The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-13
Numerous Towns Arc Under
Siege by the Illsur-
rcCtoS.
FOOD SUPPLIES CUT OFF
Government Decides to Wage
Decisive War Of ENter-
mination.

Ell Paso, Tex. March 12.-Condtions
bordering on panic reign almost
throughout Northern Mexico Tonight
Stirred by the belief that tho rcvo-
iutionary movement has reached a
critical stage the insurrcctoS In the
States Of Chihuahua. and SoEbra arc re-
ported to have renewed activity in
tearing UP railroads and z telegraph
wires. Numerous towns, according to
reports are under siege by the insur
rectos. and thousands OF women and
children. cut off from food supplies
arc helpless.
Following the receipt of corrected
details concerning the battle at Casas
Grandes town of about 500
Inhabitants, about $50 miles southwest
Of FL Paso, where eighty men were
killed last Monday, news reached here
Of a fight at noon to-day at Aguapri eta,
on the border across the river from
Douglas, Ari2. Five hundred inSur-
rectos attacked 800 Federal troops,
but were repulscd with a loss OF thirty
five dead. and wounded on both sides.
The fighting was short, and the in.
surrectos. armed only with rifles, soon
scattered under the fire Of a machine
gun.
What Is believed to be a reliable
report Of the casualties at Casas
Grandes, says that nftcen Americans
were killed. and seventeen Americans
were taken prisoners.
Oflcers Who Escaped.
The following, at first reported to
have been killed. are known TO have
escaped.
Lieutcnant-Colonel Guiseppi Carl
baldi. Raoul Madero, brother of Fran
cisco l. Madero. so-called provisional
president Of the insurrectos; Captain
Gutierrez De Lara and Lieutenant r.
Valencia, OF Ell Paso
Captain Eduardo Hay, n Mexican OF
Madero's personal STAFF, was not killed,
but was taken prisoner. Raoul Madcro
was wounded.
X #. harrington, former sergeant
IN the United States army, who lived at
III Paso; Robert H. Lee and Robert
Evans. of San Francisco. and Roy
Glenn, ii boy Of, Mineral Springs, Texas.
were killed
| The names OF the Americans killed
or taken prisoners are not known a
letter written by Madcro was received
here to-day, in which he denied he made
another attack On the town after lie
was driven away. lie asserts. however,
that he has gathered q force OF 900
men. and is now within n few miles OF
Tue town. Ills explanation of the de-
| feat is that several scouts sent to re-
connoitrc before the attack failed to
report the coming OF Colonel Cuellar
with Il Federal force. The unexpected
arrivals Of the Ecdcrals resulted in q
hahic among tile insurrcctos. The
scouts. he said. had been shot
| The rews from Mexico CITY that
PRESIDENT Diaz has decided to take adj
| vantage of provisions OF tho C,onstftu
tion. so that summary death NAV be
| IMPOSED by tho military authorities for
| any acts OF violence. aud that the Mex
| ican government has decided to wage a
sharp ana decisive war Of determination
! speedily to end hostilities. has snread
throughout the insurgcnt ranks. Tie
reply, through irSurrccto sympaihizer,;
nero, is that In retaliation the royo
ihtionary forces hereafter VIII EXPECT
and give mo quarter
Intcnsifics Sftuntion
IN orlnation from insurrecto sources
> 'hat me attitude Of the Mexican
government will intensive !, situation
already tense. and i, necessa,.ilv will
impose further hardships on non-com-
%, pa.ants. including women and children.
| 'lVne In the small towns scattered
throughout The war zone
no word has come from the CITY Of
lhi hl'n for seven days. Tho lac,
report was that the food onestior ~
ready had become critical. ,Thn 49, q.
ence In the city OF 1000 Federal ,rno,,s
urder General Juan lIerndancz. while
iooked upon as sufficient protection
ntainst an attack. IS though, TO nave
more Than ordinarily depleted atoms,
LiKo conditions prevail In many
smaller towns ''''''
the arrival OF United states troops
| here to-day accustomed much Interest,"
Ihel arrivals were tTO troops OF tho
| "onrth Cavalry from Fort Mead s. ID.
with four more troops due To morrow.
from Fort Smelling. MINI. and with
the troops already here they viii ron, :
nose a force OF 800 men. under Colonel
| b. z. Stecver. mi