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Show Sew Battle Is Fought and AnotherPending Near City of Chihuahua Chihuahua, Mexico, Mot. 28. (Via El Paso, Nov. 29.) A sharp skirmish, lasting three hours, occurred -y enter day between government troops unde, General Navarro and 300 Insurrection isst at the very gates of this city. Th insurgents are known to have los seven killed, their bodies having been brought here today and laid out at police- headquarters as an object lesson les-son to disturbers of tho peace Tha government loss was one dead ami six wounded. The revolutionists removed re-moved their wounded. While the insurrectionists retreated, they gained their object, which waa to prevent the government from regaining re-gaining control of the Mexico & North, western railway from this point to Minaca. Since the attack on a train a week ago, not a train has run over the line The revolutionists are said, to have had their main force at Santa-bel, Santa-bel, about 3." miles west of here, and ' other forces at Sannndres and Guerrero, Guer-rero, thus controlling the line. Gen. Navarro returned to this city with his force lo await reinforcements reinforce-ments It is reported that the insurrectionists in-surrectionists 'have been rc'-nflorced by bands from Parral and that ir all they number about one thousand. They are said to have fortified a number num-ber of positions along the line. With, this condition fronting him, there li nothing for General Navarro to do until his little army of loo has been at least doubled. It Is said here that reinforcements have been ordered to proceed from the city of Mexico. There Is no excitement ex-citement here, it is admitted that the situation is more serious than bad been reported, but the pacification pacifica-tion of the towns along the railroad is confidently believed to be merely a matter of time. If yesterday's right is prophetic, it Is probable that fighting In the mountains is in prospect. Where Battle Was Fought. General Navarro's army of 400 men left here yesterday In three detachments, detach-ments, a cavalry company and one ot Infantry aud a rear guard of cavalry escorting a number of women and children and wagons loaded with provisions pro-visions and ammunition. The first two detachments lft the city at 8 o'clock In the morning and the rear guard at 7 o'clock. (Continued on Page Seven.) INSURGENTS DRIVEN OFF. (Continued From Page One.) The insurrectionists were concealed conceal-ed In the bills four miles west of the city, under cover of dPches, big boulders, nt.-.ne fences and a little plantation house called Casas Colorado Colo-rado Their presence' was not suspected. sus-pected. They allowed the first two detachments to proceed along the wlndlnz road, which closely follows the railroad, without molestation. It was about 9 o clock when the rear guard came up with the slow moving wagons. The insurgents opened fire at long range from a high hill to the left of the road. The government soldiers retreated, tiring as they wont, around the shoulder of a smaller hill to thojight of the road Still further fur-ther tothe rlsht in a little valley watered wa-tered by a small stream, there Is a long stone fence, and the farm house before mentioned These and th" I banks of ihe rivulet sheltered other insurgents who opened fire In their turn as the soldiers appeared. Those who had tired from the hill to the right of the road, now galloped around to the left and Joined their comrades behind the stone wall and behind other shelter. The soldiers are said by eye-witnesses to have behaved be-haved with exemplary discipline, firing fir-ing with care and precision and tak-Inc tak-Inc cover in dry ditches and behind rocks. The firing continued steadily for three hours. Meanwhile a courier had been dispatched dis-patched to the forres ahead. They returned at about noon, and, at their appearance, the Insurgents retreated in good order, disappearing in a canyon. can-yon. No pursuit was attempted, as a small detachment, properly posted in the narrow defiles of the mountains moun-tains are safe against any but an overwhelming force. Non Combatant See Fight. W. 11 Kraft, who was born In SL Ixinls, but who has Uv-d here most of his life, and Judge .1. M. Ganders viewed the wind-up of the fight from an automobile. Many other persons rushed to the ecene when the firing was heard By the tlmo they arrived their positions on the road were quite safe, the lighting being about a mile to their right. The insurrectionist dead were brought to the city In wagons. Doth sides used steel jacket builds and all cf the wounds Inriictcd were clean. Three American physicians, Ioctors Common, Tye and Shaw, assisted In dressing the wounded at the hospital last night. Besides the dead, the Insurgents lost three taken prisoner and about twenty horses. The exaggerated reports of the present disturbances are not conflnM.l to the Texas border by any means. Reports last night put the loss to the Insurgents at anywhere from 15 to 43. It is of course posslblo that there may have been others Mlled and their bodies not discovered, but there wai certainly nothing lo Justify vjie wild reports brought hack to the city by excited spectators. |