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Show FIGHTING AT NOGALES Battle Begins at Daybreak; Day-break; Seventeen of Garrison Killed Nogares, Ariz., Mar. 13. Firing began be-gan at daybreak on three Bides of the Mexican town of Nogales. The Sonora 6tate troops used grenades In their attack. Numerous bullets crossed the international in-ternational boundary during the early hours of the da to the residence district. dis-trict. About 8 o'clock the firing became be-came desultory. Colonel Kosterlltzky sent for Dr A L. Gustetter to care for the wounded. Seventy-four Chinamen, under guard ftom the Immigration office, have been removed to the American side for safety Seventeen Killed. At 8:30 o'clock Dr Gustetter. who had crosses the International lino to attend the wonnded, reported that seventeen of the defenders had been kllld and eleven hurt. At this time th firing became scattering and was mostly centered upon the left flank The United States troops patrolling the border unllmbered two machine guns on Tltcomb bill, commanding the two towns At the outbreak of the battle Cap- tain G C Smith. In charge of the Fifth United States cavalry patrol here, deployed his men along the border bor-der and sent word to Fort Huachuca that the fight had opened. The warning, however, had been anticipated, and before daybreak a I train bearing three additional troops of cavalry and a machine gun platoon, pla-toon, under command of Major Tate, I was on the way from the fort to tbe ' scene of hostilities The American troopers guarded the border to prevent either party cro6s- I lng the line, and warned residents of the American town to keep inside their houses to avoid stray bullets, which fell frequently in the residence I district. Reinforcements from Fort Huach-! Huach-! uca brought the border patrol up to about 400 men. Lieutenant Colonel j Tate deployed his men so as to keep spectators from the danger zone. In the earlv fighting Tax Collector ! Nunez of Agua Prleta, was wounded in the arm while on the American 1 side Bullets pierced the walls of several 'houses in Nogales. Ariz., damaclnc furniture A lull in the firing was taken to In. dlcate that the first assault of the constitutionalists had hn repulsed A dilatory fire continued, the federals retaining tbelr positions In the outlying outly-ing houses of the town. Re-lnforcements Expected C. I- Montague of Cananea, who acted as peace envov in yesterday's negotiations, returned to Nogales to-daj to-daj and reported that General Obre-gon Obre-gon s force number 1000 and that re-Inlorcemonts re-Inlorcemonts were expected today It was stated that General OJeda and his federals could not arrive from Agua Prieta before nightfall and the garrison garri-son set Itself the task of holding out until that time United States Tonsul Slmpich drove nn automobile carrying Red Cross Mans and filled with nurses through a suower of bullets to the aid of the wounded About 10 o'clock the Constitutionalists Constitutional-ists launched a movement slraultane-ouslv slraultane-ouslv from the east and west the de-rected de-rected a lholy fire against the defenders de-fenders from three directions. Appeal for Red Cross Funds Consul Slmpich telegraphed an ap-peal ap-peal for Red Cross funds to the state Ic-epartment at Washington Many automobiles of Nogales residents I were put In commission brmglni; wounded to the hospitals here Desultory firing continued until noon, with' the defenders holding their positions. Kosterlltzky at noon expressed of an SSSSUll directly from the front, 'which would greatly endanger residents resi-dents on the Arizona side and also would be most difficult to meet by I tbe defenders Coloi I Tate refused a request from the federal defenders to buy bread on tbe Atnrlcan side. It was said on direct authority. Stray Bullets Strike Americans. While in her home here Mrs Ada M. Gibson was struck in the heel 0 ,,e m a stray bullet. V small Mexican hov were seriously wounded while on the American Bide. Red Cross workers returning from the field reported that General Ore gon declared that the mornlnrz fight preliminary to find out the de-fend, de-fend, era condition will hit hard soon, said the rebel commander Sixteen in Hospital. Sixteen wounded at noon were be-inu- treated in a Nogales hospital, while the volunteer American nurses wen- removing others to hospitals. A moving picture machine was a feature of the day's fighting |