Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — AMERICANS AS WAR PRISONERS [ARTICLE]

AMERICANS AS WAR PRISONERS

Sixteen Are in Durance at Ca* sas Grandes, Mexico. 1,000 SLAIN IN LONS BATTLE Death Lists in Vicinity of Ures Are Unusually Large for Both Federate and Insurrectos—General Uque Holds Town. El Paso, Tex, March 31. —The Americans held sts prisoners of war at Casas Grandes, Mex., since March 6 are: Sidney Severs, New York; Joe Murray, New York; F. G. Fowler, Fort Worth, Tex.; Alfred Franke. Santa Anna, Cal,; James H. Jones, Duluth, Minn.; Floyd O. Martin, Denver, Colo.; B. O. Hemerway, Fort Wayne, Ind ; C C. Carlton, Williams, Ariz.; Ferdinand Lieber, of Germany; Fred Oberbuscher, Germany; J W. Graham, Oklahoma City; R. P. Lee, McKitrick, Cal.; John Harrison, Del Rio, Tex.; C. P Rice, San Francisco; William Current Blicek, Okla.; Bruce Robert Jacoby, 2016 North Central avenue. Minneapolis. Ore thousand rebels and federal? have been killed in a battle Which has waged in the vicinity of, Ures since last Monday, according to report. San Rafael, near Ures, was completely destroyed by fire, which started when a big flour mill was dynamited Many women and children are said to have been among the victims of a battle which was fought while the town was burning. There is a battle in progress at Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, in which the federals are getting the worst of it There is also fighting at Ojinaga, General Uque and his federals have been standing a siege for two weeks and are still holding the town, surrounded by Jose De La Cruz Sanchez and 800 insurrectos. AMERICAN IS PRISONER Mexicans Take Him in Chains to Hermosillo on Unknown Charge. Nogales, Ariz., March 31.—Arrested on the Mexican side of the line, Abraham Saleebey, an American citizen and merchant of this city, was taken in chains to Hermosillo. American Consul Dye is said to have been assured by Mexican officials that the American would be left in Nogales. Sonora. The specific charge agairst Saleebey is not known, but it is said a woman heard him plotting With insurrectos to supply arms to the rebels.