The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-12-02
CLASH ON BORDER
AMERICANS AND cARRANzIsTAs
WOUNDED BEFORE MISTAKE
IS DISCOVERED.
VILLISTAS FIRE ON YANKEES
Funston's Men Kill Forty Mexleans In
Fight at NoaaleS, Ariz--GeneraI OBJ
RECON Defeats Northern Leaders
Force and Occupies Town.

Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 2s.-Three
American miners were killed, two
American soldiers were probably
fatally shot and one slightly wounded
and forty Villistas were killed by
American troops when the Villa gar.
rison of 1900 withdrew from the Mex
lean town of Nogales on Friday before
an advancing force of 5000 Carran-
zistas.
Stephen Little of Fairmont, N. c.,
one of three United States soldiers
wounded in a battle with Villa troop
ers in Nogales, Sonora, died here. He
was shot through the head.
Seven Carranzista soldiers were shot
by American troops who mistoOK
them for Villistas as they were ad-
vancing on the town. Three Ameri-
cans were wounded.
The Carranzistas under Gen. Alvaro
Obregon occupy Nogales, while the
Villista garrison is scattered east and
west along the border line. Many OF
the Villa force under Governor RAN
dali sought refuge on the American
side. Governor Randall himself was
the first to cross the line.
The evacuation of the town began
at night. 1t was preceded by whole
sale looting. About 300 of the gar
rison got away on the first trains.
The last two trains on which about
900 soldiers we're crowded could not
be moved for lack of fuel.
Trouble with American troops start
ed about IL a. m. when these soldiers
after sacking the town began to fire
across the line. Colonel Sage, COM
manding the American troops, ordered
the fire returned. OF band of forty
seen firing across the border only one
escaped.
Early in the afternoon the van.
guard of the CarranZista force ap-
peared in the hills near the American
line west of Nogales. Mistaking them
for Villistas again about to fire on
them, the american border guard
opened with a volley. The Carran-
zistas replied and a sharp exchange
of shots ensued. The appearance of
Carranza soldier with a white flag
was followed by explanations and mu-
tual apologies
AS the Carranzistas drew near the
last of the Villa garrison fed south
ward. OF these thirty-two were
killed by pursuing cavalrymen from
Obregon's force.
1t was by others who fed in the
same direction that the three Ameri-
can miners, Adolfo Menger Lloyd
Forrest and James S. Walton were re-
ported killed twenty miles south of
the town. News of their murder was
brought here by a Mexican rancher
who says he witnessed the shooting.
He adds that he could not learn of
any reason for the triple killing.
Washington, Nov. 29.-Three Amer
ican soldiers were wounded, two of
them seriously. in a battle with Car
rama troops on the boundary line at
| Nogales, Ariz., at noon, according to
| dispatches to the war department
Gen. Frederick Funston is now on his
way to Nogales from Fort Sam Hous.
ton, Tex. to take personal charge of
the situation.
The reports to the war department
stated that the Carranza soldiers who
entered Nogales, Mexico, shortly after
Villa troops had fed into the Interior
opened fire by mistake on the Ameri
can forces. The Americans imme
diately returned the fire and several
Carranza soldiers and officers were
wounded. The wounded Americans
are Privates Herbert L. Gates, Ste
phen Little and Arthur L. Saute, all
of Company L, Twelfth infantry
Gates and Little were seriously
wounded.