Bisbee daily review., 1912-09-07
REBELS FLEE WITH FEDERALS
 IN HOI CHASE
3S0 Soldiers Under Matus Start for Mountains to Destroy OrOZcO
 Bandits
CBy Joseph I. Cohn)

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 CANANEA. Son. Mex. Sept. 5:- Delayed in Transmissionl Three hundred and eighty soldiers of the 2Sth, 27th and 10th batallions, rnder Col. Matus. left Cananea this morning al about 60 o'clock by special train for Naco. The train consisted of four teen cars. The federals are supposed ly going east from Naco to the Ajo mountains, where they will attempt to engage the rebels under Campas reported in the neighborhoOd of Ma golon peak
 On Wednesday evening a special train was sent out with about 45 vol unteers who were scattered along the railroad for the purpose Of patrolling the tracks and guarding the bridges. Cananea is very quiet at present, there being no excitement whatever. No rebels are reported in the vicinity. Three powerful searchlights are be- ing operated nightly for the purpose of watching the surrounding country, on the lookout for rebel bands.
 Gen. Aleiandro Vega, arrested at Naco recently charged with being a spy of the rebels, is a former Can
  CT for Guadalupe Vindiola. a mer- chant here. Vega is reported to have a passport from the federals in his possession and he claims that he is a peace envoy, attempting to make a compromise with the federals to dis continue the revolution in Sonora. Some people claim that Vega was in the company of Campa's command when it visited Imuris, Santa Cruz and the San Pedro and Turkey Track ranches of the Cananea Cattle com. pany this week, being sent from the latter place to NacO by Campo.
 The official report of the battle with the rebels under Cheche Campos. Francisco del Toro and Luis Fernan- dez, numbering about 14OO men, oc- curing in the southern portion of the state, in the vicinity of Alamos, are to the effect that the rebels were bad ly defeated and lost over 25O killed and many taken prisoners.
 The fighting began in the 21st, and on the 24th over 100 bodies of rebels we're burned.
 On the 21st the rebels attacked Ala, mos, which was defended by 15O fed, erals and no nacionals. the fighting lasting until 10 D. m. At 10:3O Col P. Diaz arrived with 25O soldiers and attacked the rebels at their rear, oD. ening up a deadly fire with machine guns and rifles. At 1:30 fighting ceased and at 4:3O the morning of the 22nd the federals made a flank attack on the rebels left. The reb, els then retreated to Aurora where they stood until 10 a. m., the federais meantime pouring into them a deadly fire from cannon, machine guns and rifles. The rebels then retired fur ther 10 the south, the federals fol lowing, keeping up an intermittent fire until 500 D. m., when the rebels retreated in disorder, going in all di reactions. Other fighting between the small bands of rebels and federal, kept up for the next two days when the reDeis had nearly all entered Sin alba.
 Fourteen men and II women were taken prisoners, 22 guns, one machine gun, three sacks of ammunition. min, hand grenades, one Mondragon can non. with some. ammunition. 6Gl horses and mules all saddled and { number of pack animals were taker Dy the leueraiS.
 The federals report the woundin, of one officer and eight men. I've soldiers killed and three are missing
 The rebels driven out of the Alamo district were badly defeated in thi icinity of Aguacaliente, near Fl Fuer ta, close to the state boundary line Later reports name the rebel loss a over 100.
 At Baca, also a short distance iron Fuerte, the same rebel command were defeated by the federaIs. Tn, federal forces included the 14th ba tallion and rurales under Comand ante Ochoa- The rebels were driver of leaving over SO on the battlefield