The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-04-08

der took the place Of chaos. He had |
the doors of drinking places nailed |
up, stopped the looting and ordered |
that anybody caught selling liquor
should be shot on the spot. And Vii |
la saw to it that his orders were
strictly enforced.
Allowed to Keep Loot
Nevertheless, it is true that Villa
also ordered that the looters be al
lowed to retain whatever they had
captured.
And SO the fighting went on inter-
mittently day and night until Villa 5
steady plugging literally wore the
enemy down to earth.
The hardest fight with the great
est losses, was done by the rebel Du-
range brigade. To us Americans this
brigade was the most interesting of
all the soldiers on this bloody field.
They know what fighting is. For
ClCNCd udS last IAN lACs lOuSAL anu
ragged around this same city of Tor
reon. Much of the time with moth
ing to eat and little to drink That
battle was a failure. This time they
won.
The Durango brigade goes into
| battle singing. Their feet know
nothing about shoes. They wear san
dals. Their legs are bare and their
plain trousers are in rags. Their
arms are the old Springfelds and
their cartridges are so few that
when they shoot they shoot to hit.
! The Durango rough riders will
now have better clothes-free- out
| Of Torreon stores.
! No such battle could be fought
without great bravery on both sides.
Some of the crack federal regiments
were in the town and they were the
| backbone of the defense.
Regiments of Criminals
! Some Of the regiments consisted
| of only criminals who had been TAX
| en- out of the jails and pressed into
the ranks by order of Huerta These
regiments were filled up with poems
/ who had been drafted much against
their own will. In the cases Of these
poems and criminals the officers
made them fight by standing behind
them with cooked revolvers.
General Velasco's army also con-
| tanned many volunteers, some of
them hard-riding fellows, who form
the Madero revolution. If any of
these were captured they are dead
| by this time, because Villa swore he
would shoot them down in cold
ment of women, torturing of prison
ers and killing of harmless poems.
The rurales, famous as old man
Diaz's mounted constabulary, fought
squad of ten of them that was hem
med in between two wings of Gener-
al Villas army. They were spotted
and pursued, and one after another
they were killed during a chase of
some twenty miles, but not a man
showed sign of surrender from
| first to last
Crowds Flock to Villa
Nothing succeeds like success in
| this revolution. No sooner had Viii
la captured Gomez Palacio and dis
lodged he federal artillery from the
mountains than the peons-men wo-
men and children-began to flock
into Villas camp and ask to be CIV
en- guns that they might fight for the
constitution. Hundreds were taken
in, among them a number of boys
not much more than thirteen or
fourteen years of age.
One father went to Villas tent
and begged him to give him back
his boy. The lad was called and in
sisted that he wanted to fight for
the constitution. Turning to the
father, the general said:i
You see. He believes in our
cause. l will not refuse him the
right to fight for his country. This
| is the way We make men out of Mex