Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-10-19
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BY HEELS "
Sam L. suplse Of Albuquerque
in Adobe House in Old Mex
loo While Hot Battle Is in
Progress; Escapes in Safety,

49,
To he captured first by the rebels
and made prisoners Of war and then
20 be taken over by the fcdcrals and
required to explain how they hap
pcned to be mixed up with the rebels
Is the somewhat embarrassing and
rather dangerous position in which
sam l.. Suplcc, of Aibuau"rqur and
others found themselves several day \
ago In the vicinity OF lei Tigrr Mexico.
where Suploc IL employed d. III Tigrc
Mining Co. suplee and companions,
while prisoners OF war; were compel.
ed to undergo an examination III.
rectrd by Salazar and Roils, rebel
leaders. while being questioned 10y
the rebels. the latter were surprised
by the federals and hot battle en-
sued Suplce and his friends were
placed In an adobe nous under
heavy guard and Witnessed IN" light
between the opposing armics. Bullets
raincd like hail about ia. adobe
house In which Suplee was confined.
Suplcc dcscUihcs the battle iu detail
ny follows, In u letter to n relative In
| this city
writing from III T1Rre.
VIII give You a slight description
at our experience with IN, robcls
-Four ur us, all Americans ana Tigrc
! employees, except one, left Douglas for
/ Nlahcl with fourteen hors,s Tor tho
stage line tu replace the ones stolen.
/ "A hon
! fruntcrns. We saw bunch uf men
about u half mile from the road. They
! inutiunod Tor us 10 go to them We
/ paid NO attention and kept riding ON.
/ Soon they dashed off OF the hin to
! head us of, which they did ana each
! had u rifle In one hand nud pistol In
| ia" other and soon we wrrr looking
! down the barrels. They searched M
| at once. Just took my spurs. but got
two pistols from the other fellows.
! They then took ny to the main camp.
| about two miles from whcrr they held
us up. and up before Snlnzar aud Ru-
ins, They wanted To know what we
were doing there ana wanted to know
IL we didn't know that we had no bus
lness In this country. About that
| time they spird the smoke from n
train. SnluZnr despatched about a
Hundred men to see what kind of q
train II was. soon we heard some
shots aud he sent another bunch
Then Their" WAS considerable shoot
Ing ANA his men were coming hucl,
and tn" firing getting pretty heavy,
They were punching In the river bot
tom and over six hundred In the
band Then they rctroatcd upun the
mcsn for the bullets were singing In
all directions and we were getting UNI
easy too, So asked Snlnzir what he
was ge4ng tn do with ~. lie said for
us to get into n small adobe house
that was clos" 10y 30 We got into II
pretty quick, though We had n guard
over M. About that time conditions
were pretty warm. Bullets were com
ing through the doors. windows and
the roof too. The frdrrdlH were get
ting pretty close Hnd Wc were be-
tween two fires ana II looked rather
serious men Killed ana wounded all
around, though not a one uf ny
showed any excitement Just talked
ana smoked. The bullets ratified like
hail; the f"dcrals kept gIlning ground
ana the rebels rrtrratug aud then
the fcdCrals got t. VIII, re- We were.
Then we had a. do some quick cx-
| planning To- "a let them know that we
were prisoners ana not rebels They
Fought until dark then va we're sent
with Homo wounded e. Tho train and
| on To FTOnteTas that nrht. The reb-
els lost over thirty klll,d, the federnls
only five killed but more than twenty
! five wounded. II certainly wnH nhnndy
crap. They had n small scrap the
next morning and then The rebels re-
treated east. They lout,d Morales OF
everything; all the MurmOns went Ia
| Douglas; they also had stiff fight
here, II number Killed looted the
stores and took twcn, one bars OF
bullion. The Company has since goa
that buck; II was too hruvy To pnclS
far All the American got IN the
mine 30 they were IN uu danger, they
| didn't have time t. l",' the houses,
the federalS were too close. 1 have
been over at the mine. Was gone five
days. Everything b. 'ooking good
there; no sign Of any !, nrll either. II
was some lonesome Rulrg through the
canyon. ! met the Chnk cook from
Carrctns In Sun MIgu,l he has been
M tho ranch alone for u long time
the rebels robbed that place several
times of horses, catluu ana provis-