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S SOLDIERS IN ALL DAY Y BA BATTLE TILE ON BORDER I FIRING t. t OVER RiO GRANDE CRANDE I I I I I Ten Mexicans Known to Have Been Killed and Possibly as Many More Bodies Are Lying in Dense Brush Along River Rivel West lest of Brownsville Tex AMERICAN CAVALRYMAN WOUNDED IN BATTLE Trouble Started When Band Numbering at Least Fort Forty Fir Fired d Across Border Stream at American Ranchman 80 I Soldiers Rushed to Scene i I FEAR ORGANIZED INVASION I Tex Sept 4 I BROWNSVILLE With at nt least ten known Mexican dead clearl and probably as many moro more bodies lying lying- in the dense Tense brush tho battle between ci eighty United States cavalrymen en aided by a force oi of Texas Texas ran rangers and arme armed citizens cItizen and 1 n number of err Mexicans ended at al I 4 this afternoon One American Ameri- Ameri can trooper was wounded t S At 4 o'clock the Mexicans ms withdrew with drew from the south bank of the Rio ilio I Gran Grande e and md laid hill in the brush apparently awaiting another opportunity t to attack the Americans The battle 3 was waged practically the entire day the two forces firing firing- at c each ch other Deross the river at n a point four foul miles west e t of Old Hidalgo Tex The fhe par par- were stretched out in th the tho thoI I I brush h on an a hat battle tIe line two miles long Iong- The Injured American was vas John Sal Sal- private In lii Troop D Third cavalry cavary who sustained a serious wound In the thc left lett hip lie was taken to Mission Texas Captain J C C. McCoy who commanded commande the American forces returned to MIs plon tonight Tie Ife reported ten dea dead i Mexican could be set Seth seui II from rota the thc Texas Texa 3 side and that probably as many more mor Mexicans had been killed In the brush brusi by shots fired tired from the Texas side H Ar r Are Protected When hen the fight en ended led the Americans were In pos possession of three crossings s between Mexico and Texas In the vi vicinity vicinity vi- vi of Mission Hidalgo o Is 61 miles w west st r pf t f Bro Brownsville The Tho Mexicans made no o attempt to cro cross s the river but opened fire early today at an American ranchman on the Die lie Texas side of ot the border and later Inter at nt a n detachment of cavalry cavalry cl ordered to the scene estor day when they chased hack hacic to the Mexican side a t band of Invaders who had crossed the tho rl r Thursday night and looted a n number of ot American Stores tores Tho The Mexicans were said zaid to have haYe be- be ln today's tod encounter r by br unprovoked tiring across tho the river Forty Continued on Page Pago 2 DAY ALL BATTLE ON RIO GRANDE Troops Return irn Fire of Mexicans Who Shoot at American Rancher f of Continued From Page 1 cans were counted In Jn the battle Before Before Be Be- fore tore the firing began the they were constantly con con- con 3 maneuvering through uh the tho theL L brush continuInG until the they had spread up UI and down a tortuous rIverbank riverbank river riverbank bank for 01 a n distance pf pt two miles When the the- Mexicans opened fire tire It was returned b by the thc trouper troopers who wore were roon room Joined by br rangers from front Mission Word also way tray sent pent to Mission and Captain C McCoy and the remainder of ot th the two troops of or ca cavalry went to rc- rc I the tho small detachment d near r Hi HI- HI dalgo so The Tho battle ceased at nt 4 A 1 p. p m m. when the thC Mexicans now about twenty In SP n all seen to LO lea leave e Searchers T ire Are Man Inn lion The trouble today along the lower border was confined to the Mission district and the Brownsville district separated b by sh sixty five ho miles In tho the section surrounding these districts troops of or cavalry ca anI and c companies of oC Infantry In Infantry In- In fantry besides more than fifty automobile automobile auto auto- mobile loads of oC citizens worked unceasIngly unceasingly unceasingly un un- un- un through the day following all aU clues to the whereabouts of ot the theban ban bandit lt gang which terrorized the country eleven miles north of ot here Thursday and murd murdered red two Vo Americans Americans Americans Ameri Ameri- cans J J. J S S. S Smith and Earl Karl Donaldson the latter IAtter a Missourian So far as has been reported to Fort Brown Drown no moro more members o or of the gang which killed Smith and Donaldson have o been accounted for Cor The number stands at nt seven se the last one having been lied early last night This afternoon a band of ot thirteen Mexicans was repotted reported south of or San Bonito Benito A detachment of or cavalry was sent tent out In search and It soon de developed that the Mexicans were headed for tho the Rio Bio Grande Civilian Too roo Fort Brown Drown then notified a detachment detachment detachment detach detach- ment of or Infantry hidden In iii an advantageous advantageous ad position near the Rio Grande Gronde five miles from that tho the band baud probably would come came In that di dl- dl Simultaneously a detachment of ot cavalry ca under L Lieutenant t Critten- Critten left the vicinity vicinity vicin vicin- b Brownsville Drowns ity Str of the hidden n infantrymen The cavalry reached the vicinity c Just In time time- timeto to prevent the Mexicans from tram crossing but hut a civilian spoiled tho the game b by firing a shot The Mexicans thus warned made their escape and hid In the brush At sundown as as' as the and In Infantry were cre being beIng- stationed along along- the hank bank of r the river r to cut ot off crossing of ot the band were seen nn and 1 thirteen 1 are re to bo ho there Fighting was ex expected expected ex- ex momentarily tonight Troops Protect City Headquarters of ot tho lower border patrol will be bo shifted Sunday from Brownsville to Harlingen twentY twentY- twenty six IX miles north o of hero l Col Robert Hobert I L. L Bullard of the Twenty sixth infantry will bo be In command The Twenty Twenty- f sixth Infantry will be t concentrated at ot and will bo be rc replaced laced at ot Fort Brown by the Fourth Infantry due to arrive arrive- Sunday from City The territory t Immediately around vIlle mo will be te guarded b by the Fourth In- In gantry two tiro squadrons of ot the Third cavalry and two batteries es of ot artillery one one a a. howitzer and one ono a rifle bat lIat- tery Sterner Measures U Washington Sept Sopt 4 Border Border raids now approximating guerilla warfare between Mexicans and md American troopers troopers troopers troop troop- ers and nd Texas rangers ha have hae e overshadowed owed tho the internal political situation In Mexico and ond in view of ot American officials of officials or- or have become a n. menace menaco to tho tha already strained relations between tho the two countries Although Major General Funston In charge chargo of troops at tho the border has hns practically all the mobile forces In the United States under his command to today's today's to- to days day's reports of ot firing across the frontier und and encounters with tho the raiders raiders ralden raid raid- ers en led to discussion among lImonS administration administration adminis adminis- officials as as to whether some more mono positive measures should not be talc taken en Arm Army officers recalled that General Taylor In lS 1816 6 took look stern steps to quell quella R. R situation which was almost the same J Killed III tl Wear Uniforms There Thero were no official advices to support support support sup sup- port reports that Mexican troops were ma massing masking along tho the border bonier of or Texas but hut the question of ot protecting the line was regarded rog with growing growing- apprehension Military 1 tar commanders In tn that section deny that an any of or their men inen are among the raiders but It has been reported that some of ot those killed wore uniforms uni uni- forms General s Carranza's reply to the pan- pan American appeal still BUll was lacking lackIng lack lack- Ing InS today and among his supporters here It was predicted It would be a n rejection |