The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-26
Victory of Gen. villa Over
Federals Is Complete.
Huerta's Army Is Routed and
DemOralized.
HOSPITALS FUIl Of WOUNDED
Biggest Battle Ever Fought on
Soil of Mexico.
COnstitutiOnalists Are In Con-
troll of State of chihuahua.

IOl OF St8te Oh CuluuoAu0s
El Paso, Texas, Nov. 26.-Approxi-
mately seven hundred federal prison.
ers arrived early this morning on a
special train from TERRA Blanca. Most
of them are privates said to have been
deserted on the field by their officers.
All the hospitals in Juarez arc crowd
ed and reports of hospital trains COM
ing in from the front indicate that a
thousand wounded will have arrived
by tonight.
ConstitutionaIist officers both on the
battlefield and in Juarez were louo IN
their praise of the brilliant work OF
General Caraveo, the last feoeral 1,o coM.
mander to withdraw from the battle
south of Juarez. Despite the fact that
General Caraveo was greatly outnum-
bered, he kept up an 1ncessant 11Te
at the rebels on their right wing (west
of Juarez) and tried repeated charges
in the hope of bending the line. AT
O'Clock Tuesday night he still was
hammering away at the reDeI en-
trenchments, but an hour later ceased
his attempts to cut the line. Generai
Jose Ynez SalaZar again was reported
captured and auspicious reports from
the military barracks In Jaurez were
that a detachment of rebels from the
east wing were bringing the federal
general to the city.
Is Taking No Chances.
General Villa said in a message 10
Col. Juan Medina that he was taxing
no chances and would not leave the
field south of Juarez clear for a re-
newed attack or feint. on the part OF
the federals. There was some doubt
in the minds of many in Juarez ana
Ell Paso as to the reason OF the sud
den withdrawal and retreat OF the de-
feated federals. Some believed tney
were out Of ammunition and could not
resist another concerted attack by the
aggressive rebels while others asserted
the federal generals feared an attack
from the rear by General manuel
Chao. who was reported within 80
miles of Juarez coming from the west
of Chihuahua.
The victory was a double one In a
way for the Maderistas. General
Villa is the only original constitution
alist In the state of Chihuahua, hav-
ing fought for the principles OF Fran
cisco 1. Madero since the beginning
of the Madero uprising in 1910. Villa
constantly has fought under the Ma
dero flag. Nearly all of the federal
generals wnom Villa defeated in the
struggle at TERRA Blanca and sur
rounding country have at various
times fought under the constitution
alist flag but have deserted the cause
and cast their lot with the Huerta-
istas.
Villas Triumph.
In the triumph Of Villa there is a
victory for the constitutionalists, Car
anzas and Maderistas. Villa prefers
the name Maderista to that of con-
stitutionalist 1t also gives the con-
stitutionalists control over the state of
Chihuahua. The last shot fired at
Bauche marked the close of the big
gest and most stubbOrnly fought bat
tie that has been recorded on the
North American continent since the
close of the Civil war. There were
more men engaged, the line of battle
extended further and more dead are
reported in the battle of TERRA
Blanca than in any other in the his
tory Of Mexico.
That the federals will not make an
attempt to reorganize their disabled
forces is generally believed in Juarez.
They have been cut Off from the
United States border on the north and
from the rest of Mexico on the south.
Rebels control almost every city of
importance in the state Of Chihuahua
and the state capital is an isolated
spot on the map of Mexico. 1t is i'm
possible for the federals to obtain as
sistance or supplies from the south,
owing to many rebel commands sur
TOuHuAH6 tHC CITY. <AS N1AId COHIIOlS
the northern portion of the state,
those federalst in Chihuahua City un-
der Governor General Mercado will
be forced either to surrender or to
starve. They are said to be destitute
ammunition.
More Troops to Border.
Washington, c;ov. 26.-The Twen-
tieth infantry at Fort Douglas, neal
Salt Lake City, Utah, is about to be
ordered to Ell Paso to patrol the city
and the cavalry now there will patrol
the international border outside the
city limits. Brigadier General Bliss
commanding the border forces, asked
for reinforcements because of uneasi-
ness in Ell Paso over renewal of hos
tilities below Juarez.
An Important Victory.
Hermosillo. Sonora. Nov. 26.-The
defeat of the federals below Juarez Is
considered by General Carranza and
his advisers today as breaking the
backbone of the Huerta power in the
northern part of Mexico The follow.
ing Of such insurrecto leaders as Pas.
cual Orozco and Jose Inez Salazar
who were in the battle, always ha,
been deemed by rebel leaders more
dangerous to the progress of the pres.
ent revolution than the regular fed
eral troops. 1t was reported here to.
day that while Villa was engaxint
the troops Of Salazar and Orozco neal
Samalayuca, Manuel Chao, a constf
tutionalist leader of the Parral dis
trict, was moving against chihuahua
City to attack General Mecados ant
1000 federals garrisoning the stat,
capital.
Federals Stripped of Clothing.
Ell Paso. Nov. 26.-The suffering
of the wounded rebels who wer,
brought to Juarez was borne usual.
with great fortitude. There wa
scarcely ever a groan or q twitch o
the face. With gaping holes in hea,
or chest, or with limbs dangling from
bullet and shrapnel wounds, tn
wounded sat or lay quietly ON tn