The Ordway new era., 1914-01-16
REBELS WIN .
BIG VICTORY
WHOLE NORTH OF MEXICO DROPS
FROM DICTATOR HUERTA'S
HAND.
FAMINE IS THREATENED
STAMPEDE SAVES MASSACRE; |;
OJiNAGA FALLS; NINE
GENERALS FLEE.
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f-wrstern Newspaper Union News Service.
Preside, Tex, Jan. 12.-Twenty-
eight hundred Mexican federal sol.
diers, six generals, 100000 rounds OF
ammunition. two cannon, four large
field pieces and more than 500 civil,
Ian refugees were in the custody OF
the Uiited States Army border patrol
Sunday as the result of the federal
army's evacuation OF OjinaSa, Mexico.
It's flight to American territory and
the occupation of the Mexican village
by General Francisco Villas rebels.
The distress of the refugees is in
tense. They have scant food and no
shelter. Men, women and children.
dogs. chickens and cattle, are packed
together in a space covering scores OF
acres. About them are scattered all
the wreck which they brought in flee
ing from the Ojinaga battle.
Urgent requests for the immediate
removal of the soldiers and refugees
to some other place were sent by Ma.
ior McNamee to the War Department
through Brisadier General Bliss.
Other results of the rebel successes
which place General Villas army in
undisputed control of vast sections OF
northern Mexico are:
Federal Generals Mercado. Castro.
orpinal. Romero. Aduno and Landa
are In custody of ,ths United States
troops, awaiting their disposition by
the War Department.
Gen. Pascul Orozco and Gen. Ynez
Salabar, Federal volunteer command
ers. escaped along the border to u
point remote from Preside. Salazar
was wounded. They were accompanied
by General Caraveo and General Rojas
and 300 cavalrymen. Salazar and Or
ozco are being watched for in the
United States on indictments charg-
ing them with violating the neutrality
Avs.
| Charges of cowardice were made
against Orozco, Salazar and Rojas.
General Mercado asserted these gem
erals abandoned their troops at the
beginning of the battle and thus weak
sned the Federal defense.
| The only generals who quit the bat
| lefield with honor, General Mercado
SaIU, were tHUSe WHO accompanied tHc
Fedcrals across the Rio Grande. Cen
sral Nercado reiterated that the Fed
erals were compelled to evacuate be-
cause Of lack of ammunition. He said
1t the retreat his soldiers had an
averag ge of only seventy-eight cart
| ridges.
Canped in ojinaga, for the posses
sion Of which he had been fighting
ess than twenty-four hours previously,
General Villa started the work of es-
.ablishing rebel government. He tele-
yraphed to General Carranza:
81 nave proved my ability to capture
ojinaga."
General Castro and General Mercado
Of the Federal regulars saw that the
assault was to be nothing short of
mas ssacre.
a cannon. toppled, muzzle down
ward, a bloodstaiEed saber sticking in
he muddy river bank, rifles thrown in
heaps, the crumpled forms among the
cactus and mesquite. and the unclcsed
eyes which peered here and there from
among the rocks, were among the
mute suggestions of what had gone
before.
The country about Ojinaga is most
ly desert, with little to sustain life.
without food, the impoverished Fed
erals would be unable to proceed any
great distance.