Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-10
MEXICAN REBELS
WIN 3 DAYS. FIGHT
Capture of City in Northern
Part of Country Opens Way
of Invasion.
AMERICAN MINING MAN
WOUNDED DURING BATTLE
Border Towns Threatened by
$500 Observation-Disclosures
Orders Forces Under Arms.

DOUGLAS, Ariz., March 10-After
battle lasting from Saturday morn
ing until yesterday afternoon, 800
State troops today hold Nacozari. The
$50 Huerta soldiers defending the
town are retreating to Aqua Prieta.
| This news was received here today
when communication was restored be-
low this point
Encamped within striking distance
of several important border towns,
the $500 eonstitutionalistal troops are
resting on arms. while Instructions
among federal garrisons strengthened
materially the rebel forces.
Rebels Mobilize Troops
Mobilization of rebel troops has be-
gun At Magralena 1000 new recruits
organized and are now ready to take
the field The state troops COM
manded trains for use in trans
portation of insurgent troops The
state troop paymaster is paying the
railroad men for their services.
The capture of Nacozari opens the
road, it is believed, to Aqua Prieta,
and if the latter town is taken the
insurgent state troops can march
westward along the border, encoun-
tering only small garrisons at No
gales. Naco and other small towns
At none of the ports of the Sonora
Arizona border are there more than
300 federal troops. All the Huerta
soldiers in Northern Sonora do not
exceed 1000 men, it was said today
on sound authority, while the state
government in its revolt against the
provisional president within few
days has raised an army of nearly
10000 men, according to reports from
various State leaders.
Small Garrisons.
At Nacozari are the 100 men under
Project Bracamonte. of Montezuma.
There were only $50 federal troops
defending Nacozari Saturday and
similarly small garrisons defend
Aqua Prieta, Nogales and Naco.
A strong rebel group from Mag
dalena, beloV Nogales, is reported
moving to the border to assist in at
lacking ports of entry.
Communication remains. cut with
Hermosillo, the state capital, held by
the insurgents, and even with Amer
lean mining settlements near the
border. There is some anxiety for
American mining men at Nacozarl
and at Cananea, on a part of the
Southern Pacific of Mexico, which
road also has been cut by State
troops.
Added proof of the capture of
Nacozari, the first victory for the in
surgent Sonora troops, came with the
arrival at Aqua Prieta of special
train bearing It's defeated federals.
Lieutenant-Colo Lopez, the federal
commander, had been shot through
the neck and was in a critical condi-
ton. Twenty soldiers were wounded.
No Americans were hurt, except
j. S. Williams, sr, mining man,
who was wounded Saturday. The
federals admitted that Nacozari was
in control of the constitutionalists.
General Ojeda declared that he will
evacuate Aqua Prieta only on orders
from Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY, March 10,-A force
of 500 followers of Venustiano Car
rama. the rebel governor of the state
of Coahuila, this morning threatened
the town of Lampazos in the state
of Nuevo Leon. Lampa2os, located
seventy-five miles southwest of La
redo. Texas. is one of the most inn
portant towns in the State.
Send Troops to Town.
| AS soon as the news reached here
General Jose Maria Mier was ordered
to take 900 federal troops from Mon
terev 100 miles away and make ar
effort to prevent the rebels entering
| the town.
No reports have reached the fedora
capital during the past twelve hours
as to Carranza whereabouts, but hf
is believed to be still near Bajan
where he retired after his defeat neal
| Reata.
WASHINGTON. March 1O.-Major-
General Wood, chief of staff, today
received advices of current reports at
Eagle Pass that the rebels under
Colonel Carranza were concentrating
at Monclavo to make stand against
the federal army.
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