Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-27
Rebels Apparently Defeat
Huerta's Army in Long
and Bloody Fight
WOUNDED ARRIVING
AT JUAREZ HOTELS
Estimates of the Casualties
Are Merest GuessWork
at Present Time

rebels defending Juarez consider
al! danger of further attacks from
the federals as past was evidenced
this morning by the WORK of digging
up the mines in the outskirts of the
city near the Juarez jockey club. which
Is to open the racing season tomorrow
ana the destruction of barbel wire de-
tense to hold the federals in check.
General Villa still maintained this
morning that the fed.srais ware in
full and shameless retreat over the
NILS, their trains and field pieces in
MS possession. A train was expected
momentarily from the front with 400
FEDERAL prisoners on board
No firing had been heard to the
south of Juarez this morning up to 9
o'clock.
Assault RepuIsed.
Thus, it appears that after thirty
hours of fighting the rebel captors of
the town had flung lack the fedora!
assault and would hold the border city
without dispute. Villa said he would
pursue the federals at once, but he is
known to lack ammunition and will
be forced to delay, regardless of his
inclination in the matter.
He maintained that a sufficient
rebel force Is now besieging Chihua-
hua City to prevent the retreating
federals making their way back into
the state capital. If he has captured
all their trains, the federal army is left
:, without food Or means of transporta-
tion in desert and 200 miles from it's
base.
Three Hundred Killed.
Estimates of the total dead in the
battle placed them at about 300; the
wounded many more than this. This
was mere guess work, as no Americans
have yet been over the field and fog
was hanging over everything this
morning preventing the rebels learn
ing anything of conditions The Amer
lean Red Cross has failed to respond
to the appeals for aid, made by the
rebel officials yesterday, and an effort
Will be made to secure money from
some other source to enable the Ell
Paso doctors and nurses to care for
the dying. So far, only men wounded
In the head and body have been cared
for. Broken arms and flesh wounds
nave received utterly no attention
Those slightly wounded bandaged
their hurts as best they could on the
field, with clothing, handkerchief or
anything that would stanch the flow of
blood. In several instances, wounded
men were seen to cut bullets from
their own flesh with the blades of their
tocket knives that had been dulled by
usage in camp and upon the march.
Injured at Hotels.
The temporary hospital conditions in
Juarez are not as bad as they were
week ago. The hotels have been con-
verted into hospitals and the wounded
are afforded cots or beds. Lack of
tandages, medicine and the proper
food for the wounded is causing the
most suffering at present. American
doctors are willing to work and help
in the care of the wounded, but they
have little if anything to work with.
Juan N. Medina, chief of staff to
Villa, maintained that all the rebel
wounded had been brought to Juarez.
This gives them total of about $50
wounded. He said their dead num-
bered about the same. The federal
wounded are to be brought in today,
he declared. All hospital accommo-
dations have been taken up and priv
nte homes will have to be confscated
II these men are to be placed on beds,
Or even under roofs.
Rebels Exutant.
Hcrmosillo, Sonora, Mex. Nov. 90
The defeat Of the federals below
Juarez was considered by General Car
rama and his advisers today as break
Ing the backbone of the Huerta power
In the north of Mexico.
With the defeat Of the federals at
Juarez little difficulty was expressed
In the opinion of leaders here in TAX
Ing Chihuahua city.
General Villa in his official report to
General Carranza through Col Juan
n Medine at Juarez stated he had de-
feated the federal troops utterly and
captured three military trains with all
the federal artillery, ammunition and
supplies. General Alfredo Obregon,
commander of the insurgent forces in
the northwest arrived here today from
Culiacan, capita! of Sinaloa He went
into conference with General Carranza
regarding plans for general move
ment south along the west coast.
Quit At Tuxpam
Washington, d. c., Nov. 26.-Rear
Admiral Fletcher reported by wireless
today that only one oil well at Tux
nam had been shut down and that
while threats had been made to close
down works for the non payment OF
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