Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1915 — Mexican outlaws and TEXAS RANGERS BATTLE [ARTICLE]

Mexican outlaws and TEXAS RANGERS BATTLE

Several Mexican Bandits Killed and Many Injured In Attack Made On Norias Ranchmen* Harlingen, Texas, Aug. B.—Five American ranchmen were wounded, two of them seriously, and several Mexican outlaws were reported killed or wounded tonight in a fight between Texas rangers and American ranchers and a band of Mexican bandits at Norias ranch, ten miles north of Lyford, in Cameron county, according to a telephone message received here from Norias. The number of casualties among the Mexicans could not be ascertained owing to darkness. The outlaws, estimated to number between 30 and 50, attacked the Noria ranch house shortly before dark. Fourteen ranchmen barricaded themselves in the house and defended it. At 10:30, the report says, the Mexicans returned, unaware that reinforcements had arrived. They again charged the house and were met with a volley of shots from the rangers and several of the Mexicans were killed. The outlaws retreated in the darkness. A special train, left Harlingen shortly before 10 o’clock tonight carrying 35 U. S. soldiers and 12 armed civilians to reinforce the Americans on the Norias ranch. It was announced at Fort Brown that four companies of U. S- infantry were being rushed to Brownsville, from Fort Mclntosh. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Eigelsbach returned to Chicago yesterday after spending a week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eigelsbach. This week we will have a limited amount of fancy Alberta peaches in bushel baskets for canning. Leave your order. HOME GROCERY. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Reeve and daughter, Miss Clara, will leave Wednesday morning for Masonville, N. Y., to visit Clyde Reeve and family. They will be gone for an indefinite length of time. Clyde formerly was a carrier of one of the rural routes out of Remington and resigned last year to move to a farm he had purchased in New York.