New York Times 100 years ago today, April 9, 1913:
Five Men of United States Army Wounded on This Side of the Line.
NACO, Arizona, April 8.— Meeting the advancing State troops nearly a mile below Naco, Sonora, Gen. Ojeda's Federals fought for three hours to-day. Bullets entered the Arizona town of Naco, wounding four negro troopers of the Ninth Cavalry border patrol and an army teamster. One of the wounded United States soldiers may die. Shortly after 8 o'clock the Federals retired to the town. They were not pursued by the Constitutionalistas.
The fight was opened at 5:20 o'clock by Ojeda, whose 300 Federals met the advance of almost 2,000 State troops with volleys from eight machine guns and two field pieces. Operating two of the Federal pieces were two American negroes, deserters from the Ninth Cavalry.
The army medical corps, assisted by local physicians, has established a temporary hospital here. Fourteen wounded stragglers from both sides have crossed the line to be treated. Estimates of those killed in the battle place the total at sixty-five for the first three hours of fighting.
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