Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-09
REFUGEES ARE
SAFE, SAYS
CONSUL
WORD FROM MONTEREY SAYS 300
AMERICANS, ENGLISH AND OTHER
FOREIGN REFUGEES WILL ARRIVE
THERE TONIGHT. Evacuation
or 1ORRE0N CONFIRMED.
FEDERAL GENERALS
FACE COURT MARTIAL

Mexico CITY, MEX, OCl. "a lelc-
gram received today at the United
States embassy from Consul General
Philip Hanna. at Monterey, says that
party of more than 300 Americans,
Englishmen and other foreigners, left
Torreon fifteen days ago by special
train. They are expected at Monterey
tonight.
The party was heard from yester-
day All We're we'll. One baby had
died during the overland journey and
another one had been born. Much
alarm had been experienced here over
the possible fate of foreigners in
Torreon, in view of the reported mas
sacre of l Spanards by the rebels
there.
The evacuation of the city of Tor
reon by the federal troops was con
firmed today by Manuel Garza Aldape,
minister of the interior, who declared
that General Trucy Aubert, the fed
eral commander. with Generals Mun2'
mia lgnacio Bravo and Escudero is
now at Hipolito, near Saltillo. The
latter three commanders, according
to the minister Of the interior, are to
undergo court martial for the evacua'
ton of Torreon.
The report that General Aubert has
gone over to the rebels is generally
dscredited here.
General Gustavo Mas has been re-
called from the border to cooperate
with General Lauro Villar, who left
Mexico City last night with 400 fed
eral soldiers from Torreon. Confir-
nation of the execution by the rebels
at Torreon of General Alvarez with
his staff and Il number of federal sol
diers has been received by the war
department from unofficial sources.
General Alvarez had started for Du
range when he was defeated and his
artillery captured by the rebels.
Election Bill Goes Over
The bill introduced into the Mexi-
can chamber Of deputies for the post
ponement of the presidential elections
came up for first reading yesterday,
but was postponed for two days, Pro-
visional President Huerta declared
that the bill would be unayailing in
any event. since it would be thrown
out by the senate in case the chamber
of deputies should pass it.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 9.-Small-
poX has added to the panic and desti
tuition of 5000 Mexican refugees on
Eagle Pass, Texas, according to to-
days reports to immigration head
quarters.
Eagle Pass, Texas, Oct. 9.-The
theory that the bloodless capture of
Piedras Negras, yesterday, by the ad
vance guard of General Mas federal
army, was a constitutionalist ruse to
divide the government force, was
given plausibility when it was learned
that the main body of rebels is as
sembled about Fuente, twenty miles
south of the border and that the
rebels plan to close in on Piedras
Negras. 1t is their intention, con-
stitutionalist leaders claim, to hem in
the federals about Piedras Negras,
cutting them off from their base of
supplies, and then to attack the sew
eial detachments of federals sta
toned at various points in the state
Of Coahuila. A brief skirmish oc'
CURED at Fuente yesterday.
Saloons were permitted 20 open in
Piedras Negras today No attempt
has been made to molest foreigners,
Federal officials, in a statement yes
terday, reported that eight constitu-
tionalists found in Piedras Negras,
were executed as spies.
Americans who returned from
Piedras Negras reported that one of
those executed was a woman. Fed
eral officials denied this.
General Mas requested the mill
tary authorities here to permit him
and his staff to pass through the
United States to Nuevo Laredo. to
attend conference. Permission was
refused and announcements made that
The occupation of Piedras Negras by
the federals would not change the
status of affairs, so far as the United
States is concerned. 1t is understood
hat large supplies have been con-
racted for here and efforts will be
made to prevent the shipment OF
these goods.