La Junta tribune., 1913-05-10
Ao,os, MEXICAN Wan,
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ed during the six days battle. There
is no way Of finding out how many
! of the state troops were either XIII
ed or wounded. as most OF ui.ir
wounded were taken TO their own
hosp!tal a, Cananen and most OF their
dead were burned or buried where
they fell Part OF their wounded
were taken to the American army
hospital
The Federal wounded and the Con
stitutionalisfs fraternized IN the hos
pi,ai after II was all over. and one
O. Ojeda's officers told rebel offi'
Ger where they had concealed eleven
cases of dynamite. The rebels
went and found IT and made hand
bombs of i, tn use In their next
battle This dynamite had quite
history. 1t originally belonged TO
{ the rebels and they sent 1t into Ma
co Thursday night on d steel CONDO
Ia car by gravity with time fuse
to shake up Don Pedro" as Gen.
Obrcgon expressed II. II Was not
enough to blow up the town. but II
didn't even scare any one as the
fuse did not work and IT was cap
tured by the Fedcrals This is the
way one OF the Federal sympa,hizers
told the story
The car came flying down the
track. but our brave Captain So and
So cried. I will risk my life to save
my brave soldiers. and he swung on
To the car. set the brakes and pluck
ed the burning fus. from the dyna'
mite"
That story Is all true except for
a few minor details The car came
slowly down the track. gently stop
ped on switch near the round
house where II was found the next
morning. For some reason tn" time
fuse did not work. so the federa's
took the dynamite and then. after the
town was captured, the state troops
got 1t back. Klos showed II TO-
me Monday morning He also gave
me three hand bombs which did
not explode but which are full of
dynamite will have my wife. or
some one else. take the dynamite out
of them and will then send them
back to Colorado for souvenirs. Two
of them are mad. out Of bull hide
with the hair still on It, and they I
have handle n coupl. OF feet
long by which they can be swung and
thrown nny or sixty yards after the
fuse is lighted. When they explode.
Adios
saw the funeral Of . rebel h"u'
tenant whom they buried In the 1T
tie cemetery east Of town Most o'
Ia. priyat.s were buried by fire. IN
other words. burned up. | got some
fine pictures Of the military fnn"r
ais. battle SCARED houses. dob"
hous. partly destroyed by hand
bombs. burial BY fire" the captnr'
ID artillery. etc. etc,
The Officers cf the state troops
did not allow any cantinas open on
their side @, the line which pre-
vented a good deal of drunkenness
The one saloon on the Arizona side
was open at intervals Some Of the.
YaanIs cam. over and celebrated
little. but there was no trouble There
would have been. however II they
could hayo gotten all thcy Aanlei
Just 10 show how lazy m. Meri
cans are. there we're probably fifteen
hundred state soldiers In town
Monday. vet not thing vas done
to clean the town up IN one corral
saw the bodies Of five dead hors"s
that had been dad five or siS DAYS
In the vol. IN this same corral. the
Foderals during 10. week had PA,
the bodies OF twenty fis. Maderistss.
part oi whom they had executed. and
part Of waom had been Killed Ia the
bull ring IN III. assault the rrst
DAY of the battle. In a gully di
r.crly south OF town th.r. were N.
bodicr OF about ,s.nty ,flS. f.ierals
and rebels that. had been dead fiS.
OF six days They had Just barely
been covered With sand and dirt. bui
tn. Wind had blown /, OFF You car
imaxin. the condition the town Was
In from this. y", not thing Mas
done to clean II M. Ia ojcda's cunr-
tel to which gained admitiance
through the Kindness of my friend
klos. two steers had been killed
Af,.r cutting OFF ~hai meat they
wanted, the rest of III" animals ~"r.
left lying on the ground II would
Kill = whit. man la ilN. amid such