Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — BLOODY FACTIONAL WAR. [ARTICLE]

BLOODY FACTIONAL WAR.

Pitched Battle in a Texas Town—Six Dead Counted from One Window. A telegram from Ysleta, Tex., on the llth, says a pitched battle is in progress there between two local factions, both of which claim control of the town government. They held an election in April and each side claimed the election. Both sets of officials were sworn in, and the town has had two governments ever since. One party, led by an intelligent Mexican, was called the “People’s party,” and the other was led by a Hebrew, named Gaal, and called the “Republican party.” Several fights have taken place, and it has been expected the trouble Would culminate in ftbloody conflict. A later dispatch says the fighting has ceased, but both sides hold their grounds and it is impossible for any one to venture out to discover the number of dead and wonnded. The telegraph operator wires that he can count six dead bodies from his window.