El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-06
OROzCO LETS FEDERALS GET INTO
JUAREz AFTER He HAS THEM TRAPPED
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! them to bring the train back toward
Juarez until they ran into the place
where the rail had been removed aud
were wrecked.
Capt. Casavantes told us that Orozco
was already moving toward Juarez, to
attack at daybreak Sunday morning, as
he had declared on Saturday he would
do, when the headlight came into view
from the south and the march was de-
layed- This, then, is what saved Juarez
on Sunday.
Insurrectos Protected.
The insurrectos were well screened
behind low hills, and the federals could
only fire at them when they crawled
up to look over the top. There IS
small growth of brush upon the tops OF
these hills and the rebels had good
positions in which to hide especially
as they use Smokeless powder. The
federals were unprotected except ror
the train and the earthWOrks and the
latter did but little good, inasmucn rs
the rebels were above them and could
see into the trenches and almost all
are good shots.
The rebels are armed with all man.
ner of guns, but the majority carry
Mauser rifles and very many of them
carry bayonets and wear Mexican fed
eral army cartridge belts, showing that
they are either deserters from the fed
erals or that they have captured these
things from federal soldiers. Several
men proudly exhibited their rifles
and bayonets to US while on the firing
line yesterday afternoon and boosted
that they had been taken from dead
federal soldiers. Several of the insur-
rectos were introduced as men who
had escaped from the federal army,
and they laughed and crawled up the
hill rather gleefully to take a snot at
their former companions in arms down
in the valley.
The Method of Fighting.
The rebels only kept up a scattering
fire during the day and they fought
from various places at various times.
Their line extended from the Mexico
North Western track, west for a mile
or more facing south. the men and
their horses being protected from the
federals in a valley on the north
Quarrel side of the succession Of hills
from the top of which they fired at
the federals. First a bunch of men
from the 40 or so men on the extreme
left wing of the rebel army would
crawl up the side of the hill into the
brush and fire down upon the federals.
They would soon draw fire from the
men in the train below. and when the
bullets began to patter thick ABOUT
them or occasionally fall back among
their waiting comrades horses and
American visitors, they would slip of
into the arroyo with the others and
band at some other point down the line
would follow the same tactics. This
kept the federa1s firing in various d.
rections but unually at scarcely any
target, for it must have been with
greatest difficulty that a rebel could be
seen in the scraggy brush on top of the
hills.
American visitors to the camp were
less experienced and less careful, how
ever, and many stood upright. They
quickly brought rifle fire from the
federals and probably afforded better
targets for the Robago command dur
ing the day than the insurrectos
drought that time.
Several hundred Americans mingled
with the insurrectos during Sunday and
there was a steady stream of autos and
motorcycles and buggfes to and from
the camp. Auto men on the public stand
got SIS for each round trip.
Americans in Danger.
Tt was miraculous that none of the |
Americans were wounded. There were |
probably hundred men in the camp |
Of the federals on the firing line when |
Mr.. Stevens and I reached the place |
and bullets frequently fell about us. /
more attention to them than if they |
were not falling, but the Americans
we're not quite so accustomed to the |
thing and many unceremoniously broke |
off conversations with their insurrecto |
hosts to seek better cover. Among some |
of the more venturesome spirits who |
risked being punctured with federal |
bullets to get pictures and a good look |
at the federals was r. H. Rdnehart, DR.. |
J. H Paget, Tom Powers, Chas. F. |
Hunt, D. Storms, ]. Porter Bender, H. |
A. Scott, J. S. P. Garfield, Richard |
(''Madero'') Evans, J. n. Hawkins, Vim |
cent Andreas, Fred Heritt and num- |
Der of others. These were at the bat |
tlefield when Mr.. Stevens and I were |
there Many others came and went at |
different times during the day.
The InSUrrectOs.
The men of the insurrecto army did |
not appear to be of low type. as !
they have often been pictured They |
appeared to be mostly working men, |
but not of the type usually seen in the |
city. They seemed rather to be men of |
the farmer and stock raising type, !
none of them highly educated or Of a |
very high order of intelligence but
most assuredly more than comparing |