The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-11
Aqua PRIETA FALLS.
FederaIs Decamp After Destroying Sup
piles Of All Kinds,


DOUGLAS, Ariz. May lO.-Rchel com
manders In the Sonora campaign took
charge of Aqua Preta tonight and set
W temporary state government in the
Mexican frontier port, which was aban-
doned by Us federal garrison early to-
day, This government will be perfected
| tomorrow. General Jose Perfecto Lone
lin commander of the rebel forces in
Aqua Prieta, Police were posted to pa
troll the streets, and before morning
Anacleto Giron and 700 insurgents are
expected to arrive TO reGarrlson the
town.
The federals decamped bag and bag
gage. Yesterday they devoted to building
them. The town is absolutely deserted,
Everything edible was carried away by
the ffederals and everything useful which
could not he taken was destroyed.
Refugees arriving from the south to-
day declared that the entire country
| through which they passed was over
run with rebels Two thousand insur-
| rectos, they reported. were at Campas.
Naco Falls Into Rebel Hands.
The town of Naco also fell into rebel
hands today it's federal garrison with
drawing. Naco was not fortified.
| visions and other supplies for Cananea
and intervening points on the Naco rail-
road route must pass by rounda bout
way through Nogalcs.
Americans are much confused by the
! situation and wondering how business
! is TO he carried on with Juarez. Aqua
Preta and Naco are left without customs
service,
| Because of It's evacuation OF Aqua
| Prieta by federal troops. II is believed
| that the Moctezuma Copper company and
| the great Pilares mine and concentrator
at Nacozari, will have to suspend oper-
| ations, as there is now no port for eX
| port Shipments averaging 400 cars OF
| concentrates
heretofore 10 the smelter at Douglas
All other mines in central Sonora are
| likewise affected, including the Mime
apolis Copper company OF Minneapolis
| the Transyaal Copper company OF Gin
cinnati, the Monte Cristo OF Duluth the
Antigua and Temblor of New York, La
CiSpas OF the Swiss -Pedrizinni company
and hundred others
Cananea Threatened.
II is declared at the rebel iunta here
| that The federal force has done exactly
| what the Irsurrecto chiefs were employ
| ing strategy 10 accomplish. Plans for an
attack on Aqua Prieta had been changed
| 10 include an attack upon Cananea. the
! rebels giving as their reason their fear
! OF heavy mining In Aqua Priets and in
| the open country before the trenches to
the south and southwest.
Every rebel force has crossed over the
Nacozari valley from the east to the
west and yesterday they were concen-
tratinE in the hope that the federal
| march TO the relief OF Cananea. Accord
| ing TO a rebel informant the plan was to
| draw Colonel Dsz into the mountain pass
between Cananea and Aqua Prieta and
| there engage him with the overwhelming
advantage on their side
Awaiting the federals in the pass about
| thirteen miles west OF Aqua Prieta are
| the commands OF Juan Antonio Garcia
Juan Cabral, Frank Laneston and a few
scattering bands Numbering. in all not
less than 1900 men. The federal force
which left Cananea with 100 men and ra-
| captured Aqua Prieta several weeks ago
| has been depleted by battle losses and
dssertions until it numbers less than
500 men with three machine guns.
| 1t is the belief here that the Mexican
government. hard pressed at many points,
| is making q last effort TO concentrate its
dWndI,ag f1rees Tor ,o stand at 1T, Hsrmo- 9
| ward 10 protect Mexico City Itself From
all Indications the entire state of Sonora
will soon be in the hands of the reb-
| els.
Went Through Pass Safely
| The federal army OF 500 under Colonel
Dlaz passed through the Cananes pass
attacked by the rebels The Associated
Press correspondent followed Diazs
forces to the pass In an automobile. a
telephone message. from Naco at p. m.
stated that the federal army had not ap-
peared In that vicinity.
Cananea is reported over private
| telephone line to be still quiet which in
dcates that the combined rebel forces
| have not appeared In the Sonora river
valley. but are waiting In the foothills
| to attack the federal army marching
| west
Americans who reached here from
! southern Sonora today reported rebel
against Hermosillo. the capital OF that
| state. Arrivals from Poza, a station on
the Southern Pacific railroad, said that
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