Sonora Federals Routed.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 11, 1913:
Rebels in Pursuit After All-Day Fight, in Which 400 Are Killed.
    NOGALES, Ariz., May. 10.— After an estimated loss of 40 men on both sides in the fighting which lasted from 3 o'clock yesterday morning until nightfall, 2,500 Federals were driven back into Guayamas, the California gulf port, by 8,000 insurgent Sonora State troops. Heavy cannonading reported to-day from Ortiz, the State troop base, indicated that the attack on Guayamas had begun.
    The official insurgent report says that 150 Federal soldiers and 35 officers were captured and ten machine guns abandoned to the State troops. Among the killed was Col. Martinez, chief of the Federal artillery. Chief Bule of the Yaquis also is reported killed. To assist in the actual attack on Guayamas 250 cavalry are on the way from Agua Prieta, opposite Douglas, Ariz. All Sonora border towns celebrated the victory to-day.
    Eight hundred insurgents under Juan Cabral took the aggressive in the centre of the advance. Deployed along the right flank were the Yaqui Indians under Chief Bule, who pressed against the federal position with a hot rifle fire. Five hundred cavalrymen moved down from the right wing under Majors Trujillo and Gutierrez with Gen. Obregon, Commander of the State forces, directing the advance from the centre rear.
    So persistent was the insurgent advance, forming a semi-circle of fire, that soon the Federals began to retreat. The Federal artillery, however, continued to throw shrapnel into the hills and cañons where the rebels were concealed. The Federal formation, seen through high-power glasses, had ten cannon in the centre and cavalry to the right. At the Federal rear were trains with engines ready to assist in the retreat.
    During the fighting an insurgent force under Major Carlos Felix made a flank rear movement, striking the Federal lines at Maytorena, between Ortiz and Guaymas. A train bearing sixty soldiers and three officers was captured and in the fighting sixty Federals were killed and seven privates and four officers were captured.
    The rebels under Col. Benjamin Hill also struck the Federal rear, moving in from points south of Guaymas. These surprises lead to the hasty and disorderly retreat of the Government troops.
    Celebration of Constitutionalist sympathizers at Nogales, Ariz., during last night led to riots when Government sympathizers interfered. The police dispersed the mob after making arrests.

    BROWNSVILLE, Texas, May 10.— A fierce battle is reported to be in progress at Reynosa, sixty miles west of Matamoras. Mexico. Six hundred Constitutionalists are said to have attacked a large force of Federals.

    EL PASO, May 10.— Parral, a rich mining town in the State of Chihuahua, is in the hands of Constitutionalists, the Federal garrison of 1,500 having fled, according to the report of an American miner who arrived here on a motorcycle to-day.
    After leaving Parral the Federal column moved toward Chihuahua, where all State forces were ordered mobilized two weeks ago. Gen. Pancho Villa, who has recruited 400 men in the Guerrera district, is hurrying overland to assist other groups of insurgents in cutting off the retreating Federals.
    Official confirmation of the evacuation of Parral has been admitted by Gen. Antonio Rabago, commander of the northern military zone, with headquarters at Chihuahua. It is explained that the Parral garrison was out of ammunition.
    The capture of Parral places the insurgents in control of the branch line of the Mexican Central Railway running from Jiminez to the mining centre, as well as all of the main line between Chihuahua and Torreon, and much of the Mexico Northwestern Railway west of the State capital. The state capital and Juarez, the border port, are the only points of importance remaining in the hands of the Huerta Government.