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Show ISPEBATB FIOHT TB I REPORTED IK BOKOKA pOUGLAS.. Aria., May li Report bm the '.towns of Pitiquito and- Cs-rea, Cs-rea, in the atata of Sonora, Mexico, ve been received here tellin of dee-rate dee-rate fighting there yesterday and the .V before between Mexican federal op nnd the inanrreetos, 300 on each le. The federal uaed a machine gun and feated the rebels ia both eitiea after e hottest kind of fighting. The gov-nment gov-nment troops finally occupied both wna, which the rebel had previously Id, the latter retreating, leaving cntv dead and manv wounded. Rebel under Juan Cadoza. Praneieeo Rerna and Tina.jer, captured both Pitiquito and C'aborra a few days ago witaoqt much oppoaitioa. The town bv a combined population of 5000. The rebel force, nil mounted, included American, Mexicana and Pnpago Indiana. In-diana. - - - - Major Garros, commanding the federals, fed-erals, and Diego Moleno, commanding toe Naciconale. SO0 in all, with one machine gun, advanced against Pitiquito Piti-quito Saturday. The rebels awaited the atack in the intrenehmenta they had throwa np. . The federal machine guns swept the crest of the trencbra and the troop advanced in detachments with the ma- -ki.. m.M im Cmh TL. ak 1 - 1 all day. Saturday evening the rebels begaa withdrawing to Caborea. leaving the dead and wouaded in th tranche. Th federals followed and attacked at dawn yesterday. The rebels resisted desperately, desper-ately, but had not time to prepare barricades bar-ricades to protect them from the fire of the machine gun nnd were again compelled te fall back, retreating ia the direction- of Potto Verde, on the Arizona border, leaving twenty dead and many wounded. |