The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-24
TODAY'S BATTLE
 MAY TELL TALE
Rebels Routed With Great Loss
 dt Re|Iano
oROzcO LOST 1000 MEN
Himself Injured by Bursting She'll Desperate Fightlng

Ell Paso, Tex, May 24.-Generai Pasuuale Orozco, today, is making final desperate effort at Jiminez to halt the advance of General Huerta' g Mexican federal army and turn the tide of defeat which yesterday swept his army in confusion from the rebel stronghold at Rellano.
 Orozco. himself, was wounded dur ing the battle by a bursting shell, pieces of which struck him on the leg.
 One of his staff officers, who was near him, was killed. After returning to Cerriltos, the rebel army retreated to Jiminez. Advices from the rebel front received today. in Juarez, are disheartening to the rebel cause.
 The Rellano defeat is admitted but a strict censorship is maintained and few details of losses are permitted to leak out. Hundreds of dead and wounded rebels still are lying in the alhali desert around Rellano, accord ing to federal advicee. today, and 1t ls believed Orozco lost nearly 1000 men, Federal losses exceed 200. If beaten, today, it is believed Orozco will seek refuge with his army in Sonora or scatter his men into small bands and carry on a guerrilla warfare In the mountains.
 
 suburbs of Rellano, the rebel army under General Orozco is retreating to the northward, according to adv1ces received. today. by E. c. Llorente. Mexican consul here.
 Following two crushing defeats within one week, one at Conejos and lthe other, yesterday. at Rellano. the Hebel chieftain is having a difficult ttime keeping his troops together long ienough to organize further resistance Ito the advancing federals.
 : The Mexican consul, today, declar- ed that private advices he: has re- iceived show. that the federal victory at Rellano was sweeping one and that General HueOi is following the meelng rebels ana harassing- them. with all the cavalry under hfD com-l lmand.
 Even the rebels at Juarez do not attempt to conceal the fact that Or fooeo'D troops were routed. They ex-. sruSo tho defeat, however, loA the same ig1Uunde they excuSed the rebel re- verse at Conejos-that the federal ar itillery was too powerful, making 1t for Orozco's men to get Iclose enough to make their numbers kcount.
 Although the first clash at Rellano Fbegan Wednesday afternoon, lasting Eetart until o'clock, Thursday morn ling. It lasted practically all day and |was ended when Orozco ordered the northward of his main body It was still dark Thursday |when Huerta. the federal general, or (dered his artillery to open fire on the |rebel position in the suburbs of Rel |lano. Before daybreak, the federal front was under fire, Huerta's entire |force being engaged. Huerta's arttl- fiery fire was particularly deadly, forc- ling Orof1co's gunners to return to -h- <hoi fc Lat once increased the disadvantage of Ethe rebels while 1t enabled the fed leral riflemen to get in close and pour lin a galling rifle ire.
 Several times Huerta ordered his to charge but each time |the enemy back. Huerta also at ktemptod to turn the eastern rebel lflapk but Orozco massed rif1emen at $thAt point and repulsed the attempt.
 Toward nightfall. Orozco, realizing lthe uselessness of further attempts to defend Rellano against the federal artillery and fearing further decima- ton of his army, ordered a retreat and his force withdrew in good order.
 Advices today say that in a battle at San Ignatio. opposite Fort Han fcock, Tex, the rebel command which evacuated Guadalupe, was defeated Date yesterday by federals under Ma Dor Luiz Sanchez, who was killed dur ing the engagement.
 Following the fight, the rebels over took four Mexican secret service men near the border and. killed two of l1hemL T. E. Sanchez and Del Ray. Both were H Paso Mexicans. Two other secret service. men es- caped by swimming the river and were saved from death by two cus- noms officers. c. R. Tfllman and J. N. rWaffer. who prevented the rebels from hiring.