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Show FIFTY FEDERALS KILLED, Rebels Attack Column Marching to Relief of OJInngn. PRESIDIO. Tex., via Mat-fa. May S, Fifty federal soldiers were killed yesterday yes-terday In the battle of El Gato between the rebel forces besieging OJInaga and tho column of government troops under Col. Gordlllo. marching to tho rellof of the beleaguered city. Tho Insurgents wero defeated after a six-hour hattlo and the leader. General Joso da la Cni Sanchez, San-chez, wnM wounded. Tho Insurrectos retreated to Mulalo. an Insurgent stronghold, twenty-five mllos distant. Cordillo entered the city last night with r00 soldiers and two field guns. For nearly near-ly eight weeks tho federal forco under General TLuqjic has boon besieged by San-chea San-chea at OJInaga. |