Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-05-11
Fighting Is Hot and Rebel Ad-
vance StubbornIy Opposed.
SHOTS EXCHANGED AT NIGHT
Several Principal Buildings of Town
Are Set on Fire by lnsurrecto
Bombs and Consumed
by Flames.

Ell Paso, May 10.-The federal and
fnsurrecto armies in Juarez took some
rest Tuesday night, but the fight which
had been in progress since II o'clock
Monday was never wholly stopped.
Between exchanging shots in the
darkness first, then in the moonlight.
and setting fire to many Of the prin-
cipal buildings, deserted save by the
men who are cOntending for su.
premacy at arms, the night was al,
most as lively as the first night CT the
protracted engagement Beginning
Tuesday morning at 4:30, when a gen
eral engagement opened on orders
from Francisco |. Madero, chief of the
revolutionists, although he slumbered
in his mud hut on the Rio Grande at
the time, the battle ragged furiously
most of the day.
Cannon exchanged shots, shrapnel
were exploded among the men Of the
contending armies and hand grenades
and rude, homemade dynamite bombs
were thrown with deadly effect. Some
times the fighting was close, some
times at long range, but always hot
and furious. Every inch of ground
was contested from behind thick adobe
walls, beneath the shelter of irriga-
ton bitches or in the trenches thrown
up for military necessity.
The dead and wounded fell thick
in the streets, where they lay in the
sun and suffered from want Of water,
food and medical attention. The day
was hot for a May day and this added
to the discomfort. During the after
noon conflagration added to the hor-
rors of war when insurrecto bombs
set fire to several of the principal
buildings of the town, including the
pOstoffice.
The battle started without the sane
ton of the insurrecto chief, but he
gave his sanction overnight for the
general attack and daylight broke
with the entire Madero command, eX-
cept $50 camp guards, left behind with
Madero, inside or surrounding Juarez.
His men were fighting all day with
out food, many of them were dying
in the hot sun of the streets OF
Juarez, crawling as best they could for
protection from the bullets and the
heat, but Madero took his sleep at
night and his afternoon siesta.
After the first fire broke out in the
postofIice several fires followed dur
ing the afternoon, and it is now re-
ported that the Mexican Central round
house the federal military barracks
and several stores adjoining the post
office have been consumed by flames.
Reinforcements have arrived and
the fresh men took the places Of many
of the tired rebels in the trenches,
while some of those who had been
fighting for two days and a night re-
tired out of range of the guns of the
enemy for a sleep in preparation for
a renewed assault on the city again
this morning.
Giuseppe Garibaldi, soldier of for
tune, grandson Of Italy's great Carl
baldi commanded the insurrectos in
their fighting General r. ]. Viljoen,
late of the Boer army, remained with
Madero and sent advice to the front
during the day Pancha Villa and
Pascual Orozco led attacking forces
into the city and Jose De La Luz Blan-
co and his command remained in camp
as a body guard for Madero.
Firing heard east of Juarez is looked
upon as mysterious. A command of
insurrectos arrived in Juarez from
Ojinaga to relieve some of the men in
the trenches, and the firing about ten
miles from the town leads to the be-
lief that the federals, who are said to
have abandoned Ojinaga after defeat
ms; the rebels. have followed the in
surrectos.