Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-26
VILLA CRUSHES
THE FEDERAL
FORCES
APPARENTLY ADMINISTERS A CRUSH
ING DEFEAT TO the FEDERAL
ARMY SOUTH OF IUAREz, AND
CAPTURES THIRTY-TW0 CANNON
AND MANY PRISONERS.
CARRANzA PLEASED
WITH REBEL VICTORY

Ell Paso, Tex, Nov 26.-Four train
loads of federal prisoners captured by
Villas rebel army were brought to
Juarez at IL o'clock today, Pancho
Villa accompanying the movement in
special car with trumpeters on the
roof of the car blowing blasts of vic
tory as the trains pulled into Juarez
In all more than 400 prisoners were
on the trains, according to rebe
count, and it was stated that all for
mer rebels who were found among the
captives were promptly executed or
the field of battle. Thirty-one field
pieces were captured by Villas army
according to rebel leaders, most OF
them being left on the field until the
wounded and prisoners could be
brought to the border. Among the
cannon captured was "El Nino" the
famous ship gun which the federals
for more than year have used affec-
lively in campaign around Chihuahua.
Most of the cars used in transport
ing the prisoners to Juarez were cap
tured from the federals, it is claimed,
and many of the prisoners said they
were glad to get out of the fight even
as prisoners.
There We're no volunteers or irreg-
ulars among the prisoners on the
trains. There We're no wounded on
the trains, the majority of the more
seriously wounded having already
been brought to the border,
Villas army returned to Juarez
this morning. Congratulatory tele-
grams to Villa are being received in
Ell Paso and are taken to him on the
Mexican side.
None of the prisoners are being
executed in Juarez and it is said by
rebel leaders that there will be no eX
ecutions except for cause and after
full investigation.
Villas army, returning from its
victorious battle at Mesa, began ar
irving in JuareZ shortly before noon,
the men in good spirits apparently,
and well supplied with ammunition
which they had captured from the
federals. Fifteen federal field pieces
and fifteen machine guns, captured by
the rebels, were brought overland to
Juarez and arrived at about the same
time that the rebel army commenced
coming in A troop review. which
was in the nature of triumphal pa
rade, was at once started, and was
reviewed by General Villa from an
automobile.
The prisoners brought in today were
from Mesa, south of Juarez 1t was
stated that those which reached Juar-
ez late last night, and which were es-
timated at 700, were captured in the
fighting east of Ysleta, Texas, near
Zaragosa.
General Ynez Salazar, federal COM
mander of irregular cavalry, is report
ed by rebels to have been shot in the
right side and seriously wounded in
Tuesdays fighting Rebels say they
saw Salazar carried to the rear dur
ing the battle.
Villa maintains that suffirient
rebel force is now besieging Chihua-
hua to prevent the retreating federals
making their way back into the state
capital If he has captured all their
trains, the federal army is left With
out food or means OF transportation.
in a desert and 200 miles from their
base. Estimates of the total dead in
the battle place them at about 300;
the wounded many more than this.
This is mere guesswork, as no Ameri-
cans have yet been over the field and
a fog was hanging over everything
this morning, preventing the rebels,
even with the break of day, learning
of conditions.
So far, only men wounded in the
head and body have been cared for.
Broken arms and legs and flesh
wounds have received utterly no at
tention.
Those slightly wounded bandaged
their hurts as best they could on the
field, with clothing, handkerchiefs or
anything that would stanch the flow
Of blood. In several instances, the
wounded men were seen to cut bull
let's from their own flesh with the
blades of pocket knives, that had been
iulled by usage in camp and upon the
march,
Upon information that nearly one
thousand federal wounded are lying
on the battle field at Mesa, thirteen
miles below Juarez, unattended and
many of them stripped of their outer
clothing. appeals for aid from Ell Pa
scans for funds to equip hospital
squads to go to the front were made
this morning by local Huerta sympa'
thizers. Movements have been start
ed to raise funds to buy hospital sup
plies and to send nurses and surgeons
to look after the federal wounded.
The wounded it is stated, are being
brought to Juarez and are being cared
for today.
FederaIs Deny Story.
Federals soldiers who have reached
this side of the border say today that
the entire federal army is at Sama.