New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-05
Americans Send Autos for
Women and Children
from Chihuahua.
WELCOME AWAITING
ALL THE CIVILIANS
Delegation from Ell Paso Ready
to Provide Homes and to
Care for the Sick.

FL Paso, Texas Dec. camping on
the desert. with their land of promise
still twenty-five miles away, two hum
Gred Of Chihuahua's richest citizens
men. women and children-accom-
panied by more than two thousand
Federal soldiers. under command Of
General Salvador Mercado. are tonight
waiting COR dawn and for suCcor from
Americans While vet fifty miles from
the border leaders Of the refugees sent
couriers ahead 20 announce their ap-
proach and 20 appeal to the people OF
Presidio and Maria. Texas, to have re-
lief measures prepared for them.
Following the first caravan, which Is
headed by General Terrazas, Mexico's
wealthiest man and owner of moro
than half of nc state Of chihuahua, IS
another cavalcade Of refugees. among
whom are many American families,
and who are making the Journey with
out troop protection and with even
fewer comforts than the MeXicans have
enjoyed
When the second lot Of refugees will
reach the border and exactly at what
point they will cross is not known.
They still are far back in the desert
enduring hardships which persons in
civilized lands cannot picture.
Autos 10 Meet Refugees.
To meet tn first caravan from Chi
huahua out I'm the sandy wastes ~
Eastern Chihuahua forty AUTOMOBILES
left Preside late to-day. They expect
10 return before daylight tomorrow
loaded with women and children oi
the refugees. The automobiles were
sent by citizens Of Maria and Preside
and represent practically all the cars in
two towns and the surrounding coun-
try. In addition. practically all the
people Of Marta and Preside have
gathered al the border with food.
clothing and vehicles II various sorts
10 taks charge OF ihc civilian refugees
and get them as quickly as possible
into warm and comfortable quarters.
At Preside also is delegation from
FL Paso. sent by the business men and
Commercial club of that city, with the
purpose in view Of extending first aid
to the refugees and getting as many Of
them as possible to FL Paso quickly.
where the sick may enter hospitals and
the women and children may be put
into hotels and homes.
The refugees and Federal troops left
Chihuahua last Sunday on eleven
trains. which they abandoned at Fal-
omir a short distance from the Con-
chos River From there for nearly one
hundred miles they treked through the
desert. "A stretch OF bleak sand, in
which the only animal life is the lizard
and the gia monster. the coyote and
the rattler. and the civilians, who had
never before known hunger or priva-
ton. suffered and persevered, and some
OF them died.
Suffering in tho Desert.
The Couriers tell Of acute suffering
when they left the party camped in the
sands. Their only hope was that aid
would reach them before they would
have to march TO the border. and this
aid. it is believed. is already with them
or very near them tonight. for each
automobile carried water and food and
q quantity of blankets.
General Pancho villa ordered a spe-
ciaI train made ready tonight TO take
high chief Of the revolution" from
JuareZ to Chihuahua tomorrow. The
high chief" is said in Juarez 10 be
General Venustiano Carranza, who is
coming from Nogales, Ariz., through
American territory. Fearing that Car
rama would be arrested if found on
American soil is given as the reason
for the secrecy about his movements.
Villa returned from the vicinity OF
Chihuahua TO villa Ahumada to-day to
eend the dispatch TO JuareZ.