Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-05-16
5 AMERICANS SLAIN
CITIZENS OF Ell PASO KILLED
IN BATTLE BETWEEN REB-
ELS AND FEDERALS.
TOWN OF JUAREz sToRMED
Gen. Madero Unable TO ccntrol His
Men-They Make Attack on Diaz
outposts-1.ooo U. S. Troops Guard
Border.

FL Paso, Tex.-One hundred and IF
ty rebels made a daylight attack on
Juarez and the fighting between the
federals and insurgents lasted
throughout the day. General Madero
declares the assault was "unauthor-
lied"
The rebels not only succeeded in
capturing some of the important fed
eral outposts, but carried the fighting
into the town. The casualties of the
insurrectos and federals are not
known, but FIVE people on the Ameri-
can eide of the line were killed and at
least twelve wounded.
When the bullets began to fall like
hail in the streets of Ell Paso Col
Steever, in command of the Fourth
United States cavalry, sent couriers to
Generals Madero and Navarro bearing
this message:
In the name of the president of the
United States hereby protest against
men under your command handling
fall into United States territory, as is
happening"
But the bullets continued to fall,
and Colonel Steever later wired to
Washington for instructions.
Before Withdrawing, the insurrectos
had captured all the customs houses,
the two bridges joining Juarez and FL
Paso and the bull ring.
1t is believed by many that Juarez
would have been taken had it not been
for conflicting orders from Madero.
Early in the day Madero undertook to
open negotiations with the federals
for an armistice. The negotiations
failed and Madero gave notice that he
purposed making a general attack.
Shortly afterwards he countermanded
this order and said there would be
no attack
Generals Pasqual Orozco and Pan
cho Villa, a reformed bandit, com
manding a section of Madero's army,
disregarded Madero and made the at
tack. Madero issued statement de-
claring that he had not been obeyed
and was not responsible.
In the fighting it is said that Gen.
eral Navarro was wounded. 1t is not
known whether or not the wound is
serious.
The fighting started when about a
dozen insurrectos emerged from the
barren hills around Juarez and, skulk-
ing along through the shrubbery to-
ward the federal outposts, fred re-
peatedly at a squad of federals cooped
up in an adobe house The federals
soon left the house and fed, pursued
by the insurrectos, who were headed
By a Canadian named w n McKen-
zie. At the first few shots two fed
erals toppIed over. Soon the federals
abandoned the trenches and the in.
surgents fired intermittingly for few
hours without advancing. At last the
federals brought their artillery into
action and heavy cannonading began.
They gagged their fire well and not
only shot shrapnel into the insurrecto
advance, but far into the outlying
forces of the rebel camp near Peace
Grove" where the commissioners
were to have met.
The insurrectos, however, took ad-
vantage of the river bank and used it
for protection, as the federals had
been ordered not to shoot into Ell
Paso. They came as far as the Santa
Fe bridge, which joins JuareZ and Ell
Paso, driving the federals back into
town and taking possession of the Gus
toms houses Carving the fight into
Juarez, the rebels entered the town,
and for four hours kept up a continu-
Gus fire. Insurrecto achievements
reached the bridge, but did not fire,
and withdrew at dark under orders
OF their chiefs.