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Show DEAD LEFT UUiED In a Twelve-Day Battle -American Killed and Gold Teeth Taken Cullacan, State of Sinaloa, via No-gales, No-gales, Mex., Ma' IS. News has Just reached here of a twelve-day battle which has left the town of Coraala, in the mountains southeast of Culia-con, Culia-con, desolate. A force of rebels, said to have numbered num-bered 1400, assaulted the town, which has a population of 7,000 and was garrisoned by 400 federals. The fighting fight-ing continued with little Intermission Intermis-sion during the entire period. The defenders wero given no opportunity oppor-tunity to bury their dead, and bodies bod-ies fell from roofs and barricades and I lay in the tropical sun, until finally t the federal commander marched out under a white flag He offered to surrender sur-render the town if the rebelB would allow him to move out with the honors of war and guarantee not to destroy the government records These con-dltlons con-dltlons wero accepted by the rebels. j The reports indicate that this battle was one of the most sanguinary of J the war. i Culiacan is in momentary expectation expecta-tion of attack, Its only hope being i that the news of the armistice will I reach the insurrectos and they will abide by It. This city of 25,000, has In It C00 Americans, many of them driven In from surrounding ranches. Its garrison nuniDers 400 only, some of them volunteers, but it Is equipped with ten machine'' guns and Is, therefore, there-fore, able to put up a stout defense. ! Its seaport, Altate, 45 miles distant, ' I was captured last Friday by the rebels, reb-els, who havo not since permitted steamers to land, thus cutting off all shipments from Guaymas. The rebels havo also captured I Imala, 12 miles south of Cullacan; Lemon, 17 miles north, and San Lorenzo, Lor-enzo, 40 miles south The combined strength of these rebel bands Is probably prob-ably not far from 3,000. Another town captured by the rebels Is Nav-alta, Nav-alta, 19 miles west, the home of the Nelson Jay Rhodes sugar factory. The plant previously had been forced to shut down by the enlistment enlist-ment ot Its workmen In the revolutionary revolu-tionary causo. "At Navalta the--official documents wero burned and tribute trib-ute was levied upon Inhabitants The battle of Tamazula, In which federals annihilated a rebel command com-mand under Henry Clayton, an American, Ameri-can, who was killed, was marked by many atrocities Clayton had prominent prom-inent gold teeth, which a federal soldier sol-dier knocked out with his musket nnd afterwards sold. Mazatlan was still in the hands of the federals on Tuesday. Danger of pestilence Is growing more menacing menac-ing Tho five-day armistice will avail little to abate conditions of warfare in the Interior of the west coast states. Many rebel bands are Independent Inde-pendent of control and operating throughout Sinaloa and brigandage Is regarded as an inevitable consequence of conditions. |