Bisbee Daily Review

HAPPENINGS AFTER THE FIGHT AND COMMENT ON EVENTS

(Douglas International, Thursday.)

Without a pass from the commanding officers on both sides of the boundary it was still impossible to cross the international line this morning.

This meant that there was no news from across the line, for those passes were few and far between, and are not being extended to any press representatives.

This means that no accurate estimate can be formed of the dead or wounded, how the former are being disposed of and the latter cared for or what is being done in any direction. It can only be said that the casualties which resulted from the fighting in and about the town will never be known, except as reported to his government by Colonel Diaz.

This report will be given out by the governor of Sonora, it is expected, just as have been the accounts of other engagements. The general belief is that the losses were very heavy on both sides.

The report of yesterday that the Insurrectos fled west is not now generally believed.

The theory is that they are completely scattered and the sight of so many of them in and about Douglas gives credence to this.

If they had gone west they must have met Cabral and warned him of the disaster that had overtaken them.

This was not done.

Rumors Persistent.

Once more the war situation in Douglas has returned to the state of rumor and then more rumors.

Some of these can be run down and disproved, others it is impossible to confirm or deny, and only a few can be made actual facts.

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overtaken him and a skirmish followed.

Orozco and his force were reported at Cenizas Springs. They were also reported below San Bernardino, the same force, and 2000 strong, but a young man in from the ranch at noon stated that they had not been seen.

Two others claimed to have seen them, but further advices to the ranch bore out the young Mexican who came in this morning and declared them not there.

Later in the afternoon the rumor spread that Madero was approaching.

Nothing to confirm this was found, but advices from El Paso placed him at 35 miles south of Juarez.

The return of 'White Light Joe' is probably the next report that will be heard.

The Nacozari railroad freight depot was burned at an early hour, with five cars of freight, which were standing near the building.

Just how the building was fired is not known, but there are two theories for its occurrence.

One is that it was fired by some Insurrecto who crossed the line for that purpose and who had remained under the building after the fighting, and the other is that some of the federals in Agua Prieta had taken their station at the depot and the fire was started from a cigarette.

There is no truth in the story that bodies were burned in the building, says those who have visited the depot grounds since the fire.

J. S. Douglas was aroused at 4 o'clock this morning and informed that the Nacozari depot was on fire.

He at once called Henry Elvy and his automobile and hurried to Colonel Shunt, who is yet in command of the United States troops at the garrison at the ball park. Mr. Douglas was delayed minutes before he could see Colonel Shunt. One of the sergeants insisted that there was a skirmish there. It is likely the colonel should not there was a skirmish there. Cabral called "before reveille this morning would have had to have gone there. Finally, after seeing the colonel and reporting the fire and requesting that a force be sent to the American Packard ranch, twenty-four miles to obtain water. He was seen to turn the car to the American custom house. Mr. Douglas went south. Federal scouts may have the car to the American custom house and declared that along the way on the border from the ball park to the American custom house not a single American soldier was encountered on patrol.

This is confirmed, is authentic. At noon it was all that could be confirmed.

The building was entirely consumed by fire, as it was not possible for the Douglas Fire department to reach the scene. The object of Mr. Douglas in calling on Colonel Shunt was to get him to arrange with the commander of the Mexican troops for the passage of the Douglas Fire department to the Nacozari depot in Agua Prieta.

Besides the burning of the depot in Agua Prieta two bridges were burned by insurrectos in the vicinity of Cabullona station.

One of these bridges was at kilometer 13 and the other at Cabullona station.

Neither was of any considerable length and it was expected that they would be repaired today in time for the train to pass south at the regular time this afternoon.

Left Ammunition.

The fact that this morning there were piled up great quantities of ammunition in boxes which had not been opened and in cartridge belts which had been gathered from the battlefield is taken as an evidence that the surrender or evacuation of the town was not entirely due to the scarcity of ammunition.

But there is one feature of the ammunition troubles that must have confronted the insurrectos, both here and at other battles in Sonora, and that is the great variety of guns carried. It is known that all ammunition is made for a certain gun and that it is rare that cartridges manufactured for one gun are useful in any other make of gun.

Shunt's Order Protected Douglas.

While there were a number struck by bullets in Douglas yesterday which were fired across the line it must be concluded that the order sent to Colonel Diaz by the hand of Chas. McKean, resulted in much caution on the part of the federals in directing their fire so that it would not fall into Douglas. McKean, accompanied by James T. Williams, Jr., of Tucson delivered the order from Colonel Shunt at Sulphur, four miles south of Agua Prieta on Sunday morning.

Colonels Diaz, Barron and Chiapas all said this morning that when this order was received it caused them to change their entire battle arrangement.

At that time the federals were already lined up for the advance on the town from due south, which would have been a leaden hail into Douglas.

After the order had been delivered by McKean, who was the official messenger of Colonel Shunt, Colonel Diaz made inquiry as to the location of the city, the smelter and other points where lives might be endangered.

Colonel Diaz stated this morning that he was very sorry to learn that people had been wounded in Douglas, that he had done everything possible to prevent federal bullets reaching the American side of the line, and that this precaution had put him at a disadvantage in the work of capturing the city.

Federal Commanders.

Colonel Reynaldo Diaz is in command of the federal forces now at Agua Prieta, estimated by him to be about 500 men.

Colonel Diaz was sent to Sonora one month ago from