Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-10-02
BATTLE REPORTED NEAR
santa ROSAL|A
FEDERAL kDVlCES RECEIVED AT JUAREz
SAY VILLA AND CASTRO ARE FIGHTING
TUCSON GIRL IN JAIL IN JUAREz.

Eel Paso. Texas, Oct 2.-Meager ad-
vices to Col. Juan Vasquez, command
ing the Juarez garrison, today, tells
of a battle in progress at Santa no
sala. one hundred miles south OF Chi
huahua City. Federals commanded by
General Francisco Castro, embracing
the commands of Castro, Rojas, Landa
and Mancilo, numbering four thou
sand. are said to have attacked rebels
of Villa. Irrbina and Chaos commands.
1t is not known how many rebels are
engaged Villa and Chao, it is said,
were moving upon Torreon for re-
newal of the attack on that city when
Castro's army overlook them at San
ia Rosalia. No details have been re-
ceiyed although telegraph wires are
working from Juarez to Chihuahua
City
American Consul Thomas D. Ed
wards, of Juarez, this morning notified
Col. Juan n. Vasquez, federal COM
mander here, that the United States
expects a speedy hearing for Miss Con
,cepcion Zuniga, the Arizona girl held
as a SPY in Juarez. The girl, VINO was
horn in Tucson, and came here yes
terday from Douglas, is not held III
iail, but is under guard in private
room. 1t is charged she was carry
ing rebel dispatches to 1uarez rebels.
She was arrested in Juarez when she
went there on a sightseeing trip
Miss Zuniga Released.
Miss Zuniga was given hearing by
the federal authorities in Juarez TINS
afternoon. following the demand by
! American Consul Edwards for an i'm
mediate trial. She was promptly re-
| leased. according to announcement
made at the consulate at Juarez this
I afternoon.
Constitutionalsts in El Paso claim
ito have advices that the federals have
| been defeated at Santa Rosalia and
that call has been sent out for fed
6al reinforcements and that trains
iale being made up at Chihuahua TO
take additional troops to the scene OF
| battle.
1t is claimed by the Constitutional
lists that Villa played trick upon
Castro when he left Santa Rosalla, os'
tensiby for the south. They claim
Villa returned with his army reinforc'
ed with the commands of Chao and
Urbina, and that he has more than
four thousand men in opposition to
the federals.
Attempt to Capture Town.
Piedras Negras, Oct. "A filibuster
ing expedition attempted to capture
Piedras Negras from the American
side of the Rio, Grande today. They
were repulsed" by w border patro
and the neiI1ffsf guards placed il
charge of the city yesterday after TIT
constitutionalist evacuation.
Two bands attacked the city, bu
word of their coming had reached thu
city and the invaders met hot rift
fire as they crossed the internationa
line. They were forced to retreat.
is not known whether any were wound
ed. American military authorities arr
investigating.
EARLY today the sky was illuminated
by a confagration to the south o
Piedras Negras, but telegraph line:
being cut, the nature could not b'
Learned.
Meager reports say that the consti
tutionalists have started a campaign
outside of the sphere of American in
duence and that all towns betweer
the border and the line Of hostilitie'
at Peyotes are being destroyed.
Conditions in Pnedras Negras wer'
quiet last night and apparently normal
except for the presence of hundreds
of refugees.
Encouraging accounts from the from
are still given by the Constitutional
lists, who assert Monclova has been re
taken by re-infrcements from Mata
moraS.