The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-03-15
SONORA TROOPS VICTORIOUS.
STATE GOVERNMENT GUSTS
HUERTA FORCES FROM
NACOZARI
state Forces Extremely Active I'm
sonora and Outnunbcr Federal
FORCES Ten To Onc-Fighting at
Long Range and Few Killed and
Wounded.

Douglas, AriZ., March 1O.-State
| troops and recruits of Sonora, rally
| ing TO the call of the State govern
| ment to oust all of Huerta's federal
| soldiers from the border country YES
| terday scored their first victory in
| Wrestling NacOZari, an impotant min
| ing town below this point, from the
| federal garrison. The defeated fed
| erals not killed or captured arrived
| early today on q special train at
| Auga Prieta, opposite Douglas, their
commander mortally wounded and 20
| others hurt.
From various points along the Ari-
| zona border come reports of other
movements of State troops against
| border and inland towns held by
small federal garrisons Nine hundred
constitutlonalists began moving today
| against Nogales, Sonora, opposite the
| Arizona town of the same name, and
| 1T is reported that a struggle is in
progress at Eel Eigre, an American
| mining town northeast Of Nacozari.
| reliable reports give the constitu-
uonalist wounded at NacOzari as only
| nine.
Most of the fighting was at long
range. The rebels having no artillery
kept under cover to avoid the fire
OF two machine guns used by the fed
eral garrison. The State troops how
ever. during Saturday night crept
close to the town and early Sunday
| morning began hot fire.
Yesterday afternoon they over
powered the Huerta troops, who fled.
| Added proof of the capture of Ma
cozari, the first victory for the in
| surgent Sonora troops, came with the
| arrival at Auga Prieta of a special
| train bearing 175 defeated federals
| Lieut.. Col. Lopez, federal commander
| had been shot through the neck and
was in critical condition. Twenty
| soldiers were wounded.
No Americans were hurt except j.
;: Williams Jr, a mining man, who
was wounded Saturday. The federals
| admitted that Nacozari was in con-
| troll OF the cOnSttutionalistS.
| The capture of Nacozari opens the
| road, it is believed, to Auga Prieta
| and If the latter town is taken the in
| surgent state troops can march west
ward along the border, encountering
only small garrisons at Nogales, Naco
and other small towns.
At none OF the ports on the Sonora
| Arizona border are there more than
300 federal troops. All the Huerta
soldiers in northern Sonora do not eX-
ceed 1000 men. 1t was said today, on
sound authority, while the state gov
ernment in its revolt against the pro-
visional president within a few days
has raised an army of nearly 1900
men, according to reports from va
rious State leaders.
The Huerta soldiers left their posi-
ton at Eel Tigre during the night, only
to be trapped by the State troops An
hours fight ensued. The State troops
captured so rifles and one machine
gun abandoned by the federals, who
also lost four killed and seven wound
ed before retreating in disorder to-
ward Auga Prieta. The constitutions
alists, under Comisario Camou, re-
turned to El Tigre, being reinforced
by other small troups of State troops
in the neighborhood.