El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-03-04
REBELS FROM JUAREz co TO
CHIHUAHUA TO TAKE THE CITY
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I stating that villa had attacked tn
/ town that OrOZcO had embraced tn
/ rebel cause and was fighting him Of
/ No details We're given the rebels, tn
/ dispatches merely stating that Viii,
] had demanded the surrender Of Chihua
nua IN the name OF the government
T after 1t had become apparent tina
] OrozcO had decided TO cast his lot witt
] the rebels and his command haC
Joined him. OrozcO resisted and there
| was lively hghung sunday morning
! 1t is reported in one instance that nv,
men We're killed in another that 8;
we're killed Fighting was resumed
was driven out Orozco is supposed tC
De holding the town until the rebels
reach there from Juarez.
Machine Guns.
Prepared to NOW down any opposing
forces that they might meet, the sol
dlers who left Ciudad Juarez for Chi
huahua Sunday afternoon had a ma
chine gun loaded and primed TO shoot
from the west side OF a box car.
In charge Of the gun was S. Dreben.
soldier Of fortune, an American who
saw six years service in the United
states army in the Philippines and
during the Boxer uprising in China,
and who was later the head of a num-
Der Of Americans in the Nicaraguan
revolutions.
According to Dreben, he had $1,000
rounds Of ammunition for the machine
gun and had besides this three can
mons which shoot eight pound shells.
he said that $50 rounds OF ammuni-
ton for these cannOns was smuggled
over from Fl PasO in an automobile
Sunday morning.
Dreben was the only American con-
nected with the army commanded by
Gen. Campo.
One Southwestern Car.
Although all the freight and stock
cars used belonged TO either the Mex
leo Northwestern or the Mexican Ma
tional road and the two engines were
the property Of the former, yet, just
behind the tender Of the train which
carried most OF the troops and their
provisions OF flour and meat, was
the FL Paso & southwestern Railroad
company, winch was chuck 1uIl OF
large steel coal car that belonged to
fuel for the trip
Capt. samaniegO wounded.
Capt Fernando SamaniegO, who went
south with the advance guard Of Sal
azar's army. under command of Gen
Campo, Is reported to have been
wounded and he is being brought TO
JuareZ on a handcar for hospital treat
ment
The dispatch containing this infOr-
nation did not say how the wound
was inflicted. but It was later learned
that he was accidentally shot while on
the train en- route to Chihuahua AT
Gen. Salazar's headquarters il is said
that no opposition was encountered BY
Gen. Campo and his men en-
route south. They reached Laguna at
$3.50 Monday morning and we're eX-
pected to enter chihuahua some time
Monday afternoon. 1t is thought
therefore, that Capt SamaniegO re-
ceived the wound from which he is
suffering through an accident.
Was On OrOzcO's stan,
Capt Samanlegos up to the time OF
the mutiny IN Juarez three weeks ago,
was attached to the staff OF Gen Oroz-
co and was sent by the latter to Jua-
reZ with a body OF troops to suppress
the mutiny and restore order How
or where he Joined Salazar's forces Is
not generally known, but the fact that
he did join them lends strength to the
claim that OrozcO, BY whom he was
held in high esteem, has proved tral-
tor to the cause OF Madero and VIII
join IN the Salazar movement against
the general government.
Samanitgo is vel known in FL Paso-
His wife was al Miss Gillespie, daughter
Of sam Gillespie, formerly q conductor
on the Mexican Central railroad
A Prominent officer.
Among the officers who went south
on the troop trains carrying Salazar's
army to Chihuahua Sunday night was
Capt David de Ia Fuentes, q graduate
Of the military academy at Chapultepee,
a one time captain OF artillery IN the
AfaderO during the revolution of a year
ago and chief OF police OF the City of
Mexico curing the first few months
Of the Aiadero regime
Capt. Fuentes arrived in Juarez last
as one OF the ENJOYS sent
from San Antonio, Texas, by Emilio
VasQuez Gomez TO confer with Gen.
Salazar and his fellow officers. After
sizing up the situation he decided 10
fOrsalJe the paths OF diplomacy for
those of war and providing himself with
a brand new khaki uniform. a pistol
and a carbine he Joined the army" as
8 full fledged colonel and went with
his regiment Sunday night to be pres
snt at the attack upon the state capt.
tai should IL be found necessary TO
make an attack
Capt Fuentes Is smooth and polished
and has q reputation for being able
10 talk more and say less. to newspaper
men than any other man in the repub-
lie. 1t IS believed that he is carrying
q message to Orozco from Gomez and
that belief has a tendency TO strengthen
the impression created by Gen. Salazar
that Orozco is a "Nasquista" and that
he viii join forces with Salazar when
The latter approaches Chihuahua Non
day afternoon.
Traffic Suspended.
Owing to the presence of Villas
troops a Fresno and the reported Skin
mishing in the vicinity OF the com
oanys terminals in chihuahua the
North Western ordered all traffic over