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Show HORRORS OF WAR. Retreat of Mexican Soldiers Proved More Fatal Than Battle. Nogales, Arts. A scant LOuO men straggled Into Ouaymas on June 2-V Their tonguts were swollen from thirst, their eyes bulging with dcil rlum, tbelr bodies wounded by cactus thorns and bulleta. leading them waa Ueneral Pedro OJeda. commander of the fiMleral forces in Sonora state. Such was the result of a fortnight's ngbM.ix above Cjajmas. OJeda led all of an army of 3. .'00 men with which he marched out of Guayroa to move aga!nst Hermoslllo, the Insurgent Insur-gent stste capital. The retreat proved more fata! than tbe protracted battle. Scattered alon; the roads between Ortlx and Cuarniaa the victorious state troops overtook Involuntary drertera from the federal rarks. Unable to proceed on a forced tisreh. tbe sa idalfooted soldrs had dropped by the roadsld. Hundrrds hud died of hunrcr and thlrt. Those still alive bc&ged for assistance frcm the eneaiy. Many of them were mule from swollen lips and blind from the desert Sun. They bergt-d for aster w ith motions of the hands. |