New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-28
FEDERALS in LAST
STAND AT TORRE0N
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sitions tonight preparatory to forcing
the complete occupation of the city.
Street fighting followed the entry or
the rebels. and for hours the battle
was carried on along the business
streets of the city. All the afternoon
the rebel artillery. which had taken
positions on the hill north Of Torreon'
poured a hot fire into the city, the
rebel shells often causing damage to
Herrara's force, General Felipe An
geles. commanding the rebel artillery
being In ignorance Of Herrara's en-
trance.
Villa suspended operations for time
IN the afternoon and gave orders TO MS
men east Of Torreon TO pick up the
dead and wounded Federals. as we'll as
rebels. and carry them into Gomez
Palacio.
It was said that more than 500 Fed
eral dead were found. But no accu-
rate count was made, and il is believed
the estimate was exaggerated. Mora
than 100 rebel dead and several wound
ed were gathered from the battletields
around Gomez Palacio during the day.
The dead and wounded in the ughung
close TO Torreon and in the streets OF
that city have not been gathered up,
and their number is only conjectured.
II IS believed by the rebels that many
more Federals were slain in Torreon
proper than the rebels lost in making
the assault.
II will probably be necessary TO burn
many of the dead Of both armies, as
there has been no time since the bat
tie started, five days ago, for digging
graves. Many who met death IN the
preliminary fghting at Lerdo and
Gomez Palacio still are unburied.
Heroic Work by Hospital Corps.
Heroic work has been done by the
rebel hospital corps. Villa went int"
the battle with a we'll equipped corps
and several hospital cars especially Mt
ted up for the purpose. HIS fore
Thought. il is believed by rebels. has
prevented much Of the suffering which
ordinarily characteriZes Mexican bat
ties and has saved many lives. The
hospitals temporarily established at I'll
Veriel and those established in Gomez
Palacio early to-day are overcrowded,
and as fast as they can he carried from
the field the less seriously wounded are
being sent 10 Bermejillo by train from
El Veriel. Several buildings in Bernie
lilo have been converted into hospi-
tails and he women Of that section are
nursing the wounded.
Many houses in Torreon. some of
them large business establishments,
caught fire in the morning from rebel
shells and were burned. Scores of
other buildings were wrecked by the
bombardment. Streets in the centre OF
the city were filed with the debris of
wrecked buildings. and beneath the
ruins often were found, II is claimed.
wounded soldiers of Nelasco's army of
defence or non -combatants who were
caught by falling timbers In houses
where they had taken refuge.
The great market house. declared the
finest in Mexico and covering two city
blocks. has been riddled with shot and
shell. The Salvador Hotel. half
million dollar four story structure, and
the four and five story business houses
near II In Avenida Hidalgo. have suf-
fered severely one building which
appeared 10 escape damage through
out the Commandment was the Torreon
Foreign Club, where In peaceful days
the men OF the foreign colony had met