South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-11-27
Most of the Dead Apparently
Paid Penalty For Supporting
the Cause of Huerta Instead
of Rebel Leaders.
REBELS THREATEN To
FIRE ON OIL TANKS
Demand Removal of Gunboat
Bravo From Harbor-Ad-
miraI Fletcher Reports on
Conditions at Tuxpam.

Ell PAsO Tex. Nov. 26.-One hun
dred and eighty-four wounded men
are in Juarez hospitals tonight as
result OF the unsuccessful federal at
tack on Juarez.
Pancho Villa and 5000 rebel troops
are back in JuareZ. South of JuareZ
for 8 or 20 miles there are no rebel
soldiers. Villa says he has some far
ther south and that the city is Well
guarded against temperance of the
enemy.
Villa captured q number OF federal
field pieces and a military train. lie
said yesterday that he captured 300
federals. Today he brought less than
200 TO Juarez.
He admits executing some of them
Apparently the greatest number OF
dead as a result of the fighting, are
those who faced the firing squad and
paid the penalty Of supporting the
Huerta cause rather than that OF
Villa, Madero or Carranza.
Few Bodies or Graves.
a trip over the battlefield today re-
vealed only a few bodies or graves.
II was found that the lines Of battle
were nearly six miles apart and that
most OF the lighting had been done
at long range There was almost no
lines occupied by the rebels and the
federals.
Plenty OF empty cartridge shells
and exploded sharpness were found on
the field. Two newly made graves
were seen near Mesa, where Villa had
his headquarters and two bodies were
loaded on a train at Mesa late this al
ternoon by rebel soldiers. Beth OF
the bodies had the hands tied and
each had evidently died at the hands
Of the executioners. These were the
only dead or evidences Of dead seen
on the field.
Ample evidence Of activity was ap-
parent today in the recent locations of
the two armies. but the field was no
more strewn nor Uttered than would
have happened if any big encampment
of men had been made there for two
or three days
Dead Were Buried
Rebel soldiers explained that the
federal dead had been gathered up
and buried and they pointed off be-
yOnd the hills. IF there were many
federal dead as a result of the battle,
other than executions the rebels car
ried them a great distance across the
country TO bury them. on some
hills where federal cannon had been
planted there were dead horses and
many tracks where men. horses and
cannon had wheeled about There
were also pieces of discharged rifle
shells in the trenches but there were
no traces of freshly turned earth that
would indicate graves. in the terri
tory where the rebel lines and fOrtih-
cations lay, the two newly made
graves near Mesa and the two bodies
were all that appeared TO sight.
There were other dead, for rebels
with spades came in from remote sec
tions Of the field. but the death list
f0F So
that most Of the men who filled the
graves were men who were shot after
capture
Admit Executions.
The rebels admit executing prison
ers. who had volunteered for service
with the federals. The rebel army
riding into JuareZ today from its VIC
tory south of the city exhibited many
souvenirs of the conquest. Some OF
the soldiers wore the blue uniforms OF
the late federals, divested of theil
brass buttons and army insignia
Many of the rebel officers wore cape:
and coats of federal officers and on,
OF the rebel captains wore a new cal
of a federal officer.
ON the whole however, the rebels
had not 6CCked themselves with many
OF the spOils of war They admitted
removing the uniforms Of the meI
they executed before shooting them
NeAA AAA4Af lAtNAtttAAt tlAtN ttiF NAOtAlAlls
was thus far not soiled by the bullets
OF the rifles or the blood of the vic
tim. as was necessary To conserve al
wearing appeared
Nearly all OF Villas fighting men ar,
Quar;ered in Juarez tonight NObod,
remains on the battlefield. An occa
siOnal lame horse. released by the reb
els because OF its further uselesSnesS
nibbled at the scant, trample grass, il
the only sign OF life at the poin
where 10000 men fought YESTERDAY
and Monday.