The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1915-11-05
VILLA DEFEATED
IN 2-DAY FIGHT
Rebel Forced to Cease Attacks
on Aqua PTiata.
SHELLS HIT II ON U. S. SIDE

Gen. Gales, CarranZa Commander, IN
flcts Heavy Losses on Yaqui In
dians Who Bear Brunt of Battle
City Bombarded Shows Little Signs
of Battfe-Several Women Killed.
DOUGLAS, ARIz. Repulsed
after rereated terrific assaults upon
the Can canza garrison at Aqua Prleta,
Sonora, throughout Monday afternoon
and night, the army of General Villa
Tuesday withdrew and protested to
be waiting FOR more ammunition and
reinforcemcnts.
ThrC wing themselves against the
Carranza fCTtifications protecting Aqua
Prieta with terrific fury at o'clock
Tuesday morning as climax to
fourteen-hour attack the Villistas
made the supreme attempt Of the
night to carry the breastworks by
storm. The CarranZista defenders ex-
ploded mines and ploughed into their
ranks with machine guns and shrap'
mel until the entire Villa army was
thrown back. The Villa-Yaqui Indian
contingent is said to have borne the
brunt of the charge, General Gales,
the Carranza commander asserts, and
that at least 800 of the Villa troops
were killed in that one charge alone.
Renewed at Daybreak.
At daybreak the Villa gunners re,
newed their cannonading while a
large force of Villa cavalry headed
back southeast for ammunition, it was
explained later. Ammunition food and
reinforcements were all expected, the
Villistas asserted. They also claimed
that they would attack again Monday
afternoon and capture the town. The
attack was resumed at noon but only
feebly and soon degenerated into an
afternoon of sniping with an occas-
sional exchange of artillery shots and
machine gun broadsides.
Eleven Shot on American Side.
Eleven persons had been shot on
the American side of the line up to
Tuesday evening. two American sol
diers having been added to the list in
the morning shortly before noon when
bullets from Villa machine guns hit
Sergeant Walter Mayo and Private
James Mitchell, who were in a trench
near the United States custom house.
General Funston, who reached
Douglas Tuesday morning at 7:45 to
take command of the American
forces, just as the battle sounds were
dying away from the all night contest
between Villa and Gales, sent sharp
warnings to both Villa and Gales that
the wounding of Americans must stop.
U. S. Victims.
The list of those struck by bullets
on the American side of the border
are as follows:
Louis F. Taylor, restaurant employee,
struck in spine; Corporal E. Nj. Jones,
18th infantry. shot through both
thighs; Ollie Y. Whidden, private.
company A, eth infantry, hit in neck;
E. K. Jones, letter carrier, wounded in
shoulder; Harry Jones, private, 18th
infantry, struck in stomach, probably.
fatally; James Tank, private, 18th in
fantry, hit in legs; Sergeant Walter
MAYO. and Private Mitchell, 7th in
fantry, Mayo in the right hand, Mitch
ell in the left leg; Sergeant Henry
Wardell, company A, 18th infantry,
hip broken in pocket by bullet; Mexi-
can boy, shot on American side of
line, name unknown; Mexican woman,
lost finger, shot off while near custom
house.
Kill 35 Women and Children.
Major James A. Ryan, 18th cavalry
received report that thirty-five wom-
en- and children were killed in Aqua
Prieta and thirty-five women and chill
dren wounded