The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1911-04-14
AUGA pRiETA, OVER THE RIVER
FROM DOUGLAS, ARIz, CAP
TuRED AFTER FIGHT.
AMERICANS ARE KILLED
lnsurrecto Band, Under RED" Lopez,
After Several Hours Of Fierce
Shooting, compeIs Surrender Of
City-Builets Spattcr vciously
Among Sightseers Along Line.

Auga Pricta, Mexico. via Douglas.
Ariz. April la.-Anga Prieta SUR
rendered TO the rebels tonight after
one Of the most spectacular battles Of
the Mexican insurrection. There are
many dead and wounded, including one
American dead. II. w. Grow. who was
struck by stray bullet In Douglas.
Others In Douglas were wounded.
This Is the first time during the in
surrcctlon that any person has been
killed on the American side as the
result of border fighting.
The dead and wounded Of both the
rebels and federals are being taken to
Douglas.
Federal soldiers to the number Of
80 fled to the American side an hour
before the trouble ended and We're dis
armed by the American troops. The
rebels shot down many federals as
they ran.
FEDERAL prisoners wounded were
escorted from Auga Prieta to the
border, where they were released as
fugiilses on American soil.
than $50. while the federal defenders
numbered IS.
Rebels Want Recognition.
II was stated tonight that the rebels
will try to hold Auga Prieta in the
hope of winning recognition as bel
ligerents by the United States.
Auga Prieta is the terminal of the
Nacozari railroad into Sonora and In
the most important point on the bor-
der between El Paso and the Pacific
ocean.
Following are The American dead
and injured:
Dead:
ROBERT HARRINGTON
j. G, EDWARDS.
Injured: -- Diko. Il. T.. Grow.
probably will die; A. X. Dickson, shot
through thigh. condition serious. For
est Rutherford. shot in foot: Carlos
Lennon. shot In leg: Genevieye Cole,
shot through the arm; w. Singleton,
flesh wound IN arm.
Switchmen Shot.
Robert Harrington was n switch
man employed In the yards of the
Douglas railroad and was on his
train at Fourth street A bullet
struck him In the head and he tumbled
from the car. He was picked up and
taken In wagon to the Copper Queen
hospital, where he died within an
hour.
II. II. Grow, another switchman, was
on the same train and the same vol
ley that killed Harrington, swept him
from the car also. lie was shot
and probably will die. Crows family
resides in Colorado.
A. r. Dickson, half owner of the
Washington mine In the Arizpe dis
trlct. was shot through the thigh. The
bone is broken and the wound may
prove fatal.
Forest Rutherford. assistant super
intendent Of the Copper Queen smell
ter, when the battle opened went tc
| his home which Is locat d near the
| smelter. A bullet among many which
entered his home struck him In the
foot. The injury is slight.
Carlos Lennon, a baker from Bis
| bee, was among the sightseers when
/ IL
| In the leg. He turned and started to-
ward Douglas, when another strucl
him in the back.
| j. e. Edwards, young man of 2,
years, was fighting with the insnr
rectos and was killed. His home was
In Virginia.
Geneeve Cole. 16 years old, daugh'
| ter of A. w. Cole, formerly alderman
In the Douglas city council and prom
inent as clerk OF the Arizona consti
tutlonal convention, was sitting In hel
1 home when Il federal bullet passet
| through her arm.
1 Lopez Captures Train.
Lopez captured tho Nacozari trail
on its southbound trip yesterday ant
held 1t near Fronteras until toda.
when, with his troops aboard, mum
bering $50. 1t steamed hack to Aug
Prieta Scarcely had the rebels de
trained when the firing began.
The rebels deployed their firing lin
up and down the Nacozari railroa
tracks from the Auga Prieta static
to the American customs house. Wit
the opening of the battle, began ma
rush of Americans from Douglas to
ward the international line, the great
cr number massing at the custom
house. The rebels with little rushf
kept moving northward toward tn
customs house till they were With
its shadows The customs house
surrounded Oh tsree sides, facin
! Auga Prieta. with a veranda whic
! was crowded with Americans an
Mexicans from Douglas.
One rebel attempted to break frol
, the embankment to gain an adol