The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-06
General Orozco Directs Move
ment of $500 Cavalry To-
ward Rich Region for
Guerrilla Warfare.
GOVERNMENT TROOPS
TRY TO HOLD PASSES
Plan TO Attack lnsurrectos at
JIarez Abandoned; Huerta,
With Large Army, Will
Seek Battle.

A qua PRIETA, Sonora, July s.
~ -Adyices reached here tonight
I that 1900 rebels had left Casas
Grsndes, marching toward the
Sonora state line.
General Sanjines, the federal com
inander, announced that he had aban-
doned his plan for an attack on Juarez
and would distribute his forces now in
defense of the mountain pass leading
into Sonora until General Huerta can
bring his government forces up from
the south for general attack on the
rebels.
Rebels at Juarez.
JUAREZ, Mex, July 5.-Tbe transi-
tory stage of the Mexican revolution
its passage from an organized military
campaign into a guerrilla warfare
brought nearly 1000 rebel troops here
today en- route TO Casas Grandes and
the region along the Mexican North
western railroad. about 100 miles south.
west Of the border.
Hundreds of women and children,
mostly refugees from Chihuahua City,
now in the hands of the federal gov
ernment, came with the troops Home
less, they camped in the streets to-
night. cooking their meals on curbs
and sleeping in the open.
General Pascual Orozco, the rebel
chief, spent the day ut Sauz, thirty
miles north of Chihuahua, giving final
orders to 5000 cavalry which he direct
cd westward across country toward
Casas Grandes and the state of So
nora, now the rebel objective. He will
arrive in Juarez tomorrow.
Legislature Arrives.
Three Of the five troop trains which
left Bachimba, where the federals de-
feated the rebel army two days ago.
had reached here at O'Clock Two
more were on their way and In one OF
these General OroZco was said to be
coming.
Governor Felipe Gutierrez and mem
bers of the rebel legislature arrived TO-
day. Those who witnessed the battle
of Bachimba declare the federals had
every advantage, driving the rebels
away long before they intended to re.
treat.
When the last troop train was pull
ing out of Bachimba, Il scattered fire
from federal cavalry was directed at
it, the passengers calling frantically TO
the engineer for speed. Even late last
night firing from the federal cavalry
outside the city of Chihuahua is said
TO have been heard. heralding the ap.
proach of the federal vanguard
Rumor Attack on Ell Paso.
WASHINGTON, July 5-A telegram
received late today from FL Paso de-
:lared that General Orozco, the insur-
gent leader, has planned To direct an
artillery fire on the electric light and
power works on the American eide OF
he line at FL Paso.
The plant supplies light and power
TO Juarez as well as FL Paso. As
Iuarez is in undisputed possession Of
he insurgents, the officials here cannot
understand why they should cut off
heir own light and power unless they
seek TO force United States
by firing across the bor-
Ter.
Colonel Steever, commanding the
FOODS on the Texas border. today tele
raphed he had heard that 1900 rebel
oldiers have arrived in Iuarez from
he south within the last twenty-foW
ours,
Governor Colquitt of Texas wired
hat he considered the situation so
ritical that he has withdrawn tho
exns militia from the maneuver camp
{ Alexandria. La, to guard the border
/ FL Paso.
seport Is Denied.
Ell PASO, Tex, July 5.-Colonel Pas
nal Orozco. Sr.. father of the rebel
nicf. denied today the report from
7ashingtop that the rebels would
reet artillery fire across the inter
stional line TO destroy the plant of
4 FL Paso electric lighting company.
he story had been in circulation here
II nearly month. but officials .hore
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