The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-27

taS VINO Had Looted City.
NoGALEs, Ariz., Nov. 27.-At least
20 Mexican troopers were killed in
Nogales, Mexico, shortly after noon
yesterday by the fire of American
troops. Two American soldiers were
killed and eight wounded
The dead are believed to have been
Carranzistas. The American troops
thought they were Villistas at the time
Of firing. Following the evacuation of
Nogales, Sonora, by the Villa forces
some stragglers from the Villa army
remained in the main town drinking,
looting and shooting their rifles at in
tervals.
About noon bullets began to fall on
the American side of the line and an
American trooper was wounded. The
American soldiers, on orders of their
commander, Col. w. H. Sage, Twelfth
Infantry returned the fire and six Mex
leans were seen to fall
For a time there was a rapid eX
change of shots from each side of the
line. The Americans believed they
were shooting at Villista stragglers,
| but it is believed the bullets came
from Carranzista soldiers, who were
| lust beginning to enter the evacuated
town The Carranzistas thought the
bullets came from the Villistas still in
INogales, Sonora.
| During the firing the Americans saw
a band of mounted horsemen dashing
down the principal street of the Mexl-
can town and mistook them for re-en-
| forcements for the supposed Villistas
| Out of this command q messenger rode
to the American line to take word that
the Carranzistas had arrived and We're
occupying tle place. He was shot from
his horse by the American fire.
Col. Cardenas. commanding the ad-
| vance guard of the Carranza forces
soon had conference on the interna
tional boundary on the international
boundary with Col Sage and assured
him that the CarranZistas could contro
the situation in the Sonora town.
| Throughout the morning, for some
hours before the actual exchange of fire
over the line, stragglers left behind II
he. Sonora town by the retreating Vii
la army had been firing at intervals in
to Arizona, and Col Sage had every
reason to believe when bullets began
to fall in volleys that it was deliber
ately done by these men,
Gems. Obregon and Gales reached
Nogales shortly before their advance
, guard had taken possession. Gen. Oh
RECON expressed regret at the inciden
: in which the soldiers of the two coun
: tries had fred on each other He sait
: he would Immediately despatch hi
main force after the retreating Vill'
army.
He asked Col. Sage for the extradi
: ton of Carlos Randall, the acting Vii
+ la governor of Sonora, who with Ger
Acosta took refuge in Nogales, Ariz
: when the Villa Garrison quit Nogale:
! Sonora. Gen. Oregon charged Randal
with responsibility for the execution o
. Edgar Bean, the American enginee
: killed this week by Villa forces afte
+ being forced to draw their trains on
: of Cananea. The American officer
! placed Randall and Acosta under
) heavy guard to protect them.
| Gen. Villa after a hurried trip t
Nogales, Mexico, returned south yestel
, day with his garrison. Just what vi
Ia S object is American army officer
: cannot figure out, unless he has mad
I better progress in his attack upon Hel
4 mosillo than has been generally though
B and either holds the town or feels cor
Z fdent when REINFORCED of capturin
: the city and breaking through to til
y coast.
, Re-enforcements arrived today fc
the American troops stationed here
Batteries G and D and the headqua
: tiers of the First Battalion, Sixth Fiel
Artillery. under Lieut.-Gov. w. l.. Kel
lie nelly arrived here from Douglas at ]
A. clock this morning.
-e James S. Walton, Floyd Forest an
e. Aldofo Menger, American mining mel
se have been executed by Villa troops
e miles south of Nogales. Their exec
d. ton was confirmed by another Amer
can who arrived here from the sout
= He says he saw them shot by firm
squad, but did not know why they WEI
killed. All the victims are Easter