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Show IBM) MED II HILLS ASSAULT -ong Expected Attack Upon Carranza Garrison Garri-son at Agua Prieta Is Launched and United States Territory Showered Show-ered With Bullets. IRST VICTIM IS LOUIS F. TAYLOR rhe Second Is Corporal Jones of the Seventh Infantry, Who Is Shot! Through Thighs by a Carranza Soldier While on Patrol Duty. DOUGLAS, Aria.. Kov. 1. Corporal Cor-poral Jones of company G. Seventh infantry, late tonight wis shot through both thighs by a Carranza soldier, who leaped from hia trench at Affua Prieta, shouting "Viva Carranza, " and fired six shot at Jones, who was on patrol at the boundary near the rear of the customs bouse. The American soldier sol-dier is not seriou-sly wounded. POrGLAS, Arit. Nov. 1. GolctaI ran-'i-co Villa's attark on Agua Prieta shortly afVr coon tooay and con-Dued con-Dued late into the night. The lull in le afternoon fighting cn-ied at 6 'dock this evening, and with carefully aced shots from field pice, rapid rers and rifles Villa kept the Carranza irces in the Mexican town defended by ecral P. Eiias Cailes incessantly in ' tion. Losses on Calles s side up to 10 'clock tonight were eight killed and renty-foiir wounded, according to his sn reports. Villa, according to the same aonrce of formation, had been repulsed with 0 killed in one rush tonight npon the irbed wire entanglements south and ti of the Agua Prieta defenses. One ilia de?erter who came across the line ported he had seen but two killed. ' merican Wounded. On the American side Louis R. Tay-f, Tay-f, a restaurant employee, who was aoDg a throng' of spectators and Mex-in Mex-in women and children refugees at e "United States customs house, was ' funded. A fusillade of bulleta from a i":hine gun on the Villa lines spattered long the crowd, one hitting Taylor in e back as he turned to flee and ralyzinghim, amid the screaming, hys--fical mob of refugees. ; "Villa ceased general firing at 6:45 . clock, the Carranza garrison keeping - a hot fire from all guns for an hour terward. At each lull Villa's gunners d machine gun operators near the bor-1 bor-1 r on the east aide of Affiia Prieta ,'niM plae a few shots, and aain start .: e garrison digging deep into the sup- I of ammunition, which Calles said .tonnted to more than fifteen million : anda. illa Short of Provisions. illa, a.cordin to his own statements - tf:rday and apain today before the ; ,ttle, ia short of provisions and water ; i possesses only a limited supply of i 'munition. This prompted the belief : at tonight's attack was a desperate -ort to capture Agua Prieta at the ' r'iest moment. In the machine fpin fusillade at the x'Jtoms house several bullets struck the Minjz. One plunged tBrough a win-'w, win-'w, near Major George C. Stull, army iplain, who was sitting on the porch. '; 'Other struck a post on the northern ' building, but a foot or two , eve the head of ftecond Lieutenant . ank F. Scowdeu of the Eleventh in-'. in-'. ''ry. The first battalion of the Klev-, Klev-, i-h infantry was on duty at the cus-ii cus-ii House. Major John B. Bennett d his commanders rushed the Mexican -'.men refugees and their children into , American trenches for protection the firing. . Taylor, whose mother, Mrs. M. K. "''' lives at Angeles Camp, Cab, (Continued on Page Four.) lEifi lie 111 VILLI ASSAULT Continued from Pngy One.) was picked up by soldiers and hurried to a field hospital under a railroad culvert. cul-vert. Uis condition tonight is said to be serious. Heavy firing on all sides of Agua Prierta : was renewerl at 1 o'clock this morning:. 1 The Cnrranza garrison lias exploded milled along the front over which Lhey expected the Valla charge to take plar-c. Kirin;: i. very vinlem on the west side i Of Aqua Prieta, indicating Yaui Indians from ."at"o are u I teniiAing lo storm the town from that side. All Viila artillery was in action, pounding the Callcs defenses de-fenses south and wust of the town at 1 : '1 0 o'clock, and Calles replied with guns, rifles and mines. Many bullets began falling fall-ing in Douglas. Ariz. Douglas Citizen Hit. H. N. Jones, letter earner, was shot by Mexican bullets, as he stloud in front of his home. Apparently Villa forces are making a big clash to storm and capture the town. A Calles officer said: "We have kilted half thoae Yatpiis.'' The Van, u is under Generals L'rbalejo and Mendez are said to number more than JOOO. At 2:05 o'clock Calles officials reported Villa attacks had been repulsed with many dead lying all around the Carranza trenches. "We will hold Affua Prieta for years," they added. Panic in Douglas. Bullets are falling thickly on Seventh street in Vtouglas, wtiere Jones was wounded. The people of the neighborhood neighbor-hood were panie-si rirken. Men were afiaid to move their wives and children out. Women and children remained in their homes, wit h bullets pattering on the walls and roots. Heavy firing fioni the Villa lines still continues. Bullets fall in nil parts of this city and a mile from the boundary line. Calles. the general of the Carranza forces, at 2 o'clock reported 15 dead and 75 wounded. Joneff, she k-tter carrier, was wounded by a shot in the shoulder, but the wound is not serious. |