The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-13
Fifteen Americans Report ed Killed in Battle of
 Casas Grandes
THOUSANDS CUT OFF
 FROM FOOD SUPPLY
Insurgents Grow Desperate and De- clare They Will Give No
 Quarter As Retalia-
 ton on Diaz

Fl Paso. Tex, March 12.-Conditions
 bordering on panic reign almost
 tbrourhout northern Mexico tonight.
 Stirred by the belief that the revo-
 1utionary movement has reached crie-
 ical stage the insurrectos In the sta'es
 of Chin uahua and Sonora are reported
 to have renewed activity in tearing up
 railroads and telegraph wires. Numer-
 ous towns, according to reports are
 under siege by the insurrectos ana
 thousands of women and children cut
 off from food supplies are rendered helpless.
 Following the receipt of corrected details concerning the battle or Casa Crandes a town of perhaps 5OO peo-
 ple about 150 miles southwest or Ei Paso. where 80 men were killed last night. news reached here of a hght a' roon today at Agua Prieta, on the por der across the river from Dougias, Ariz. Five hundred insurrectos attacked 300 federal troops but were repuisea with a total of 30 dead ana "ouhueu on both sides. |, The fighting was short and the in- surrectos, armed only with rifles soon scattered under the fire of machine
 gun. ts
 American Casualties What is believed to be q reliable re- port of the casualties at Casas Grandes says that 15 Americans were kilieo anu IT Americans were taken prisoners. The following at first reported to have been killed are known to have escaped:
 Lieut.. Col. Guiseppi Garibaldi, Raoul Madero brother of Francisco l. Ma : dero, so-called provisional president Of the insurrectos Capt. Gutierrez de Lara and Lieut.. l. Valencia of El Paso. Capt Eduardo Mayo, Mexican of Maderos personal staff, was not Killed but was taken prisoner. Raoul Madero was wounded. R. F., Harrington, former sergeant in the United States army. who lived ] at El Paso; Robert E. Lee and Robert Evans of san Francisco and Roy Glenn, a boy of Mineral Springs, Tex, were killed The names of other Americans killed or taken prisoners gre not known. letter written by Madero was re- ceived here today in which he denied he made another attack on the town after he was driven away. He asserts, however. that he has gathered force of 1000 men and Is nov within few miles of the town. His explanation of the defeat Is that several of the scouts sent out to reconnoiter before l the attack failed to report the coming of Colonel Cuellar with federal force. The unexpected arrival of the federals resulted in a panic among the insur- rectos. The scouts, he said, had been
 shot.
 Give No Quarter
 The news from Mexico City that , President Diaz had decided to take | advantage of provisions of the consti-
 tuition so that summary death may be 4 imposed by the military authorities for any acts of violence and that the Mex q ican government has decided to wage a sharp and decisive war of extermina- T ton speedily to end hostilities. has spread throughout the insurgents. The 4 reply, through insurrecto sympathizerS 4 here, is that in retaliation of the revo- | lutionary forces hereafter will expect and give mo quarter.'
 $ Information from insurreeto sources is \ that the attitude of the Mexican govern < ment will intensity situation already \ tense and it necessarily will impose fur ther hardships on non-combatants, in N cluding women and children living in the h small towns scattered. throughout the 3 "war zone.' .-.,s.-
 E No word has come from the city of a Chihuahua for seven days. It is reported N the insurrectos are encamped around the 3 city, 12 miles distant in each direction, D and are successful in maintaining stop M page of trains and telegra phic communi- N cation both north and south. When the N last word was received seven days ago 1t f was that the food question already had N become critical. meat and breadstuffs hay ing been exhausted.
 The continued insolation of the place \ has given rise to grave fears as to the \ fate of the 25,0oO inhabitants. The pres f ence in the city of aoO0 federal troops un- '$ der General Juan Hernandez, while being H looked upon as sufficient protection f against any attack, is thought to have N more than ordinarily depleted rations. x Like conditions prevail in many small N towns. The Mexican federal troops nave been provided with military train by VI which they hope to be able to carry sup VI plies to the isolated districts, but the II burning of bridges and the blowing up MI of the tracks for miles has made the M plan impossible. The trains are steel M covered and provided with loop holes for A5 the action of the machine guns. N The best informaticn obtainable here as ,H to the strength of the opposing sides in Al Sonora and Chihuahua states is that the A federals under General Navarro have Al total of 5000 men, of whom 200O are in Hf Chihuahua city, 450 in Juarez and the N rest scattered, while the insurrectos un- M der Madero and General Pasaoual Orozco RI have about an equal number, but with M no one force larger than 1000
 VI In his letter Madero announced he H had taken prisoner and would hold for VI trial, Col Jose Solo, member of his own W staff. Al The arrival of United States troops III here today occasionel much interest The
 II arrivals were two troops of the Fourth X cavalry from Fort Meade, s. D. With M four more troops due tomorrow from Ft. N Smelling, Minn.. and the troops already ' 3here they will compose a force of 900 men under Col E. z. Steever.
 From their post at Ft Bliss the troops have a direct view of the mountains in Mexico.