Mexican Fight In Streets.

New York Times 100 years ago today, June 21, 1913:
Federals and Rebels in a Long Battle — Outcome Uncertain.
    DOUGLAS, Ariz., June 20.— From behind houses and walls and from roofs the forces of Gen. Ojeda and the Constitutionalist leader, Gen. Obregon, have been battling in the town of Ortiz, forty-five miles north of Guaymas, for two days. Conflicting reports of the combat reached here to-day, but it is believed that when darkness stopped the fighting to-night the advantage lay with the Federals, although they numbered only 4,000, against the 5,000 Constitutionalists under Obregon.
    Federal agents from Guaymas brought the information that Ojeda with his entire effective force took the aggressive and fell on Obregon, who was in line of battle at Ortiz yesterday morning. It was related that the real fighting was renewed at close quarters in the streets to-day and the Federals forced the rebels to retreat toward Hermosillo.
    That information was brought to the Mexican Consul here, but the Constitutionalist junta asserts that it had advices to the reverse effect, and that the State troops had cut off Ojeda's line of retreat toward Guaymas, the Federal base on the Gulf of California.
    F. Rivera, revolutionary Governor of Sinaloa, left Agua Prieta to-day after winning from the Constitutionalist Conference there a promise that the Sonora insurrectos would endeavor to raise an army of 40,000 men for a campaign in Sinaloa. Rivera is on his way to Ortiz, where the Carranazistas are facing the Federal commander, Ojeda, for a decisive battle.
    The Sonora State Government is reported to have issued an order that the rebels shall collect and keep for war purposes all rents accruing from property within the State. This order affects the property owned by foreigners as well as that of Mexicans.