Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-11-27
Careful Examination Of Field
by Associated Press COrre-
Spondent Indicates Casual
ties Were Few,
MANY PRISONERS WERE
EXECUTED BY REBELS
Villa Declares Juarez Is Amply
Guarded Against Federals,
but No Effort Has Been
Made 10 Pursue Enemy,

inV HoHNtku IoupAAt SPECIAL LuAaup wiaUl
El Paso Texas Nov 26-One hum
dred and eighty-four wounded men
are IN the Juarez hospitals tonight as
a result OF the unsuccessful federal at
tack upon Iuarez
PanCho villa Ia also back In Juarcz.
Six thousand rebel troops are back
m JuareA south OF Juarez Tor eight
cen or twenty miles there are no
rebel soldiers. villa says he has some
further south and that the city is well
guarded against "A temperance of the
enemy But villa has made no effort
TO pursue the enemy.
villa captured number OF federal
field pieces and number OF cars This
is apparent to anyone who saw his
army so out the other day and then
come hack today Horses dragged fif-
teen field pieces two were on the
train that brought the rebel leader
himself and five more we're brought
in tonight on the train that villa left
ON the field today In charge Of the
burial squad. villa had only nine
guns when he went out.
villa said yesterday that he cap
tured 500 federaia Today he brought
less than 200 to Juarez. He admits
executing some OF them. Apparently
the greatest number OF dead as a re-
suit of the fighting are those who
faced the firing squad and paid the
penalty Of supporting the Huertd
cause rather than that OF villa, Ma
dero or Carranza. A trip over the hat-
tlefield today failed 90 reveal but a
very few dead bodies or newly made
graves.
Plenty Of empty cartridge shells
and exploded shrapnels were found
upon the field Two newly made
graves We're seen near Mesa, where
villa made his headquarters and two
dead bodies were loaded upon a train
at Mesa late this afternoon BY the
rebel soldiers. while a correspondent
OF the Associated Press was present
Both these bodies had their hands tied
and each had evidently died at the
hands Of the exeoutioners These
were the only dead or evidences Of
dead seen upon the field. The cor
respondent entered the field at
Bauche. where the rebels had their
artillery. where they turned back the
federal effort Monday to flank them
on the left traversed the distance of
the rebel line TO Mesa, zigzaRglng over
the field then went straight south to
the federal trenches, seven miles from
Mesa.
Ample evidences Of very recent ac-
tivity were present In the recent lo-
Gallons OF the two armies, but the
field was no more strewn nor Uttered
than would have happened II any big
encanpment of men had been made
there for two or three days
Broken, discarded saddles were
seen. hats blew about In the wind.
an occasional blanket or shirt was
flapping In the morning wind from
the low brush that covers the country
and an occasional dead horse was en-
countered Rebel soldiers explained
that the federal dead had been gath
cred up and buried, ana they pointed
off beyond the hills. II there were
many federal dead as a result of the
battle. other than executions, the reb-
els carried them great distance
across the country 10 bury them,
The Associated Press correspondent
climbed hills where federal cannon
had been planted found dead horses
found many tracks where
men, horses and cannon had been
about saw piles Of dis
charged rifle shells by the thousands
In the trenches and walked great dis
lnnces IN the rear, 20 each side and
to The front Of the trenches yet failed
to find any freshly turned earth that
would indicate graves
The same proceeding was followed
In the territory where the rebel lines
ana Notifications lay The two newly
made graves near Mesa and the two
dead bodies were all that rewarded
he search. There We're other dead.
For rebels with spndes were seen COM
ng In from remote sections Of the
Held, hut the death list is not heavy.
rho general belief Is that most Of the
non VINO filled the graves however,
we're men who We're shot after cap
ure. one Of the points in favor OF
such conclusion Is the almost un
disturbed character Of the ground be-
wecn the two battle lines The dis
ance Is six miles and the fighting APP
,cars to have been from one line to
he other with very little activity be-
ween the two. The ground ls scarcely
disturbed on any Of the intervening
The rebels admit executing certain
II their prisoners and explain that
nly such men MS had volunteered for
erVico with the federals were thus
isposed Of The rebel army riding
nt0 Juarcz today from its victory
0uth Of the city, exhibited many SOU
euirs of the conquest. Some of the
ebel soldiers wore the blue uniforms
f the late federals dlvested of their
rass buttons and army insignia.
iany Of the rebel officers wore eapes
nd coats Of federal officers and one
+ the rebel captains wore a new cap
T. federal officer on the whole,
owever. the rebels had not decked
themselves with many OF the spoils OF
AR They admitted removing the
from the men they executed
efore shooting them carefully ex-
lainng that the clothing was thus
ot soied by the bullets Of the rifles
e the blood Of the victim. and that It
as necessary to conserve all wear
is apparel
Practically all Of the villa fighting