later they encountered the
first outposts OF Mayol's force, four
miles south of Mexicali Mayol's men
of the Eighth battalion used smoke
less powder, but the smoke from the
black powder of the rebels cartridges
revealed their position at each shot.
Williams deployed his men In open
order to render the fire of the federal
machine guns and artillery least de-
structlve. The anihultnee WIS past
ed IN olump of trees on the little
ranch while the rebel battle line
plunged into a field Of barley and.
under cover of the growing grain, adj
vancd steadily,
Engrossed In apparently deliberate
preparations for battle Sunday.
Mayol seemed surprised by the at
tack and for time Il looked as IL
Williams idea of doing the une&pC- ted
and taking the fight TO the enemy
might succeed. But In few min itess
the barley was trampled fiat and the
exposed Insurgents were then subject-
ed 10 their first real experience of ma
chine gun fire.
Tho automatcs spat viciously from
the federal main position on the south