Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-18
TILL THE WORD
END IS FORESEEN
Rebel Successes in North
Are Being Followed By
Many Executions
ELEVEN FEDERALS
ARE PUT TO DEATH
Condemned Men Marched to
Cemetery, Stood Beside
Graves and Killed

Ell Paso. Tex, Nov. 17.--Eleven men
are known to have been executed in
Juarez since Francisco "Pancho" Villa
and his rebel forces captured the city
Saturday morning. The rebel chief
admits the execution of that number.
Americans who have frequented the
city since it's capture, claim that
twenty-three have been executed.
The bodies of most of the victims
are still unburied. More than twenty
corpses, some of them of men executed,
some of them bodies Of victims of the
battle, laid out all night in the rain in
the Juarez cemetery because graves
had not been completed for them.
The body Of Col. Enrique Portillo
executed Saturday, was brought to Ell
Paso last night for interment here to-
day. 1t was divested of its trousers
and shoes by rebel who was short
on clothing, while it lay in the military
barracks in Juarez Sunday. All rebels
are badly in need of clothing and the
distribution of captured federal Ani-
forms, made Sunday by Villa, did not
go around so there has been a scram-
BILE among the rebel soldiers for the
clothing of the men executed
The known victims of the rebels
executioners SO far are:
Col. Enrique Portillo.
! Col. Augustin Cortinas.
Captain jose Torres.
Captain R. 3Benavindes.
s Captain Ricardo Gontrelss.
Civilian, unknown. said to be aide to
Guillermo Porras, personal representa-
tive of General }Huerta for the state of
Chihuahua.
Jos Cordova, recent chief of secret
service for Huerta in .Juarez.
Lieut.. Pablo Riesse.
Federal soldiers, who tried to escape
a. cemetery while digging graves for
dead comrades, were knocked down
with muskets and executed while un-
conscious.
Pablo Ybave, a Juarez policeman.
Unknown civilian employed in Juarez
custom house before the rebels cap
tured it.
Only four men were executed Sun
day These were Captain Conteras,
who was military instructor of the fed
eral garrison in JuareZ under the
Huerta regime, Jose Cordova, who had
been in charge of Huerta's secret serv-
ice in Juarez; Pablo Ybave, Juarez
policeman, who had assisted Cordova
in his work and the federal soldier
grave digger. He ran and was over
taken by a rebel who broke his rife
in the terrific blow which he struck.
The fleeing soldier fell unconscious
and was then shot: An American rail
roader was an eye witness to the affair.
General Francisco Castro, who COM
manded the federal garrison when the
rebels attacked has not been located.
The rebels continue the work Of.
establishing their new civil govern
ment in Juarez They have given per
to the Mexico Northwestern
railroad, owned by DR.. F. S. Pearson
and associates of New York and Lon
don to rebuild to its timber tracts
south of Juarez. Work probably will
start this week.
General Villa said the rest of his
army will arrive soon, bringing in all
his artillery. Two train loads arrived
today. Villa declares that Chihuahua
City will be attacked as soon as he
can replenish his ammunition. Amer,
leans express fear of trouble, if Villa
his entire army of 1000 un-
disciplined men on the border.