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500 Americans Chase lnvad-
- ders across Border.
FOES CASUALTIES PUT At SO
Fighting Started When a Mexican
Was Halted by Customs GUARDS.
Twenty-eieht of Our Men Wounded.

Nogaie> AriZ, Aug. 29.-An agree
ment hy which further trouble would
he avoided Was expected 10 result
from conferences between America!t
and Mexican officials who were sum
moned here following fighting n I'll"
international line between American
soldiers ard MeXicanS
Two Americans We're KILLED ana
twenty-eight wounded. The dead
Captain Joseph D. Hungerford Bar
ney Lott, corporal.
Three of the wounded Americans
are reported seriously hurt. l-ieuten-
ant Colonel F. J. Herman ia among
those wounded.
Others who were wounded are LEV
tenant Luke Lotus. Captain ii. {.
Caron, Lieutenant S. Lockwood. Gas
ton Reddock. Il customs guard.
A civilian named Cooley was re-
ported TO have been wounded.
The Mexican casualties are placed
at fifty. fifteen killed. No one is per
mitted to cross to Mexico TO confirm
these figures.
Among the Mexicans killed was F"-
lfx Penaloza. mayor of Nogaies, So
nora, the Mexican town opposite.
Investigation has developed that the
fighting started when a Mexican VIII"
had been passed across the line by
the Mexican customs guards was halt
ed by an American emigration officer.
The American. it was said, drew his
pistol. but did not fire. The Mexican,
it was asserted, opened fire at once
and Immediately the shooting became
general.
A statement issued by Captain Alb
soIava. comnlandant OF the Mexican
garrison. denied that his troops had
participated in the fighting, and de-
clared that the shooting had been
done by customs guards and other
Mexican civilians. However, Ameri-
cans marooned in the Mexican town
stated that the soldiers rushed from
their barracks at the sound of the
first shot and continued to fire volleys
toward the American side until they
were driven off when the American
troops charged.
Army officers spoke with high praise
of the conduct of residents of No@ales
who, by rifle fire from house tops
and other points of vantage, laid down
Il "barrage' to cover the advance Of
The Americans when they dashed
across the line.
A battalion of infantry and two
troops of negro cavalry under com
mand Of Colonel Herman chased the
Mexican malcontents a quarter of Il
mile across a level plain into the foot
hills back of Nogales, and the accu-
rate sustained fire of the American
civilians Is believed to have been n"
small measure of protection TO the
American troops. 1t was in this cnarg,
hat Captain Hungerford was killed.
Colonel Herman was wounded while
leading the charge.
The fighting began when a Mexican
attempted TO cross In the United
States A. A. Barber, a United States
custom guard, twice ordered the Mexi-
can to halt and when the latter failed
TO comply, Barber drew his pistol hui
lid not fire.
Two Mexican custom guards, accord
ing TO BARRIERS account, resented his
'Iterference with the Mexican and
opened fire.
Their bullets missed Barber but
struck Corporal Barney Lott, in
charge of the American Guards. Lott
was shot through the arm and the
lungs and ran to a telegraph office
nearby on the American side, shouting
for assistance. He fell unconscious
nj the door and was removed 10 the
}ase hospital where he died.