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Show inning All riKLU Ul Mexxan Troops Deliberately Delib-erately Fired on the INon-Combatants Douglas. Arizona, April 14. Two of the wounded In yesterday's battle died overnight at the Red Cross hospital and two amputations of limbs, necessitated neces-sitated by bullet wounds, were p 1 -formed today Other deaths are expected, ex-pected, as many of the wounded are in a serious condition. In Agua. Prieta eleven dead" have been placed 4n a teJnipor.a!ry morgue, and there are nearly? as many In the morgues on this side of the line. The death list Is rapidly Increasing from tho finding of bodies of federals or Insurrcctos In-surrcctos In out-of-the-way places. Most of the firing yesterday was from behind sheltered places and the searchers today are now and then coming across the body of a soldier who ell unnoticed in the heat of tho battle Americans in Douglas aro especially angered over the fact that American citizens who happened to ho at the Nacozarl railroad station In Apua Prieta, Prie-ta, when the rebel train arrived yesterday, yes-terday, were not given an opportunity to escapo the line of fire They wero caught In a corner by the suddenness of the attack which was begun Immediately Im-mediately with the pouring out of the rebel troopers from the coaches. The Americans sought shelter around the station house and In a nearby ditch, hoisting a flag and callin? out that' they were Amerlcnns and non combatants, combat-ants, but the Mexican garrison in Agua Prieta flanked these positions and. closing In. deliberated poured In a deadly fire on the Americans. It was at this point that A R Dickson wns shot Only the galling fire with which tho rebels raked tho federals at this locality, killing many and causing the others to flee, prevented the scooting of many more Americans The station house, which is American property, was riddled by the federal bullets. Francisco Isabel Irarte. ine Mexican Mexi-can eonbul In Douglas, was called some days ago to tho office of foreign relations in Mexico cltv and his successor, suc-cessor, Jose Lozano Y Castro, formerly for-merly vice-consul at 'Los Angeles, ha arrived and takou charge. The federal force in Agua Prieta which defended the town yesterday consisted" of 104 men When tho rebel train from Nacozarl arrived at Cabul-lonn Cabul-lonn where "Red" Lopoz left his horses under guards, ho arrested the telegraph operators and gavo orders that the lino should not be cut as ho wished to use It himself to keep In communication from Apia Prieta with his horses and guard. While under arrest the telegraph operator op-erator surreptitiously got his hand-on tho telegraph kep and flashed the following fol-lowing message: "Rebels coming in on train." The federals In Agua Prieta thus had 20 minutes' notice of the arrival of the train and they opened fire on the coaches bofore tho rebels had pol out at tho station. oo |