Nine Fighting Eighty to Death

Nº 224

AHSRE L-E-953 F. 413

The Arizona Gazette, Phoenix, Arizona

17 de marzo de 1911

Nine Fighting Eighty to Death

Mexican Federal Force Is Bombarding Very Small Group of Rebels.

SAN DIEGO, march 17. Barricaded in an adobe house in the little hamlet of Tecate, nine insurrectos are being bombarded today by eighty Mexican federals who attacked the place at daylight.

The rebels were surprised but Rodriguez, the leader, with fourteen of his thirty one men, succeeded in breaking through the cordon and escaping.

Two rebels have been killed, six wounded and the remainder of the little band is fighting to the death.

Two federals have been killed.

Rodríguez with his followers succeeded in joining another band of insurrectos at San Ysidro where they are awaiting attack by another party of federals.