Smyrna times., 1911-02-08
REBELS FIGHT
LOYAL TROOPS
HurI Infantry Train From Track
and Battle Follows.
THEY WILL STORM JAUREz
Border City Is Nearly Deserted and
PatroIIed by Federal Soldiers-Aii
Relief Cut Off.

The battle of Bauche, the first fight
attending the assault on Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico, is now being fought.
Since Saturday night there has been
fighting in progress, but none of 1t
has been bloody or spirited.
The federals, under command of
Colonel Robago, are trapped at the
base of a series of small hills twelve
miles from Juarez, surrounded by in
surrectos, and only by a miracle can
they escape.
The rebels had only lost two killed
and three wounded in the all day
fight. The federal loss was not known,
bu tas the federal soldiers had the
shelter of their train their loss is not
believed to be heavy.
Another report says the federal
forces escaped and are now fleeing
In the direction of Juarez, with Orozco
and his men close behind them.
Messengers Immediately left for Ell
Paso and do not know the extent of
the losses on either side, but believe
they were heavy.
ISpOllo WOAO bAclI ShO liam
was able to move south, but Colonel
Manuel Chico, of the insurrecto force,
says the engine was wrecked so that
1t could not get back and al of Ro-
bagos command are prisoners.
Chico came to FL Paso with mes
sages for Abram Gonzales, provisional
governor of Chihuahua, under insur-
recto regime.
Pascual Orozco's command of boot
ed and spurred insurrectos slept calm
ly through the night ten miles from
town and were fresh for the fray.
Orozco had declared positively that
he would attack not later than Sun
day, but first he would give his tired
men rest and sleep and prepare them
for the supreme test.
All night the tired, drowsy senti.
nels walked the narrow streets or
paced the adobe roofs of the ancient
church of Guadalupe, the low, fiat
municipal building or the grotesque
little postoffice structure that half g
century ago housed Benito Juarel
when he was rallying his men for the
h6uI dSdluoI udAlIlll1dn ILLS VOL
same town, which Orozco hopes tt
make the capital of insurrectionar.
Mexico in 1911.
Americans and foreigners were KEEP
off the streets during the night, ant
the little city of 10000 souls in norma
times, now a town of scarcely 900
because the population has fed to E
LOFT
at night than it had been during tn
day after the American consul ha
warned the foreigners to leave an
the mayor had ordered all places Q
business closed and even the native
of the streets.
Soldiers marched from corner I
corner and secuted or galloped fror
the night.
Every man sat with his rifle on hi
lap or near at hand. Some peere
from the tallest buildings at the flicl
ering camp fires across the broa
mesa, the same sight they had wi
messed for three nights, with the san
dread of the daylight palpitating the
hearts.
Late in the evening Pascual Orozc
the rebel commander, had complete
the work of isolating Juarez from IL
rest of the world by tearing up Il
tracks of the Mexican Northwestel
railroad, over which the beleaguer,
city had hoped to get relief from Il
south.
The rebel leaders then put a tel
graph operator somewhere down Il
line, who replied to all desperate ca
from Juarez with the patriotic "Vi
Madero."
With the bridges burned on t
Mexican Central and the tracks to
up for forty miles south, all hope
relief from that source is cut off,