El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-20
REBELS SAY OROZCO
GOING TO COAHUILA
Rebel Leader Plans to Take G. P. Diaz
and Operate in That Section For
Time, 1t Is Reported.


Gen. Pascual Orozco jr., leader Of
revolutionary forces in the north, viii
make Ciudad Porffrio Dfaz, opposite
Eagle Pass, Tex, his objective point,
according to information received at
the rebel headquarters here. This will
necessitate Orozco with his rebel army
/ crossing the state of COahuila, where
federal forces are few. A small fed
eral garrison protects POrfirio Diaz.
After moving southwest along the
Rio Grande from Ojinaga, where the
rebel advance came to grief in the re-
cent engagement, Orozco is reported to
have mobolized an army of 1900 men.
This represents 300 men of Orozco's
personal guard 800 under Col Felix
Terrazas and 900 under Col Marceio
Caraveo. With this force Orozco has
crossed below O5inaga, pursuing a
course to the east, and is reported to
be at the Coahuila state line. He has
a clear road with the main federal
army of the north in the states OF
chihuahua and Sonora to the west
Absolute enlargement is said to ex-
list between OrozcO and his followers
and the rebels of the Socialistic faction
operating in Sonora below the Arizona
frontier. Orozco, 1t was said, intends
to conduct his own revolution without
the assistance of the socalled Social
istic element
Huerta Goes
The sudden departure Of Gen
Huerta and troops from Juarez is
taken by some to mean that he is
headed for Coahuila, having learned
that Orozco is not coming back to-
wards Juarez, but that the rebel bands
sent by Orozco to San Ignacio and
other points east of and near Juarez.
was merely a ruse to hold the fed
erals in juarez and give Orozco a
chance to escape to the east.
About 500 federal troops with four
batteries Of light and heavy artillery
- A. T. - ne
from Juarez for the southwest. The
trains were dispatched in secrecy and
il. is not known if their destination is
the City OF Chihuahua, the state OF
Coahuila, or if a movement is to be
projected into Sonora, where the So
cialist rebels are operating below the
Arizona border. The troops left over
the Mexico North Western road.
Gen sVictoriano Huerta, commander
of forces in the north and Gen. Joaquin
companied the expedition. A regiment
of 500 infantry and a battery of heavy
artillery were left to defend Juarez
FOrtifying Juarez.
Fortifications of JuareZ was begun
Thursday with the departure of the
main body Of federal troops under Gen
Huerta- Trenches are being dug to the
west along the route near the river
which Madero's insurrectos took in at
lacking .JuareZ. A battery of four
Canet cannon, the only artillery left
in Juarez, is being mounted on hill
to the southwest Of town and COM
handing the dangerous approach
Only about 500 infantry are left to
protect JuareZ. They consist of the
18th battalion, numbering ESQ But $50
men of the 18th are stationed at Villa
Ahumada, to which point on the Mex
lean Central the work trains have
proceeded from JuareZ. Col Man
sano, commander Of the 18th, becomes
military chief of Juarez with the de-
parture of Gems. Huerta and Teller.
Central Work Stops.
Work of rebuilding the wrecked
Mexican Central line has stopped and
there seems to be much mystery con-
corning the delay in rebuilding this
line. Shortage of steel and ties is
said to have been the reason for the
cessation of the work, although there
was plenty OF steel in the yards when
the work train ceased making the
trip south from Juarez.