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Show REBELS CONTINUE FIGHTING. States of Slnaloa and Sonora Are the Scenes of Disorder. NOGALEES, Tex., May 2. Whatever What-ever the prospects of peace at El Paso and Juarez, there are no peaceful signs along the western coast of 'Mexico. 'Mexi-co. News that dribbled Into Nogales today from various quarters of tho states of Sinaloa and Sonora tell of scones of disorder and almost continuous continu-ous lighting. There were roports of skirmishes and fights with attendant l loss of life from several points It is apparent that sedition and strife In these states is rapidly Increasing, and tonight Americans In this city familiar fa-miliar with the conditions across the border regard tho situation as very grave Not onlr is the political welfare wel-fare of the weste'rn Mexican statos af-focted. af-focted. but American interests are Involved In-volved and arc in danger. Even tho lives of Americans, mlthcrto held sacred hy federals and rebels, arc no longer regarded as safo In the Interior of Mexico. Prominent rallrnad officials who rrached Nogales from Mexico today brought with them the warning from the robots to remove all their families as quickly as possible Into the United States, and to advise all of their American Amer-ican friends to do likewise. Coupled with these warnings was the threat of the insurrectos that they Intended before the end of the week to luunch attacks against all the Mexican border bor-der towns. Many American families are coming across tho border. Word came from the Magdalonn district, dis-trict, southeast of Nogales, of tho complete com-plete wiping out of a body of thirty federals under Luis Estralla by a band of rebels in the vicinity of Octates. Reports of heavy fighting in the noUhhorhood of La" Colorado, south- i east of HcrnioBlIlo, capital of Sonora, , were brought across the border today. Tho robelB claim to have recaptured La Colorado, which has previously been the scene of bitter fighting during dur-ing the present rebellion . Tho situation along the Southern Pn-clllc Pn-clllc lines in Mexico, which parallel the western coast for many hundreds of miles to tho southward, Is grave. Trains aro running on these lines only as far south as Navojea, a hundred miles south of Guaymas, and Pullman cars are being nin only as far as the latter placo All railroad connections south from Navojea are broken, and there Is no way of reaching the many important ports that lino the coast All wlro communication is Interrupted to the southward, and onlv the smallest scraps of Information concerning the real situation are obtainable. |