Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1913-12-05
REBELS ARE V|CIORS
MANY CAPTIVES ARE EXECUTED
BY GEN. VILLAS TROOPS
FOLLOWING BATTLE.
FAMOUS GENERAL IS SLAIN?
salazar Reported to Have Been Killed
In Battle With Rebeis-Appeal Is
Made to American Red Cross for
Aid by constitutionaIists.


Ell Paso, Tex, Nov. 27.-Following
fighting "a hours in front of Juarez,
the rebels and federals hold virtually
the same territory they held on Tues
day; if anything. the federals have
been driven bit fruther from the goal
now held and being defended by the
rebels.
General Villa claims a complete VIC
tory over the federals and sent the fol-
lowing message to his office in Juarez
from his position at the front:
Il communicate with satisfaction
that we have completely routed the
enemy. We took all his artillery and
three trains. The federals are in full
and shameless fight" 4.....5
(Signedls E.PANCHO VILLA.
A wounded rebel officer brought to
Juarez on Tuesday on a Red Cross
train is authority for the statement
that thirty or forty of Salazar's federal
volunteers, captured in the fighting
before Zaragosa, were brought before
General Villa, who ordered them exc
cuted in the field. the order being car
ried out at once.
Many rebels are wearing federal
uniforms and overcoats taken from
prisoners, who we're made to strip be-
that the clothing would not be dam
aged by the death-dealing bullets.
Even the shoes were taken off their
feet, so that they would not be
spoiled. The men had been cut off
from the main body and taken after
desperate fight. A number of them
were wounded; but, knowing the fate
that would befall them in case they
were captured by Villa. did all in
their power to escape falling into the
hands of his men.
General Rodriguez, the commander
of the right wing, who was wounded
in the fighting before Bauche, but
who refused to retire, was brought
to Juarez for treatment, and reported
to Colonel Medina. The jefe las
armas declares that it is beyond doubt
that General Salazar. who was
hemmed in at Zaragosa by an over
whelming force of rebels, has been
killed and his army of 1000 men all
but annihilated.
General Rodriguez was succeeded
in command of the rebel right by Gen
eral Ortega.
Gen. Porfirio Talamantes, leader of
the Sonora troops fighting under VII
las banner, was killed in the fight
ing south of TERRA Blanca. His body
was brought to Juarez and buried
with military honors.
News was received at the Quartet
General that the squadron of rebels
which SO mysteriously appeared on
the scene At Zaragora and drove OF
the reinforcements that had been
sent to relieve Salazar's command,
were from Coahuila, under the COM
mand of Colonel Agulles, and were
not a part of Gen. Tomas Urbina's
column of 5000 men said to be ap-
preaching from the south.
Colonel Urbina was not expected to
arrive in the vicinity Of Juarez until
Thursday. After the fighting he sent
messenger to Clint, Tex, who noti-
fed headquarters in Juarez of his ar
rival in the nick of time to save the
left wing from probable defeat.
At Zaragoza the fighting had ceased
entirely, according to reports tele-
phoned from Ysleta. 1t was said that
a mounted man who arrived in that
town and who said that though he was
a noncombatant he had witnessed the
whole fighting. had reported that Sa-
lazar's command had been practically
wiped out.
Shortly after noon hospital train
bearing % wounded and three dead
and a number of women and children,
rived in Juarez. The wounded were
taken to the military hospital for treat
ment. There are now 100 wounded in
Juarez.
Juan N. Medina of the constitution
alist forces has sent an apepal for the
assistance of the American Red Cross
in caring for the wounded. Some
nurses have been sent to the front, but
there is need of more and for medi-
cineS and bandages.
Pancho Villa was in the thickest of
the fight near Mesa, according TO men
arriving on the train from the front
at noon. His officers are said to be en-
the rear, but he persists in leading
the principal movements in the
center.