Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-05-10
FORMING SEMI. Circle OF
FIRE, INSURGENTS DRIVE
FEDERALS TO GUAYMAS
AFTER DESPERATE AND DECISIVE FIGHTING REBELS SILENCE CANNoNs
AND BEAT BACK The CAVALRY OF GOVERNMENT FORCES SENDING
THEM IN FULL RETREAT SOUTH or The GULF
Chief BULE'S YAQUI INDIANS
PLAYED HAVOC WITH rifle fire

! Nogales, Ariz, May 10.--After des
Iperate and decisive fighting late yes
terday, the federaIs last night with
drew to Guaymas, leaving the state
troops in control of all points NORTH
CT the gulf port The government
troops were utterly routed, say tele
graphic advices today and refugees
I&rrving from the state troop base be
low Ortiz.
Indians on War Path.
Eight hundred insurgents under
JCan Cabral took the aggressive in
! The center of the states advance. De
ployed along the right flank were the
/ Yaqui Indians under Chief Bule, who
pressed against the federal position
with wicked rifle fire. Five hundred
cavalry moved down from the right
wing under Majors Trujllo and Gut
icrrez, with General Farr Obregon,
commander of the state forces, direct
| ing the advance from the center rear,
Sem-Circle of Fire.
So persistent was the insurgents
advance, forming its semi-circle of
FIRE, that soon the federals began to
retreat despite their artillery fire,
which tossed shrapnel behind the
hills and into canyons whore the con
Istitutionalists were concealed
Ten Cannon in Center.
The federal formation seen through
high power glasses from the states
right, had ten cannon in the center
and cavalry to the right, formation
lot 200 men, the main bodies of which
were two miles apart. Both divisions
fell back toward Guaymas. Early to-
day the unconlirmed report came back
over the wires that the state troops
had occupied Guaymas, with the fed
erals in full retreat along the coast to
the south Of the gulf
Surprise the FederaIs.
Nogales, Ariz., May 10--At the fed
eral rear were trains with engines
with steam up ready to assist in the
retreat. Official state advices relate
that during the fighting insurgents
under Major Carlos Felix executed
flank rear movement striking the fed
eral lines at Maytorena, between Ortiz
and Guaymas.
Capture Train.
A train bearing seventy soldiers
and three officers was captured, and in
the fighting sixty federals were killed
and seven privates and four officers
taken prisoners. The insurgents under
Colonel Benjamin Hill also struck the
federal rear, moving in from points
south Of Guaymas
1asty Retreat.
These surprises led to a hasty and
disorderly retreat Of the government
troops. Fifty federal prisoners were
sent to Hermosllo and others are
reported captured and held at the
front. Chief Bule is reported killed,
and heavy losses to his Indians Incl
dent TO charge which resulted in
the capture of much federal artillery,
and heavy losses to both sides. Major
Gutierrez also is named among the
killed.
Celebration of constitutionalist
at Nogales, Arizona, last
night led to riots when government
interfered. Tho police
dispersed the mob after making many
arrests.
Wilson to Hold On.
Washington, d. c., May 10,-Presi-
dent Huerta's reminder to Ambassa
dor Wilson of the limitation imposed
upon him in his ofIic.:s-.As Intercourse
with the the Mexican government is
not expected to change the status of
the American ambassador. Mr.. Will |
son has been doing busines with a |
de facto government in the City of |
Mexico, and although he has not
been able to extend political recogni-
ton, as desired by the Huerta ele-
nent, he will continue to transact the
necessary business of American en-