New-York tribune., 1913-11-26
WIN HAND
TO HAND FIGHT
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bordor and II is said there are num-
dreds of men yet to be sent to Juare].
Following an appeal to the American
Red Cross Society this afternoon ny
Colonel Medina at JuareZ, DIR. {. i.
Braden. local president OF the Red
Cross has asked permission OF SecTe-
tary Charles l.. Magee to give aid 10
the wounded and bring them TO III
paso. Medina made his request on the
condition that the wounded were 10 pe
regarded as non-combatants ana were
not TO be arrested by United States OF
fers when they recovered. Iraiheu
nurses md several local physicians
have volunteered 10 assist II permis-
sion is given to go across the border.
Sixteen OF the wounded died While
being brought from the battlcheids'
and scores of the others will die during
the night. II is said. unless aid is gwen
to them Immediately. The rebels nave
only three surgeons and practically no
surgical supplies and the wounded are
forced to endure their suffering withoit
the aid Of an9sthetics.
Little children are among the wound
cd. and they bear the pain as herolcally
AS do the men. II has been noticeable
all dav that no groans or complaints
are permitted 10 escape their lips. Ohe
ten year-old boy, frightfully wounded
by shrapnel. was brought on the last
hospital train. He was conscious Dut
uncomplaining and was carried win
spcclal tenderness by the rough rebel
soldiers To temporary hospital.
\ rebel soldier. shot through the
head and evidently dying. lay stretched
ON the ground near the hospital train.
Begging a cigarette. tho dying soldier
muttered: "Madcro died for the cause.
I can do 10 more" He lay for half an
hour unattended, repeating time ana
again: Il can die for the cause, as
Madcro did" when finally the surgeon
reached him. he was past aid. He had
died for the cause.
Three federal troop trains and the
greater part of the federal artillery have
been captured by villa, according 10
a late dispatch received from h'm by
Colonel Medina tonight.
Earlier in the evening Villa tcle-
graphed:
81 communicate to you that in the
battle which took place this afternoon.
the enemy had a great number OF dead.
We took from them 300 prisoners and
captured three cannon, 80 mlllimeter
guns and ammunition
Th havoc among the fighting armies
has been terrible The number of dead
Is estimated in the hundreds, rebel
wounded claiming that the Federals
must have lost six hundred men, while
admitting that two hundred Constitu-
tionalists have been killed. Wounded
men are reported strewn all over the
battlefield.
Colonel Pornrio Talamantes, of the
rebel army, is among the killed, and
General Jose Rodriguez is among the
rebel wounded. Rebels insist that
General Inez Salazar, one OF the tederal
commanders, is wounded.
Pancho Villa was in the thickest OF
the fight at "A point about five miles
south OF Mesa. according to men arrlv-
ing on the train from the front at noon.
His officers are said to be trying 10 In
duce him 10 remain in the rear, but he
persists in leading the principal move
ments i'm the centre. The hottest battle
has been along the railroad.
That the federals are trying tonight
TO force their way into Juarez under
cover of darkness is indicated by the
firing that can be heard at the front.
II Is the general belief that the federals
have again sought to break Villas
right wing and force their way into
Juarez along the foothills direct and
through the mountain pass by way of
Flores ranch.
On an appeal made by Americans at
Yseta, Tex, that hundreds of strag
glers from the federal army which had
been fighting opposite that point were
filling the town, a troop of United
States cavalry was sent there tonight
from Fort Bliss. The federals when
defeated at Zaragoza to-day began
seeking refuge on the American side
and seriously threatened the American
town.
This afternoon the I'd United States
Cavalry was ordered in from Fort !
Bliss to give additional protection to !
FL Paso, reinforcing the troops sta
toned along the border in the lower !
part of the city.
The rebel Generals Contreras and !
Chao began to-day an attack on the |
city OF chihuahua, capital of the state |
of that name. News Of the attack was
sent to Juarez tonight by General
villa, who had got into communication
with the attacking forces by telegraph.