Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-27
TWENTY FIVE MEXICANS SHOT BY
 TROOPS
TauntS of Past Week From Villa Garrison at NOgaIeS at Last Answered By American Troops With Disastrous Results.
THREE AMERICANS ARE
 HIT IN ENGAGEMENT
Party of Carranza Cavalry Is Mistaken for Villa Troops and Fired Upon; Return Fire Kills One and lnjureS Two.

MORALES. Nov 26. Fulfilling their threats that they would fight the American before leaving the border snipers posted in Nogales. Sonora. af- ter Villa evacuated fired on the sol diers of the Twelfth United States In- fantry. The Americans who endured the taunts Of cowardice for week. re- turned the fire and more than twenty five MeNicans were killed
 Three Americans were wounded, one of whom, stephen Littles died Another Herbert Gates, is not expect ed to live The American casualties were suffered in brush with Carran- ga cavalry, mistaken iar ,rlla ,,oops, as they rushed over the hill Co enter Che town In the exchange of shots three Carrauza soldiers were shot One of them was courier sent to ape prise Colonel Sage. the American com mander that the Carauza forces had captured the town He was shot in the wrist The horse under him was riddled with bullets
 The Americans wounded belonged Co Company l.. Twelfth Infantry. who engaged the Carrauza cavalry after fellow members from the Twelfth had driven Villa suipers. estimated at two hundred. from the Mexican town. where an orgy of footing. attended by ] the consumption of a large quantity l Of liquor preceded the dghting The 1 firing across the border continued in- Itemitteuuy between eleven and one i Six thousand Carranza soldiers. uu- der General Obrpgon now hold Nogal- es Sonora Obregon is reported to
 have defeated the main Villa body
 which attempted to escape from No
 gales at point where the Villa troops trains were stalled twelve miles south
 The fate Of Villa and his men has not
 been ascertained Although reereHng the American casualties the fact that ithe Americans returned the fire eradi-
 cated any apprehension which has eN-
 isted since Villa took possession of
 Nogales. Sonora.
 Colonel Sages order of pick your
 man and fire" opened the engagement
 tAA lnN0fN llAIII TO hF' uh Irf lIAAfA tlr lL.'.
 man who assured the residents of
 their first untroubled sleep for week.
 Colonel Sage was not in command al
 the time Colonel Brown, Of the twelfth Cavalry was senior but hay
 ing arrived shortly before the fighting
 Brown requested Sage to act
 He was on the line when an intoXi-
 cated Villa soldier wrested rife
 from woman and fired at the Ameri-
 cans patroling the boundary between the towns This was a signal for the snipers whose bullets began to fall thickly Sage promptly gave the or der to fire. and instructed the infantry men not to harm MeNicans not engag- . ed in sniping
 The Villa snipers attack was anti cipatod An last night the Villa troops as they prepared to evacuate, taunted
 the American soldiers. They dared
 them to fight Even after General
 Acosts. the Villa subordinate and Car ] los Randall. the Villa governor Of Son
 ora, crossed the line and were given | asylum by the United States military [ authorities, Villa soldiers threatened ] to force the fight.
 -I Two hundred of them. ordered oH B overloaded troops trains, made their 3 way back to Nogsles They began e footing and consuming liquor and be- D came uncomfortable. Residents oi b the town began coming to the bouNda . Try
 The American military authorities l put the American town under maTsiaI s law and drove the crowds back rom f. the border
 ?, The snipers were sileheed after ten tCehtinusd oR Page 5)