Arizona republican., 1911-04-09

Meyicali. April S-General Stanley
 Williams marched forth his little com
 pany and gave battle to Col Mi
 guel Mayots five hundred Mexican
 regulars on the mesa five miles south
 today Twenty survivors struggled
 back to tell the tale of Williams de-
 feat and rout Fatally wounded, he
 is now in the customs house with a
 bullet in his head and torn by the
 fragment of a shell that lit in the
 midst of a party of fugitives with
 him and sent up a geyser of flame,
 smoke and fragments of human bod
 ies. His wagon train was captured
 with nearly all the stores and stock captured in d raid yesterday upon the American rancherS.
 It is asserted by the survivors that no prisoners were taken Those not killed by the rifles. and machine guns of the artillery were slaughtered with bayonets by the nerciless fed eral soldiers. Dr. W. E. Larkins says the hospital tent and ambU- lance were fired upon and that he and assistants were forced to flee l-tll hlllS lblllAllL Stll dAbDtdlS Ab Allt American side for the authorities to send Red Cross aid to the battle field to stop the slaughter of the wounded and save whom they could of the victims.
 Williams marched out with his handful of men to make a daring assault upon an overwhelming foTce He was fully confident of beating the federals and intended to march direct upon Ensenada. In militarv formation, a column of two. the force moved directly south after crossing the SiXty-fOOt wash of New river, which surrounds the town on three sides and constitutes its most for midable defense. His cavalry. num- bering twenty seven. were the ad- vance guard. the infantry in the cen ter. and the wagon train and ambu lance in the rear.
 Tn short dashes the cavalry ad- vanced. reconnOitering while the in fantry waited behind until it was safe to advance. At II o'clock four miles south of MeXicali the first fed erals were encountered. Williams promptly deployed his men in fan like formation and open order so as to render the artillery machine guns less destructive The ambulance was posted in a clump of trees on a lit ! tie ranch. The insurgent battle line | plunged into a field of barley. and ! under the cover Of the growing grain. | the rebels advanced steadily.
 Engrossed apparently by prepara- | tions for battle on Sunday, Mayot ! was surprised by the attack and for | a time it seemed as if Williams | idea of doing the unexpected and | taking the fight to the foe would | bring him success. But in a few | minutes the barRy %as trampled | flat. and exposed the insurgents who | were then subjected to their first ex- perienCe with machine gun fire. The | automatics spat viciously from the federal main position on the south | bank of the Encina canal. The reb- els sought cover in the gullies and ! washes left by the floods sent over in the valley by the Colorado river three years ago. Here they fought until about g o'clock. holding their own amid the rattle of musketry that could be heard many miles away.
 For some reason, the federals did ioN bl Aib up liltli Altih HA'N's tiihA4 that hour. A reconnoitering force of nearly a hundred federals had made their way to the border east of Calexico and there learning of Williams daring move, sped south ward. This force struck Williams flank almost at the same moment that the first federal shell shrieked over the rebel position and kicked up a cloud of dust near the hospital wagons.
 The insurgents scattered, and the hospital wagon surmounted by a Red Cross flag disappeared in the thick mesquite one after another. the federals sent shells in the direction of the rebels. while the rattle of musketry was redoubled. At 4:45 o'clock Mayot again turned the flank of the rebels forcing them to aban- don their position. Fleeing insur gents could be seen going eastward back across barley fields.
 Then came the shell that it Is be lieved will put an end to the life and military career of the army deserter who has twice nearly disrupted the insurrecto forces by his ambition to be commander-in-c chief. A party of horsemen were seen speeding across the field As they reached the cen ter a shell struck the ground and exploded. There was a flash of flame like lightning. cloud of n