The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-04-11
VILLA CAPTURED
CITY OF TORREON
MANY PRISONERS TAKEN AMI
LOSS OF LIFE HIGH ON
THE FIELD.
FEDERAL COMMAND SEIZED
eugler in Front of Carranza's Juarez
Headquarters Announced That
Rebels Had Triumphed.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

western Newspaper Union News Seryic.
Juarez, Mex.-Torreon fell com.
pieteiy into the hands Of the rebels
at 1920 O'Clock Thursday night. ac-
oordlng to announcement made h,
Gen. Venustiano Carranza.
Inc news first was announced to tho
world when the bugler in front of
Carranza's residence blew the staccato
notes OF victory. The paen, Carranza
SAID, was sounded here even before il
was heard in Torreon, Villa delaying
cut OF compliment to his chief.
Ihe meager bulletins, excitedly an
nouncing victory, after the bloodiest
OF battles known to modern Mexico.
fald that Villa captured large NUM-.
Der OF prisoners and that the fleeing
Federal remnant is being pursued.
ihere was heavy fighting the las.
DAY, and the end came when. after
capturing the three remaining bar.
racks held in the city by the Federals,
lhe rebels stormed the trenches and
parbed wire entanglements of Canyon
del Guarache.
The prisoners captured we're the de-
renders OF the barracks, while the
troops in the canyon, which formed an
egress from the hill-girt city, were able
to escape.
The campaign against the Federal
stronghold of Torreon, the main object
OF the rebel campaign, began suddenly
TWO weeks ago, after General Villa had
spent months in making the most care
1ui preparations. The rebel loss ~
tnls campaign is said to be more than !
1000 in killed and wounded.
The rebel commander moved with a
rapidity hitherto unknown in Mexican
warfare. He worked his men in shifts
and as one shift became exhausted,
ne sent fresh hosts against the enemy
A number of small towns of lesser
Importance in a military sense fell
Noe and Sacramento
where bloody battle was fought.
This opened a path for the main at
tack
Nexa came Lerdo and Gomez
Palacio, populous suburbs of Torreon,
and all three connected by a belt line
OF street cars. Lerdo was not defend.
ed, but ii took three main assaults in =
which the rebels lost heavily to take
Gomez Palacio.
In the final attack on the CITY troops
were. withdrawn from Lerdo. where
upon the Federals occupied 1t and an
other sanguinary conflicts was neces- :
,ary to retake it. I
Last Friday Gen. Monclovio Herrera
With his own brigade and part of Ben s
ivides' Zaragosa brigade of veterans.
made the first dash against Torreon. G
lie entered by the east and penetrated
o the bull ring north of the center OF r
he town, before he was checked.
Street fighting, in which hand gre
ades were the most useful weapons
ollowed.
General Villa, then at Gomez Pala-
10, announced that he would Join in
he attack assuming supreme COM ,
1and He also announced that the p
ewspaper men with him would not be u
flowed to send out any news what !,
yer until the town was completely q
l his hands. q
To the thousands whose very living
inges on conditions in Mexico there r,
,llowed period of anxious waiting. 6,
Early in the evening Carranza an A.
ounced that the status at Torreon re-
aimed unchanged. O,
Then came the bugle call Of victory. n,
exicans recognized 1t in a flash and n,
lie streets became thronged instantly. W
he throngs stormed up the street to n,
arranza's residence I'm
Repeatedly the bugler sounded the III
III, and a great wave OF cheering nc
ose. The electric lights strung
,out the Carranza residence to well tr
me him were turned an, lighting I'D ST
e draped and festooned red, white Ci
ID green OF the Mexican national col tr,
8. IN
''Viva Carranza! Viva Villa, Viva
adero! Viva Mexico!' came the