Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-09
American Leader of Rebels Takes His Little Band and Goes to Battle 500
 Regulars
IS SHOT TO PIECES;
 WOUNDED BAY0NETED
Regulars Take No Prisoners But Run the Cold Steel Trough Helpless Men
 on Ground

AEAlCALI, April S.-Gen sts,,o, williams marched forth witb his iiule company and gave battle in Noi. Miguel Mayot's 500 Mexican regulars on the Mesa fire rnilea south today, and twenty survivors struggled back to tell the tala of Williams defeat and rout and fatal wound. He is now in the custom house with a bullet in his head 6y fragment of shell, a sheg ,bYt ii' In the midst of a party of fugi. t'Ves with him and send I'm . seyssr of flames and smoka ana fragments of human bodies. His wagon trains were captured with nearly ali the stores and stocks captured in the raid yesterdav mo, American ranches.
 Wounded Bayoneted.
 IL IS asserted by the survivors that no prisoners were taken, those not killed by rifles. machine guns and artillery being slaughtered by oayonets of the merciless federal soiolers- Dr. W. B. Larkins says the hospital tent and ambulance V6.e med upon sad he and assist. ants forced to flee. Larkins to, night sent appeals to the American side for the authorities to send the ked Cross to aid in the battle field and. gtor slaughter of wounded and save whom they could of the vic. tins.
 Williams marched out with ! handful of mer to make a daring assault upon an overwhelming force as if he was confident of beating , the federals and intended to march direct upon Ensenada. In military formation the colunn of two moved directly south after. crossing a six, ty-foot wash of New river. which su: rounds the town on three sides and constitutes it's most formida ble defense. His cavalry numbering t'renty-seyen were the advance guard, the infantry the center. the wagon train and ambulance the rear
 In short dashes the cavalry ad vanced reconnoitering while the in fantry waited behind until it was safe to advance At II o'clock, fouI miles south of Mexicali the frs federals were encountered.
 Williams promptly deployed hi men in fan-like formation in opeI order. so as to render the artiller, and machine guns least destructive The ambulance was posted in l; clump of trees on a little ranch and the iEsurgent battle line plung ed into a field of barley. Undei
 cover of the growing grain tn rebels advanced steadily. Engrosset apparently by the deliberate prepara
 tions for battle Sunday. Mayot wa
 surprise hy the attack, and for 1; ? time it seemed as if Williams ide;
 of doing the unexpected and takini : the fight to the foe would brinl hin success. But in a few minute ! the barley was trampled flat, an the exposed insurgents were the } subjected to their first experienc with machine gun fire.
 ? Automatics spat viciously frol the federal main position on tn south bank of Encina canal. an the rebels sought the cover ( 9 guIley washes left by floods sen } over the valley by the Colorad r river three years ago. Hero the r fought until about o'clock holdin
 their own amid a rattle of musketr to be heard many miles away Fo some reason the federals did nc - bring up the field pieces until ths d hour. A reconnoitering force S nearly a hundred federals had mad r way to the border east of Calexic 2 and there. learning of William ]. daring move, sped southward. Tn $ force struck Williams flank. ar n almost at the same moment the fir q federal shell shrieked over the reb