Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-12-01 | Page 8 | Five Americans Are Wounded

FIVE AMERICANS ARE WOUNDED Naco. Ariz , Nov 30. Five more persons were added to the casualties i Oil MIC lUDCnCUl SJUC hi mc mcftc ui Naco Sonorn, today. Private Caine of B troop. Ninth United States cav-airy. cav-airy. was shot in tho head and probably prob-ably fatally wounded Four Mexican Mexi-can children were wounded, one seriously. se-riously. T his makes a to?aJ of forty-one persons per-sons injured on the American side by stray bullets from the Mayiorena-'i)la Mayiorena-'i)la besieging forces and General Hill's Carranza troops entrenched In Naco. Of these, four are dead, one Is blind and two are reported to be near death The siege of the Mexican town Is being spasmodically continued. May-toiena's May-toiena's men are sapping the ground before Hill's trenches and gradually drawing nearer Ono shell today entered the United States customs house, which was vacated va-cated two weeks ago because of the danger from stray bullets. The shell is said by artillerists to have been timed for explosion at 600 meters, inditailng that to be the distance between the two lines of trenches Although Maytorena is evidently i.iient on continuing the siege, it Is reported that he will make no as-: as-: sault upon the town until reinforcements reinforce-ments and sufficient officers to prop-I prop-I crly command his men arrive.