Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-04


 arrow and looked the warrior as much as rortirio Diaz ever did. He plead ed with Chiapa for the lives of his two sons, asking nothing for himself It was a noble effort, but it fell on deaf ears.
 Shoot Sons First.
 The two sons were stood up be- tween two lanterns and shot one by one, before the father, and then his turn came Chiapa gave the com man to shoot when each shot was fired and they laid in a heap until the next day. when they were thrown into a four-foot hole and barely coy- cred with earth.
 Chiaps Defiant.
 "As defiant as Tamborrell, the cocky little colonel under Gen. Juan Ma yarro, commander at the battle Of Jua-ez. ChiaSa chirpod with grim humor, I did not kill Talamantes and his sons: my soldiers did it un- ter ruy orders Not the national air of Mexlco shou1i accompany sucn a brave assertion. but the hoarse croahng of witches"
 Dr. Wright arrived in the city yes terday from Los Angeles and is stay ing in the city a few days before re- turning to the Sahauripa district. He has seen as much of the Mexican revolution perhaps as any other non cOmbatant. He has been the butt Of much good-natured raiuery here at at Los Angeles as the result of the aSr fled Sahauripa to keep from hurting the feeling of the rebels by refusing the post of surgeon general of the rebel army of Sonora, which was offer ed him. He did not accept the title nor the remuneration. but did heroic service at Sahauripa to rebel and federal alike
 Hard Fought Battle
 T was in Sahuaripa in January during the three days fight" said Dr. Wright, when the federals re- captured the town. Little was pub lished in the papers regarding thls battle because of the fact of its being so far in the interior and telegraphic and mall facilities hav- Ing been interrupted to that part Cf the country since that time. but as a matter of fact it was one of the hardest fought battles of the war. When the fighting was over they picked up on the fourth day over l60 dead, about One1hird of this number being federals and two thirds rebels or insurrectos. The latter fought like tigers to hold the town, but they were handicapped by lack of ammunition, and then there were only about 200 rebels as against 450 of the government forces. The former were under the leadership of Don Sevariano Tala- nantes and his two sons. The fed erals were under Colonel Ojeda and Francisco Chiapa. who was then the prefect of McctcZuma district.
 Dump the Dead
 The first thing the federals did after taking the town was to get rid of the dead. This they did in short order by dumping over sev- enty of them into three abandoned wells near the edge of the town. md the balance were buried in shal- | low holes dug in the sand of the | Sahuaripa river bottom.
 'Of course these will be distrib- 1ted along down the river after the first hard summer rain.
 Besides the dead there were over 100 wounded. To these pr. Wendlandt of Sahusrina and myself gave our services, but think of 459 federals going on a conquest of his kind without a surgeonl We ! made a hospital out of the school house and did our operating on the teachers tables. There were no cots or beds so we had to put the wounded on the dirt floor.
 The Mexican soldier does not have even a blanket, but the poor neople of the town supplied them with bedding as best they could, as they did with food, for the Mexican army makes DO provision for the sick or wounded.
 T had asked Colonel Ojeda and Chiapa what We should do about .aklng care of the wounded. 'Quien sabe.' they bOth replied | They then explained to me that he government had no fund from which they could draw in emergen- cies of this kind. But then, after all, many of the most desperately . wounded got well. After my expe- -ience in Sahuaripa I do not won fer that there were stories Of how. ! II other places, the federal officers had the wounded put out of the way by the bayonet route.
 Diaz Rule a Farce
 T have a great resrect for the ,ause for which the liberals have fought" said the doctor. sWar is nell. as one of our great generals 4aid, but I do not think it is any more so than tke life 75 per cent )f the Mexican people have been lying during the % years of the Oiaz regime. Mexico. as a renuh- ic. has been a farce, as every Amer can that has lived in that country knows. It has been nothing but sraft, from the president down. No