Federals Retake El Tigre Mines.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 17, 1912:
Mexican Rebels Flee American Camp as Rescuing Troops Enter Without Firing.
ASKED $100,000 RANSOM
Salazar Threatened to Hold American Manager for Its Payment — Decamp with $20,000 Bullion.
    DOUGLAS, Ariz., Sept 16.— El Tigre, one of the wealthiest mining camps in Northern Mexico, was retaken by the Mexican Federals at 4:30 this afternoon, after having been in the hands of the rebel band of Inez Salazar for two days.
    Telephone communication with the camp was restored just as the Federal troops were moving in, when Supt. L. R. Budrow telephoned that the rebels were still in sight, retreating over the hills. Not a shot was fired in the recapture of the town.
    A hundred Federals, chiefly Yaqui Indians, marched into the town, and the small band of rebels who remained to await the reply to a demand for $100,000 ransom from the mine manager took to the hills.
    Although Salazar, the rebel leader, made this demand for $100,000, threatening to destroy the $2,000,000 plant of the El Tigre Company, and to take Supt. Budrow with them as a prisoner, the rebels did not molest any of the company officials. They contented themselves with taking as many bars of bullion as they could carry conveniently, said to be valued at $20,000. When the rebels departed, they left four cannon and 100 horses, although all went well mounted. They also took six of their wounded, who had been placed in the company's hospital in the thirty hours' fighting before the capture of the town.
    Six rebels are known to have been killed, but their loss is thought to have been much greater. The Federal loss was six killed and seventeen wounded. No estimates of the damage done by the looters of the mine can be yet learned.
    The rebels had a large supply of ammunition when they left, which gave color to rumors that 12,000 rounds of ammunition had been smuggled across the line east of here while Salazar was making his way across from Chihuahua.
    So far as known, it is believed that the only Americans remaining in the section of Sonora infested by rebel bands are in well-protected towns.
    In anticipation of an attack on Nacozari, the copper mining town eighty miles south of here, all the women and children in the camp were brought to Douglas to-night.
    Fifteen Mormons, the last of the American residents, reached Douglas late last night from Colonia, Morelos. They had a narrow escape from a band of Gen. Rojas's rebels.