The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1913-03-14
HUERTA SOLDIERS
ARE RETREATIKG

Douglas, March l0.--After battle
| lasting from Saturday morning until
yesterday afternoon, 500 state troops
today hold Nacogsri. The $50 Huerta
soldiers defending the town are re-
treating to Agna Prieta. This news
was received here today, when COM
munication was restored below this
point.
The capture of Nacogari opens the
road, it is believed. TO Aqua 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 boader are there more than
800 federal troops. All the Huerta
soldiers in northern Sonora Go not ex-
ceed 1000 men, ii was said today on
sound authority, while the state gov
eminent in its revolt against the pro-
visional president within few days,
raised an army of nearly 10000 men,
according to carefully complied fg-
ures made up from the repor5 OF the
various state troop leaders.
From various points along the Ari-
zona border came reports of move
ments of state troops against border
and inland towns held ~ smail fed
eral garrisons. Nine hundred consti-
tutionalists began moving TO-DAY
against Nogales, Sonora, opposite the
Arizona town of the same name ard
il is reported that a struggle is in
progress at III Tigre, an American
mining town northeast OF Naeovari.
Reliable reports give the number of
constitutionalists wounded al Nacov-
ari as only nine. Lieutenant Colonel
Lopez, the garrison commander, who
W brought hero with 20 other fed
eral wounded, died late this morning
on the way to a hospital OH the Amer
;can side. lie was shot through the
neck.
Most OF tie fighting was at long
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tillery, kept under two machine guns
used by the federal garrison.
The mi aieg carzp at El Tfgre, 20
miles southeast of Douglas, last night
fell into the hands of 160 state troops.
rhe 100 federals of the garrison. fiee-
ing toward the border, were overtak-
en- by the constitutionalists who cap
tured their arms, ammunition and
artillery after sharp skirmish.
The Huerta soldiers during the
night left their posts only to be trap
ped py the state troops who demand
ed their arms. Upon their refusal an
hours fight ensued. The state troops
secured 80 rifles and one machine gun
abandoned by the federals who were
fleeing toward Aqua Prieta.
The federals lost four killed and
seven wounded before retreating in
disorder. The constitutionalists un-
der the command OF Momisario Camou
returned to FL Tigre being reinforced
by other troops of state troops In the
neighborhood. FL Tigre is an Amer
lean mining town located east OF Ma
covari railway,
Communication remained out with
Hermisillo, the stat. capital, held by
the insurgents and even with the Am
erican mining settlements near the
border. There is much anxiety felt
here for the American mining men
at Nacozari on branch of the EI
Paso and Southwestern system and
at Cai.inea on part of the Southern
Pacific OF Mexico which road also has
! been cut off by the state troops.
State troops and recruits OF Sonora
rallying to the call of the state gov
ernment TO oust all of Huerta's fed
eral soldiers from the border states
yesterday, procured their tirst victory
in Wrestling Nacovari. an important
mining town below this point. from
the federal garrison. The defeated
federals not killed or captured arriy-
ed today on special train at Auga
Prieta, opposite Douglas, their COM
mander fatally hurt and many others
wounded.