Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-26
Defeated General SUICIDES
MANY GOVERNMENT OFFICERS
WERE KILLED AND CAPTURED
by THE REBELS.
oROZC0 moves TO south
vi, iorious Rcyolutionlsts Press After
thc Fleeing Army and Another
isattIe Expected at Torrcon.

MENICO CITY, March 25.-Appar-
emily reliable messages received by
III impartial report complete feder-
al defeat at JimineZ. General Con
zales Salas, commander-in-chier oi
the federal army, is reported wound
ed other officers were killed and ~
officers taken prisoners to Chihuahua
together with many prlvates, Orozco
with 1874 carloads of rebel soldiers Is
icported moving toward Torreon. AL
federal troops are said to have already
Withdrawn to that point.
News of the terrible defeat Of the
federal army, followed by the suicide
of its commando in-chief General
Gonzales Salas, and retreat to Tor
reon of the broken aSmy of the gov
ernment Is contained in telegram
whose Substance will be published by
El impartial tomorrow as authentic
The federal flight toward Torreon be-
gan Sunday afternoon. General Pas-
eual Orozco with his victorious army
IS said to be close on the heels OF the
retrcating federals. Generals Banquet
and Telles, two of the most prominent
of President Madero's commanders IN
past campaigns, are among the wound
ed, while Major Nicolas Martinez
chief of staff of Gonzales Sallas, and
several other officers are dead.
Fifty other officers and many prls-
oners were sent to Chihuahua under
i'm nj
rebel army Immediately prepared to
follow the federals
Four Days of Fighting.
There seems little douot of the cor
rectness Of the main points of Ei I'M
parcials telegram which have beel
confirmed by messages received by thr
National railways Saturday.
The messages of FL impartial were
interrupted by the government cen
sorship. Only the alleged suicide oil
the commander-in chief, General Con
zales Callas, appears open to doubt
The rebel victory followed four days
of almost continuous fighting in which
the early advantage seemed to be with
the government army which pressed
through the outpost of Orozco's forces
and compelled them to abandon the
town of Escalon on the first resist
ance offered. On Saturday the rebelf
fell back toward Corralitos, which was
selected as field of real battle. Here
the fight was resumed Sunday ano
continued with considerable energy
until the rebels executed the maneuvei
which turned the tide against the
federals.
Under General Campo, 500 revolu'
tionists were sent by circuitous
route some miles south from Corral
tos with instructions to fall in behind
the troop trains of the federal army
which were still bringing up the
forces.
Dynamite Was Effective.
In the meanwhile locomotive
loaded with dynamite was prepared In
the rebel camp. A volunteer engineer
piloted the engine out of town and
at a moment when the troop train OF
federals approached the engine was
speeded up with an open throttle the
engineer jumping to safety. In the
explosion which followed the collision
of the locomotives 80 federal soldiers
were killed. The move was COM
plete surprise and threw a panic into
the federal army. BY this time
Campa's deploying party had closed
in behind the main federal forces and
the real attack Of the revolutlonist.
began.
Under cover of the night the feder'
ais formed for the retreat and al
daybreak the rebels found their enemy
had disappeared. according to the ac'
counts given here.
BY instruction of General Orozct
Sthe prisoners sent north were re
ceived with all honors Of war at Chi
huahua, their wounds being given th'
best of attention and the soldiers fec
and treated with every respect. The
number of privates captured is mo-
given.
Federals are said to be pouring into
Torreon exhausted and panic stricker
by their complete defeats. For day.
they had been advancing under thu
greatest discomforts Of heat and shor'
rations and are said to have been ir
ha Ia