The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-05

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away the wreckage of shell-shattered
adobe walls, street barricades and
baTbed wlre ntanglements was begun.
Whllo Villa took considerable num-
Der OF prisoners Yelasco escaped from
the Canyon dc Huaracbe with a consid-
cradle proportion of his force He was
pursued last night by General Herman
dez, who today reported that be had
fouebt small rear guard engagement
with the retreating force, and later Gem
eral Villa with reinforcements left hero
10 make an attempt to capture or an
initiate it.
Noncombatents here with whom the
Associated Press correspondent talked
today estimated that Velasco g garrison
AID not number more than 5000 men, OF
whom 1900 were killed or wounded
When Felasco fled he left behind in
the military hospital 200 wounded.
When the rebels entered the place
they found only one nurse, Dorothea
dc la Cruz, in attendance She said
that the other nurses followed the army
when 1t evacuated the city.
Wounded Were Anxious.
The patients were in high state of
anxiety, for they had been told that
Villa took no prisoners. They wero re-
assured by n. S. Cunard- -Cummine, the
British vice consul at Gomez Palacio,
who entered the hospital first, climbing
died there: The air was foul with the
odor of dried blood. Speaking in clear,
even tones, the British official an.
nounced that Villa had assured him that
none of the injured would be harmed.
At this tho patients who had the
strength raised themselves on their ell
bows from pallets on the hoor and from
their cots and cried feebly, ''Viva
Villa The nurse was soothing a dy-
ing patient who with his last breath
joined the cheering and then sank back
dead
Persons who say they were eyewit-
nesses declare that Velasco summarily
executed three Spaniards whom he ac-
cused Of firing on his troops. The wife
of one of these, Jotero Lopez, attempt
ed to shield her husband and the same
bullet killed both.
Foreigners Unharmed.
Three hundred and fifty Spaniards,
including women and children, took
refuge in bank building under the
protection Of American Consul Ulmer,
who remained In town throughout the
battle. So far the insurgents have
shown no disposition TO harm those
Spaniards who arc known to have ra-
Guiding ffty-fve Chinese, Syrians and
Austrians and 100 Americans, were un
harmed so far as could be learned to-
day.
1t was reported that General Yelasco
was wounded, but this report, like the
one that he went insane in the trenches,
could not be confirmed, and the impress
sion prevails now that he is still at the
head Of his troops. Two federal gen
erals were killed and three wounded.
1t is said here that Velasco's re"
treat was brought about by his losses
in the night assaults made by the reb-
els, and indications that his soldiers,
worn out by the prolonged fighting and
fearful of che cruelties which they
were told Villa practiced on the wound
ed and prisoners, were on the verge of
mutiny.
Foes Become Friends.
In the course of the house to house
fighting rebels and federals frequently
came within talking distance Of each
other, and in some cases got on such
friendly terms that they ceased firing
entirely. In most of these cases the
federals were persuaded to remain when
Yclasco retreated and will bo enrolled
under the rebel banner.
At least n fortnight and probably a
longer period will be required to Teor-
panize the army before tho expected
campaign against Saltillo and Monterey
can be made. -.
Rebel leaders are anxiously awaiting
~. off p vi
| tory on Mexico City and Washington,
The federal artillery was superior to
that of the rebels, many of whose shots
proved defective.
Villa Soul of Battle.
Villa was the very soul of the battle.
| His spirit animated everything WheIl
things were going wrong he would gal-
! lop along tho battle line encouraging OF
reprimanding as the lndiVldual case re-
Well done" he said to the gq9ppTpe1 g9pTsa
whose she'll had fallen true, len
like YOU will redeem MeIico,' he com
plimented a wounded man who re-
NAMED in the firing line;
"What. boy; do you iind the danIc1ing aaI3ia,
floor too roughY, he ehlded soiuie, fe,
who on some pretext was h'"hihS i''
villa was in his headquarters at Go
mez Palacio Thursday night when Tor
reon fell Almost up to. tho hour o.
the federal fight he could not see the
end Of the battle, aud that very morn
inc had telegraphed for bigger cannon
for il seemed as If his artillery was IN
adequate to dislodge the enemy from
their positions in Huarache'
Message to Public.
His black, thick hair was mussed nnc
o+anS;no straight up for the most par
and a s{x-day stubble of beard was, OF
his face. News OF the evacuation ha'
reached him and he smiled, fairly Pur
ring his answers to questions put b.
newspaper men.
HTell the public that after clever
days lighting the federais eyacuate,