Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-05-12
AMERICANS SLAIN
IN JUAREz FIGHT
American Captain and Twenty
Nine Others Die.
FIVE KILLED IN Ell PASO
Three Hundred insurgents in Streets
Of the Attacked Town and Expect
to Capture it-GeneraI Navar-
70 Refuses to Surrender.

El Paso, Textile general attack
on Juarez by the insurgents was re-
sumed. Thirty persons have been
killed and 80 wounded in the battle
which began Monday Captain Lin
derfelt, the American who COM
manded the men who first at
tackled, has been killed, together with
five others of his command. Captain
Sachino Of the federal forces is re-
ported to be seriously wounded. The
main street Of Juarez up to the Gus
tom house is in the hands of 300 in
5urrectOs. The rebels have captured
one Of the federal cannon and consid-
cradle ammunition
The decision to attack was made
after the ENJOYS sent shortly after
midnight to General Navarro returned
saying that he refused to surrender.
For an armistice arrangement he re-
ferred them to Judge Carbajal, the
federal peace envoy, but he, too, re-
fused to enter into an agreement with
part of the rebels already in Juarez.
Firing by the insurrectos was be-
gun by small detachment of men
sta ned in an adobe house near the
StGA ton street bridge. With their ma
chine gun leveled to sweep the streets
of Jdarez, they waited patiently for
the first break of dawn and opened
fire. A United States soldier off duty
swan across the Rio Grande only an
hour before the attack began and
brought back with him two of the
wounded insurrectos Orders had been
given not to allow the wounded to
take refuge in Ell Paso, but under COW
er Of darkness the soldiers towed the
two wounded men to shore and took
them to hospital. One Of the insur-
rectos had bullet wound in his neck
and the other bullet hole in his leg.
The soldier declared that the de-
tachment OF men with the machine
gun near the Stanton street bridge
was ready to keep up a continuous
fire all day, as they had plenty of am
munition. General Navarro is conf
dent of holding Juarez and military
experts in town think he can do it,
He has two field pieces and cannon
in an advantageous position in the
town.
The range of the federal artillery is
remarkably accurate, their shells land
ing close to the oncoming insurrectos
and forcing them to scatter in their
advance. 1t is obvious that the heavy
artillery of the federals has given
them & tremendous advantage
Colonel VilIareal, the insurrecto
chief, is advancing on Juarez this
morning from the east with 600 men
fresh from the siege Of Ojinaga, while
General Rabago is advancing to Juarez
with 1000 federals, but a strong COM
;nand has been assigned to oppose
him.
All the fighting has been done con-
trary to the orders Of General Fran
cisco l. Madero and in the face of his
feryent protests Rogue Gonzales
Garcia and Alberto Fuentes and other
insurrecto leaders, accompanied by
newspaper men, crossed into Juarez
early this morning to discuss a termi-
nation Of hostilities with General Ma
VAL ~. 1AS lSpOI IdlC yesterday IndC
q new armistice has been arranged
was Incorrect
Thousands Of residents of Ell Paso
are watching the battle from roof tops
and points Of vantage. The United
States troops have ordered everybody
on the American side of the line to
stay three blocks away from the river
front. Mrs. Josefa Garcia and her
young son were shot early today, the
former receiving wound in her neck