The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-28
VILLAS ARMY CONQUERS
 FEDERALS NEAR TORREON

Others regaining consciousness as
 they were being borne away on lit
 ters, promptly cursed their would-be
 rescuers and tumbled out joining the
 scattered procession following in the
 train of the general.
 Viva Villa, Viva Madero." they cried in cracked voices from parc1ed
 throats.
 The remarkable endurance of these peons and their mad obscession to return to the front greatly impressed the Americans in the train of Gen. Villa. There were men in that strange procession with debp gashes across their checks men with great masses of flesh torn from their backs and sides, in uniforms literally soaked with blood; with arms and legs torn and lacerated and blood matted hair past. ed over their eyes.
 There was more than patriotism to inspire the rebel assaults, for be. hind them lay the most cruel desert in Mexico and ahead in the posses sion of the enemy food and shelter and the cooling streams of the irriga- ton ditches.
 The wounded in the outskirts of the city were the first to receive assist ance, but the small hospital corps, though working heroically were abso- lutely inadequate to the situation The dead who fell early in the assaults who had been slain by federal shells were buried first
 At every water car station there were groups of wounded In plain sight of the dying the dead were re. moved and the bodies dragged into shallow trenches. It will be neces- sary to incinerate many of the bodies of those who fell in the streets, as decomposition sets ia rapidly here and the business of fighting requires every available man. Gen Villa is anxious that the bodies shall be dis posed of immediately to avoid a pos sible pestilence.
 In the course of the battle there were instances of detachments, all of whose officers had been lost, running wildly about calling for new officers to lead them or joining other con- mands which were not leaderess.
 Other attachments in the excite ment of the fight failed to hear or de- liberately disregarded orders to fall back or seek some shelter observed by their calmer officers. They dash ed unheedingly into barber wire en- tanglements or the enemy's trenches and were moved down in heaps by federal rapid fire guns.
 Another incident of the engagement yesterday was the meeting of two armored trains at long range One was on a siding and the other on the main track They exchanged shots like two warships, but with little damage, and the federal train, which had the side track retired around curve and was lost to sight. Gomez Palacio is a railroad town and is network of tracks.
 Gen, Villa today said that his hat was off to Gen. Velasco for his de- fense of the town. The conduct of the federals was a credit to them as soldiers. Gen Villa said, that Gen. Velasco had proved himself man of resource as well as of courage.
 Three of Velasco's generals, it was reported, gave their lives in defense of the town, Generals Pena, Reyna and Anaya. It was reported also that Gen Ocaraaza was seriously wound ed
 Juarez, March 27-A telegram re- ceived at o'clock from Gen. Villa says that practically all of Torreon, in- cluding the entire business section, is in the hands of the rebels
 Gen. Herrera at the head of 4,000 men is said to have entered the city from the east instead of from the north at first reported, and to have fought his way through the streets to the bull ring on the northern edge of the city.
 A second telegram A from Villa amended the first to show'that the fed erals were concentrated in their last defenses in the western portion of the city, Rebel officials here say that if the federals do not hold their posi- tion there they inevitably must be captured
 Villa was said to be preparing to renew the assault.
 The same telegram says that fed eral Generals Pena, Reyna and Anaya have been killed and Gen. Ocaranza seriously wounded.
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