Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — Fought a Duel With Howitzers. [ARTICLE]

Fought a Duel With Howitzers.

Galveston News. A strange duel v*vaa fought in a sparsely settled part of bonora, Mexico, about fifteen years ago. Capt. Villenueva and a lieutenant of a battery of light artillery belonging to one of the posts had some trouble about who was the best shot with the mountain howitzer. They quarreled and agreed to settle it with tho howitzer at 500 yards. They teok neither seconds nor assistant gunners, but •fropi the top of small hillocks they fired explosive shells at one another. The captain was wounded by a fragment of a shell, hut they- lired ten shots before either was disabled, though each was covered with dust. Finally, tbe captain landed a shell under'his adversary's gun, and the explosion so mangled the lieutenant that ho died before they could remove him to tho post.