The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-27
NEWSPAPER MEN FIND BUT FEW DEAD ON THE BATTLEFIELD
 SOUTH OF JAUREz.
WAS SORT Of OPERA BOUfFE
Ten Thousand Men Fought Two Days With But Few Casualties-Villaa and His 5000 Men Have Returned 10 Jaurez to Rest Up.

Fl Paso, Tex, Nov. ?G.-One hun.
 dred and eighty-four wounded men are in the Jaurez hospitals tonight as result of the unsuccessful federal attack on Jaurez.
 Rancho Villa and six thousand rebel troops are back in ,aurez. South of Jaurez for Is or 20 miles there are no rebel soldiers. Villa says he has some further south and that the city is we'll guarded against a reappear- ance of the e.omy
 Villa captured a number of federal field pieces and a military train. He said yesterday that he captured five hundred federals. Tiday he brought less than 200 to Jaurez. He admits executing some O. them. Apparently the greatest number of dead as re- suit of the fighting are those who faced the firing squad and paid the penalty of supporting the Huerta cause rather than that of Villa, Ma dero or Carranza. A trip over the battlefield tc day revealed cnly few bodies.
 Plenty of empty cartridge shells and exploded shrapnels were found on the fields. Two newly made graves were seen near Mesa where Villa had his headquarters, and two bodies were praced on a train at Mesa late this afternoon by rebel soldiers.
 The hands of both r.he bodies were tied and each evidently had died q. the hands of executioners. These were the only dead or evidences of dead seen on the field.
 Ample evidence of activity was ap- l parent today in the recent locations ! of the two armies but the field was l no more filtered than would have | been the case if any big encampment | of men had been made there for two 1 or three days.
 Rebel soldiers explained that the | federal dead had been gathered up | and buried and they pointed off be- l yond the hills. If there were many | federal dead as the result of the bat 1 tie, other than executions, tf . rebels | carried them a great distance across | the country to bury them. On some | hills where federal cannon had been l planted there were dead horses and | many tracks of men, horses and can non wheels There also were piles ! of discharged rifle shells in the trench l es but there were no traces of fresh | ly turned earth that would indicate | graves. In the territory where the | rebel lines and fortlfications lay the | two newly made graves near Mesa | and the two bodies were all that ap- | peared 10 sight.
 There were other dead, for rebels 1 with spades came in from remote sec tions of the field, but the death list is not heavy. The general belief is that most of the men who filled the graves were men who were shot after capture.
 The rebels admit executing prison CTS who had volunteered for service with the federals. The rebel army riding into Jaurez today from it's vic tory south of the city exhibited many souvenirs of the conquest. Some of the soldiers wore the blue uniforms of the late federals, diyUsted of their | brass buttons and insignia. Many rebel officers wore capes and coats of federal officers and one rebel. cap
 tain wore a new cap of federal off cer. The rebels admitted removing
 the uniforms of the men they execu- l ted by shooting, explaining that it \ was necessary to conserve all wear
 ing apparel.
 Nearly all of Villas fighting men
 are quartered in Jaurez tonight. No body remains on the battlefield An occasional lame horse released by .he
 rebels because of it's further useless
 ness, nibbling at the scant, trampled vegetation, is the only sign of life at the point where ten thousand men
 fought yesterday and the day before.
 A rain which was abandoned by the federals d few miles south of
 Samalayuca in the retreat to the south
 after the battle of Tierra Blanca, was captured by General Francisco Villas rebel troops late this afternoon, ae- cording to an official message re-
 ceived tonight at the Jaurez military headquarters. On the train were four