Rebels Lose Long Battle.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 12, 1913:
Federals Drive Them from Parral Back to the Hills.
    EL PASO, Texas, March, 11.— Desperate fighting in an attack on Parral, in the State of Chihuahua, entailing a huge loss of life in a 50-hour battle, was reported today. Fifteen hundred Constitutionalistas, rebelling against Huerta's National Government, were driven back by almost an equal number of Federal regulars, and Parral, a centre of American mining and industrial interests, was damaged greatly by bombardment and street fighting, in which the townspeople engaged.
    The ex-insurrecto troops who rebelled against the Huerta Government and left Parral last week after mobilizing and recruiting at Santa Barbara nearby, returned on March 5 to retake the city. One thousand Federals from Chihuahua City had reinforced the 200 regulars in Parral.
    On the afternoon of March 5, the insurgents made an attack and the battle was continued until the evening of March 7. On the morning of the last day the rebels took the fortified hills surrounding the city, driving the Federals to cover in the town.
    Col. Mercado, the garrison commander, and Col. Castro, who had brought the reinforcements from the State capital, called for volunteers to retake the outlying positions. Five hundred men responded. After charges and almost hand-to-hand fighting, they drove the insurgents from the hills.
    Then the Constitutionalistas concentrated their fire on the southern section of the town, driving the city officials from their houses and causing great loss of life to the residents. At night the insurgents withdrew unpursued.
    In the fighting mobs of townsfolk rioted burning the market and attacking the banks. Volleys from the soldiers soon quieted the internal disturbances.

    NOGALES. Ariz., March 11.— A formal warning against endangering American lives was made to-day by Consul Frederick Simpich to both Gen. Obregon, commanding the Sonora insurgents, and Col. Kosterlitsky, in charge of the Federal garrison in Nogales, Sonora. The American Consul to the Mexican border town journeyed twenty miles south to deliver personally the message to the constitutionalist chief.
    The rebels are prepared to move against Nogales with almost 1,000 men and several machine guns, Consul Simpich reported on returning here tonight. The State troops are marching north with intentions or taking positions by sunrise.
    A deserter from the State troops advancing against Nogales, Sonora, arrived here to-day and reported that the rebels were only twenty miles away and were advancing rapidly, considering the condition of the railway. He said the force consisted of almost 1,000 men, with horses and building material for the railway.
    The entire Federal force in Agua Prieta was put to work this afternoon loading arms and ammunition into box cars. The United States Customs Collector said if Gen. Ojeda's design was to ship his munitions into the United States in bond to prevent their capture by rebels it could be done only by permission of the Government in Washington.
    A mutiny of the Yaqui Indians of the Federal garrison is threatened.

    LAREDO, Texas, March 11.— Of thirty Federal cavalrymen who attacked 200 Carranzistas on the outskirts of Lampazos, seventy miles south of the border, late yesterday, thirteen were killed, ten were wounded, and four taken prisoners were put to death, according to a telegram received by United States Consul Garrett in Nuevo Laredo. It was the third Federal defeat in Lampazos in as many days.