The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-09-30
TROOPS MUT|NY
BREAK LOOSE ON !
MEXICAN BORDER
Garrison al Jusrcx RevoIts and Take
Control Of Town--Prisonera
Released and Outbreak OF
Lootlng Follows.
REPORT FIVE KILLED
AND TWENTY WOUNDED
Early AdvIees to v. S. immigration
Agents Say Federal Forces
Regain controI-RebeIs NJ
Driven 10 Foothills. -


Jaurez, Mexico. Sept. 30.-A battle
between rebel soldiers and federal.
lists ragged on the outskirts of this
city today following the revolt OF
one battalion and part OF another.
Five hundred loyalists and APP
proximately three hundred mutineers
took part IN the affray. which was
started by q drunken captain.
The rebels were reported slowly
dropping back. with the regulars
following closely.
Three are reported TO have bees
killed. Fifteen wounded have been
brought into the city. Eighteen
prisoners have also been brought in
from the firing line. making total
of flfty-eight persons held in the
local jail as result OF the mutiny.
The revolt Is said to have started
when $50 soldiers OF the ffSrd bat
TALON. led by drunken captain
named valyerde. marched on tho
local Jail.
The troops released the prisoners.
who joined their ranks together
with some members of the Fifteenth
battalion. They then locked the
iailers In the cells, and marched on
tho armory, which Is reported to
have capitulated Immediately.
Attack Custom House.
The mutineers then attacked The
customs house. which they are be.
lieved to have intended to loot.
After a spirited battle with guards
and other members of the garrison,
they were driven off.
General ]. j. Mendez, who fled To
Ell Paso, Texas, when the revolt
started, returned. and with four
hundred loyal troops pursued Val
verde and his followers into the
foothills to the south. The battle
followed
The rebels, who have machine
guns. are said to be putting up q
stiff resistance to Mendez.
Call II Drunken Riot.
A detail OF troops has left villa
Ahumada to intercept the rebel
troops in their slow retreat, accord.
ing to word here.
Although it was believed by many
that the uprising was part of a
revolutionary movement under the
leadership of General Ferdinand
Murguia that has been rumored for
some time, officials declared that 1t
was merely drunken riot"
American immigration authorities
reopened the international bridge at
$3.50 o'clock.
General Mendez, who explained
that his trip to El Paso was for the
purpose of reporting the revolt to
Mexico City, gave the United Press
lis version of how it started.
'At 2 o'clock this morning, was
awakened by a telephone call from
officers who said the jail guard was
showing signs of trouble" Mendez
declared.
81 telephoned the barracks of the
143rd battalion and ordered twenty
men to relieve the jail detail. Cap.
tain Valverde, in command of the
relief detail. on the way to the Jail
persuaded the men to revolt.
AT the Jail they persuaded the
other detail to join them.
Prisoners were released and Off.
GERS made prisoners and the fight
ing started Revolutionists awaited
until the last of Americans had de-
serted the jazz cabarets and bars to
return to Ell Paso. The internation-
al bridge closed at 1890 a. m. nor.
mally.
The revolt came with a sudden
ness that dazed both Mexican and
American authorities.
"The first thing the mutineers did
was to start looting saloons Of tie.
quilla. They fired through doors
and windows of empty stores and
saloons.
"Among the prisoners released
from the Jail were twelve Ameri-
cans"