Arizona republican., 1915-04-14
In Sortie, Carranza Garri- son Inflicts Heavy Blow
 on Villa Army Report
 Saying Three Hundred Troopers Are Killed DRAWS LONG
 PROMISED SPELLING
Both Factions Refuse to Permit Persons to Cross River at Brownsville to Obtain Direct News of the Fighting
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BROWNSVILLE, April 13.-In a sortie the Carranza garrison at Mata- moras inflicted heavy blow to the Villa army besieging them. General Navarro, second in command of the Villa troops was brought to Browns vile dangerously wounded. The Car ranZa consulate here claimed the Villa dead numbered 300.
 The sortie drew from the Villa forces the long promised smelling of Matamo ras, but the shelling was stopped when the Carranza garrison returned to the trenches and tonight the firing ceased. All positions of the armies were prac tically unchanged.
 Both factions refused all day and to- night to permit persons to cross the river from Brownsville to abtain direct news of the fighting and both claimed to have won the fight Villa officers said the sortie first drove in the Villa outposts, but the Carranza troops re- up its main forces.
 The Villa troops were known to have some dead and wounded but they de- nied the number was 300.
 Col Blocksom, in charge of the United States post and border patrol here, arranged to guard the American side of the boundary closely tonight and extra forces were sent to the in- ternational bridge.
 The Carranza consulate issued the following statement after the battle: "Our forces captured prisoners. about 200 horses large amount of ammuni- tion and rapid fire guns and a large number of carbines We also captured
 all the Villista supplies of food this side of Las Rucias.
 "On our side the losses so far were r killed and 50 wounded. Among the
 killed was Lieut. Colonel Guerrero" During the bombardment eight shells passed completely over Matamoras and four others dropped in the city, where they did little damage. The shelling demonstrated that so long as the Villa cannon retain their present position to | the extreme west of Matamoras,
 Brownsville probably will be safe from shell fire but it seemed to demonstrate l sharply what would happen to Browns i vile if the besieging artillery fired at l MatamOraS from any other direction. Shells from other points fired as those l sent over Matamoras would have | dropped into Brownsville. The last
 shots from the Villa artillery were | fired when a train of freight cars, arm
 ored and with machine guns attempted to leave Matamoras in the direction of the Villa lines The Villa guns dropped | two shells close to the train, whereupon the engineer backed into Matamoras. i Prisoners Are Executed | LAREDO, Texas, April 13.-Mexican soldiers at Nuevo Laredo declared
 that General Maclovio Herrera caused 200 Villa followers and prisoners to be executed after the Villa defeat near Huisachito, twenty miles south. The CarranZa commanders reply to ques- | tions was: The prisoners have been
 disposed of
 l In his official report to Carranza
 regarding the battle, Herrera, it is 1 said, did not mention the executions. 1 Information tonight from CarranZa officers and soldiers in Nevo Laredo | indicated that $50 Villa soldiers who surrendered after yesterdays battle between the Villa and Carranza armies near Huisachito, 30 miles south of the border, as well as number of | Mexican women, were summarily eX- ecuted by the CarranZa forces. The 1 CarranZa general is said to have or dered the machine guns turned on
 one party of surrendering Villa men,
 resulting in the death of seventysix. The wounded, it is said, were bay | Oneted on the field.
 Another Carranza officer is credited
 with having killed 120 prisoners with machine guns, while other CarranZa . lConfin1Iad Paaa TMnA