El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-02
VILLA QUITS TO
GO At TER WATER.
Aqua Prieta Battle Con
tinues Through Most
of the Night.
Continued from Page II

The American trenches were plenti-
fully sprinkled with bullets also; pri-
vate Jones was hit while guarding
company wagon near the American
army field hospital
Private James Tank. company D, 18th
infantry, was struck in the legs by
bullet that fell into section OF trench
a few feet from the customs house
shot by Crazed soldier.
Corporal T. NJ Jones, company q,
Seventh infantry. was also wounded
Corporal Jones was shot through both
thighs by Carranza soldier late last
night. The CarranZa soldier leaped
from the trenches at Aqua Prleta,
, shouted Viva Carranza" and fired six
shots at Jones. who was on patrol near
the boundary, in the rear Of the Gus
. toms house. Jones is not seriously
wounded.
No move was made by any Of the
United states army attachments TO re-
turn the fire.
villa Quits for Water.
Observers on the American side this
morning reported that Villas troops had
drawn off not in retreat but TO pro-
cure water.
Their canteens were empty, and many
. had not tasted food for twenty-four
I hours or more. according to some OF
/. the soldiers ana officers who ap-
preached the border.
Villa still intends to take Aqua
Prieta. they declared
Some Of them were served with wa
. ter yesterday by civilians at the Doug
las slaughter house. west of the city.
but were stopped when Gen Gales
made a protest
Three Hundred Naquis Killed.
Mines exploded by Gales west OF
Aqua Prieta killed 800 Yaquis. accord
Ing to reports from the Mexican town
One Mexican woman refugee, among
the throng at the custom house during
the machine gun fusillade yesterday,
lost a finger by a bullet
one bullet plunged through a win
dow, within a foot Of major George c.
StulL army chaplain who was sitting
on the porch. Another struck a post
on the northern end of the building.
but a foot or two above the head OF
second lieutenant Frank F. ScOwdOn,
or the Eleventh infantry. The first
battalion OF the Eleventh was on duty
at the customs house
Refugees Protected.
Major John 81 Bennett. and his com
pany commanders, Capts. John 3.
SchOeff and G. A. Wieser. rushed the
Mexican women refugees and their
children into the American trenches.
Twenty-three hundred refugees con-
ceutrated at camp ar Pirtleville. a
suburb, last night, were practically
without water all night Dr.. J. J. +.
Armstrong. Calles's chief surgeon, de-
clared this was due TO dilatOriness Of
American officials The refugees We're
without lights last night. and food sup
plies were scaut until today
AEuu Prteta Holds Out.
Daybreak showed that little damage
been done in last nights attack The
barbed wire entanglements constructed
by Cen Gales 10 defend Aqua Prieta,
with the exception OF one gap OF about
twenty feet, appeared intact while the
earthworks showed little effect OF the
rain Of shells poured upon them all
night by the Villa artillery
The town, however, showed many
damaged buildings and the list Of dead
am a fIaaN n Hnaasan
Maj James A. Ryan. 18th cavalry. re- B
ceived a report today that 50 women
and children were killed in Aqua Prieta
and 50 women and children wounded
After the last heavy bombardment /
this morning at o'clock the Villa
forces, which at some points had ap- /
preached TO within a few hundred yards |
Of the wire entanglemeuts. fell back |
about mile and commenced entrench-
inS
Houses Blown Up.
Three houses on the western side of Z
Aqua FrIeta were blown up by shells, |
and, according to reports brought from
the CarranZa dressing stations in the J
trenches, one man was killed and seven /
other persons wounded, including a I
woman
one of Villas wounded was brought I
TO Douglas for treatment. Two others I
were seen to fan when a shrapnel shell |
burst over them What further losses /
he sustained among his men could not !
be ascertained- A shell burst over one 4
OF MS teld pieces. however, putting /,
the gun out of action
villa Troops Determined.
The right TANKS of the Villa forces !
rested squarely on the boundary fence 1
at a point about 500 yards from the 7
Douglas slaughter house.
Villas soldiers We're still apparently /
without food or water but expressed "a /
grim determination to force their way \
into Aqua Prieta-
Unless i'm the serious attempt made !
early this morning to break through /
the wire acknowledgements. Villas losses /
on the east were comparatively small. !
which they were subjected.
American Is shot.
The first American victim Of the J
ilghtlng. l. F. Taylor, aged 80, was !
shot in the back yesterday afternoon by |
stray bullets from a Villa machine !.
gun flying over the line near the b.
American branch custom house The Z
custom house was also hit several 7
times Mr.. Taylor was paralyzed from J
the waist down He was taken to the
Calumet and Arizona hospital His
mother, Mrs. NJ T. Howard, lives in {
Angels camp, Calaveras county, Cali I
fOrnia-
Soldiers Almost struck.
Just prior To this two shells from /
Calles's guns fell on the American side {
and one struck within 10 feet Of com I
pany +, 18TH infantry. Two fell so |
feet from company II, same regiment !
Nobody was hurt
Villa men TO change their angle of fire.
The message from Gen. Davis was de
llvered by MAJ Mark l. Jersey to Gen.
Sautebanez, who promised TO correct !
the fire
A procession Of hundreds OF refugees.
women and children. marching across Z
the border, was taken TO a cOnceutra- !
uon camp at Firtleville. a mile and a I
halt from Douglas, Gen Gales prOvid- Z
ing them with supplies.
Villa ReinfOrcements.
MAJ Juan Vargas. Of the Villa forces
came to the border late yesterday
afternoon and announced that Cen
I rbaleJo, Villa commander i'm chief at !
Naco- Gen FructuOsC MeudeZ and Gen. /
Francisco Acosta We're advancing from (
the direction Of Naco to join Villa from 3
the south and west.
II was also said that water was to .
be brought from Nacozari by train for
the Villa forces
WOUNDED MAN KNOWN HERE
Corporal r. A. Jones. who was
wounded at Douglas by the bullets from
the Mexican side is % years old and
Us "a native of Pittsburg. Pa He is a
member OF -nn.rrmr- a. gar-arrHb