Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-11-02
BULLETS RAIN
OVER BORDER AS
factions % FIGHT
Villa and Carransa Armies Meet
in Fierce Battle Near
Arizona Line
AMERICAN SHOT ON
STREETS OF DOUGLAS
Mexicans Warned That They
Must Change Direction Of
Their Fire

Douglas, Nov. 1.-The general at
tack OF the Villa army Of Aqua Prieta
began at $3.50 p. m.8tonight. The fir
ing was very heavy. s-5a.
What appeared to be a general at
tack on Aqua Prieta began at G:30
o'clock tonight when the Villa forces
began heavy firing from all sides and
advanced on the town.
The firing caused when the Villa
troops had reached the wire entagle-
ment OH the east side Of Aqua Prieta
and began to dig themselves in.
Meanwhile, the CarranZa garrison
was sweeping the Villa forces from all
sides of the town, with frightful ma
chine gun volley guided by search
lights.
Shower Over Line.
Within two hours after the first gun
was fired, machine gun bullets and
shell fragment showered over Ameri:
can territory, seriously wounding Lew
is F. Taylor, a restaurant waiter, and
endangering scores OF American sol.
diers in trenches south Of the United
States army camp, two miles east of
Douglas. ..
Taylor was shot down in front of the
United States Custom House, where
more than 70 machine gun bullets
spread among a throng Of soldiers
and Mexican women and children who
were coming across the line. The bull
let struck him in the middle of the
back, as he turned I'D ruin to cover
and his spine was injured, .paraly:ing
his almost completely. Shells and
| fragments of shells fell near this city.
Mexicans Warned.
General Thomas Davis, command
ing the 5000 American troops on duty
at the border, promptly warned the
commanders of both Mexican factions
to change the direction of their fire
and citizens OH the American side
were not endangered thereafter. J..
On the Mexican side losses could
not be ascertained up to nightfall,
which brought a lull in the combat
but Villa artillery firing successive
volleys played on the defenses of the
Mexican city, with the apparent inten-
tion of shattering the barbed wire en-
tanglements and exploding the trench
es preparatory to rush on the gaIri-
son of General Gales.
American border guards reported
that a party of Villa troops caught on
the American side had been disarmed.
This was unconfirmed at brigade head.
quarters.
Many Refugees.
Hundreds of women and children,
refugees from Aqua Prieta, are suffer.
ing here from hunger and cold tonight
as General Gales had not yet arrived
With four shells and a brief dis.
charge of rapid frers. Villa threw a
new fusilade at the Carranza trench
es at 9:.53 and 10 o'clock tonight
Gales reported his losses tonight
as eight killed and "a wounded. He
claimed the dash of the Villa troops
to the Aqua Prieta wire ENGAGEMENTS
had been repulsed with a loss of at
least 200 to the Villa troops.
Washington, Nov 1.--After, consult.
alton TODAY ihctwecn the White House
and war department it was decided
that the orders given to American
troops on the border last May-to re,
turn any fire from Mexican territory
that endangered lives on the Ameri-
can side of the line. would '5e effect
i've in the present situation at Doug
las.