The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-26
FEDERAL. ARMY BADLY WHIPPED:
 REBEL BELIEF Juarez Battle Biggest On Con- tinent Since That Of
 Gettysburg. HUERTA TROOPS IN
 SHAMELESS RETREAT Three Hundred Killed And More Wounded In Fight
 Along Border.

defending Juarez consider all danger iof further attack from the rebels as spaet was evidenced this morning by the removal of mines near the Juarez Jockey Club, which is to open the racing season tomorrow and the de- xkruction of barbed wire defenseS erected to hold the federals in check.
 General Villa maintained that the federals were '.stil1 in full ana shameless retreat over the hills and their field pieces in his possession. A train was expected momentarily from ahe front with zoo federal prisoners son board.
 No firing has been heard to the south of Juarez this morning up to 9 o'clock Thus 1t appears that, after thirty hours of fighting, te rebel cap tors of the town had flung back the federal assault end would hold the border city without dispute
 Pursuit of the federals cannot be taken up at once because Villas store gof ammunition is low. Villa main tains, however, that a sufficient rebel tfcrce is now besieging Chin huahua to 5prevent the retreating rebels making <thefr way into the state capital. If -he has captured all their trains, the lenemy is left without food or means s6f transportation in a desert and 200 miles from its base
 The total dead from the battle, is estimated at about 300 and the wound ed more than this This, however, E mere guess work as no Ameri- cans have been over the field and a fog was hanging over everything this rnorning The American Red Cross has failed to respond to the appeals for aid made by the rebel officials yesterday and an effort will be made to obtain from other sources means to enable the Fl Paso doctors and nurses to care for the v0undeL So far onIy men woundeds in the head and body have been cared for. Broken arms and legs and hesh wounds have reeeived no -atteneion- Those slightly wounded bandaSed their hurts as best they could on the field. In several instances men were seen to cut bullets from their flesh with pocket knives The temporary as bad as they were a week ago. The hotels have been converted into hos pata1s and all the wounded are given icots or beds
 Lack Of bandages,s medicine and the proper food for the wounded is caus- Ing the most suffering. American doctors are willing to help in the care sof the wounded but they have little to work with
 Juan N Medina, chief of staff to villa, maintained that all the rebel rvpunded had been brought to Juarez This gives them a total of about 150 wouuded. He said their dead num- bered about the game. The federal
 
 day he said All hospital acconmo- Nations have been taken up and pri- vate homes win have to be used if 4he men are to be placed on beds or even under roofs.
 Seven hundred federal prisoners ar rived early this morning on a special train from Tierxa Blanca. Most of them are prfvates said to have been fdeserted on the field by their ofn- cers-
 sSor~+s+,,+s<,,aIf-+ r47s,.--. z,ot1. -. +, Battlefield and in Juarez last night praiAed the work of General Caraveo, the last federal commander to with draw from the battle south of Jua- reg
 Despite the fact that General Cara iveo's army was greatly outnumbered, : he kept up incessant fire at the rebels on their ringt wing (west of Juarez) and tried repeated charges in the hope of bending the line At 6 o'clock Tuesday night he still was Iammer1ng away at the rebel ten- 4renchments but ceased his attempts 10 cut the line an hour later.
 General Jose .Inez Salazar again reas reported captured and authentic reports from the military barracks in Juarez were that a detachment of rebels from the east wing were bring ing the federal general to the city
 General Villa said last night in a. message to Col Juan Medina that he was taking no chances and would not leave the field south of Juarez clear for renewed attack or feint on the part of the federals.
 There was some doubt in the minds cf many in Juarez and Fl Paso as to the reason of the sudden withdrawal and retreat of the defeated federaIs Some believed the body were out of smmunition and could not resist an other concerted attack by the az gressive rebels while others assert that the federal generals feared an attack from the rear by General Man F1el Choa, who was reported within 30 miles of Juarez, coming from the west of Chihuahua
 General Villa is the only original .constitutiona1ist in the state of Chi lhgahua, having fought for the prin- icipaIs of Francisco I. Madero since fhe beginning of the Madero uprising sn 1910. Villa constantly has fought under the Madero flag. Nearly all of the federal generals whom Villa idefeated in the struggle at Tierra Blanca and surrounding country have at various times fought under the con .etftutionaaists' flag but have been de- 9ea4ed by their opponents and have east their lot. with Huertistas.
 Tn the triumph of Villa yesterday there was a victory for the constitu- ffonaIists, Carranzatistas and Made rIstas-
 The last shot fired at Blanca last night marked the close of the biggest