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Show READY TO DECAMP. Federals at Nogales Awaiting Approach of the Rebels. By Associated Press- NOGALES. Sonora. Mexico. May 13. Five hundred insurrectos. part of Juan Cabral's force, were seen opposite Santa Cruz, six miles cast of here, today, by a detachment of the Sixth United States cuvalary. marching In this direction. Federal Fed-eral troops tonight are busily engaged In throwing up defenses, hut a train of empty cars has been run In on a siding near llio troops for the purpose, it Is believed, of carrying thc federals south toward Hermosillo In thc event the rebels appear In force. Thc country east of Nogales flanks the town with a row of high,' rough hills, from which the rebels can pour in a hall of bullets directly on thc federal defenders. de-fenders. The capture of Nogales would give thc rebels complete control of the border west of El Paso, this being the last port of ontry remaining In the hands of the federal government. Colonel Charles M. O'Connor, commanding com-manding tho Sixth United States cavalry, cav-alry, arrived in Nogales, Ariz., tonight. Troops E. F, G and IT of his regiment are now patrolling the American side of tho line and three more troops are at Fort I-Iuachuca within easy reach if a battle opens. Cash to the amounL of ?l.ono,Ono Mexican Mexi-can was taken across the line today for safe keeping. Most, of Ibis came from the. vaults of the. Banco de Sonora. a branch of thc State Bank of Sonora. at Hermosillo. Tho former federal officials of Cananea arrived here at 10 o'clock tonight. Another An-other train bearing the troops which evacuated Cananea will probably arrive before morning. Willi thplr arrival tin; federal garrison here will be swelled to about 600 men. under command of Brigadier Briga-dier Gennil Pedro Ojeda, who has been one of the most succensful of the federal commanders in Konora. All I rain service on I he Sonora railroad rail-road running south from hero to Hermosillo Hermo-sillo and Oiiaymas and connej'tlng with the Southern Pacific to MazntJan, has bc:-n abandoned as a result of a warning warn-ing from the rebels. |