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Show INSURGENT BAND ANNIHILATED Eighty Inaurrectoa Under Leadership ef American Attack Five Hundred Mexican Regulars Near Mexlcall. Meilcali, Mexico. General Stanley Williams hurled his little battalion of rebels against Colonel Miguel Mayot'B 600 Mexican regulars " tne meB five mllee south of Mexlcall on S.itur-day. S.itur-day. Eighty inaurrectoa went Into the fight; twenty returned from the battlefield. bat-tlefield. Williams himself was futaUy wounded, wound-ed, being carried Into Uie custom house here with bis head torn by a fragment from an exploding ahell, where he died Sunday. With a half ilorrn fugitives o' h fleeing command be was overtaken by a federal ahell tlmt lit ih" of them nnd sent up a geysrr of flame nnd smoke and fragments of human bodies. His wagon trains wens rap-tured rap-tured with nearly nil of the. stores and I livestotk which he took In his raid on Friday on American ranchers. Survivors straggling Into Mexlcall declare that the fedi'tala took r.o prla oners. AH thoto urn killed by the fire of the I rlc. al rllles,, machine pun and artillery, were. It is believed, slaughtered mercilessly with bayonets In the lunds of federal soldlrs. |
