The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-04
IS HARRIED
 BY PURsUERs
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 rez was cut to pieces to the northwest Of the city of San Luis Potosi-
 The generals of the federal army, Mo-tre and Hidalgo, are said to have 20 or 30 field guns and a large supply of ammunition of all calibres. H1dai- go Is believed to be at Saitillo but is reported to be erdeavoring to join AIoure east Of ToHreon.
 If the rebel troops captured the whole Of the guns which were in possession of Ve1aseo, military men the field pieces in the republic and should the equipment of Moure and Hidalgo be added to this their posi- ton will be greatly superior to that of the forces commanded by Provis- io1a1 President Huerta-
 Torreon. Mex. April 3. (via Fl Paso, Tex, April 4-This city. from which General Refugio Velasco and most of the uninJured Of his occupied by the rebels in force and the work of burning the bodies of the dead, clearing away the wreck age and she11-shattered adobe walls, street barricades and barbed wire en- tanglements was begun.
 When Villa took considerable number of prisoners, velasco escaped from the Canyon de Huarache with large part of his force He was pur- sued last night by General Herman deg. who today reported that he had fought a small rear guard engage ment with the .retreating force and. later Villa with reinforcenents left here to make an attempt. to capture or annihilate it.
 FEDERAL LOSS 1,5O0. Non-con bafants here with whom The Associated Press correspon talked today estimated that ve1asco's s garrison did not number more than 5000 men. Of whom 1,5oo were killed or wounded When Velaseo fled he left behind l in the military hospital 200 wounded, 1 When the rebels entered the place they found only one nurse. Dorothea de la Cruz, in attendance She said the other nurses followed the army The patients were in a high state of l anxiety for they had been told that I Villa, took no prisoners. They were reassured by H. s. Cunard-Cummins 1 the British vice consul at Gomez PaIacio, who entered the hospital first climbing over bodies of the wounded l who had died here
 1 The air was foul with the odor o1 l dried blood. The British official an I nonnced that Villa had assured him I none of the wounded would he harm I ed. Those who had the strength rais- l ed themselves on their elbows from I pallets on the floor and from theil coats and cried feeble Viva Villa The nurse was soothing dying pa- ] tient who, with his last breath, joined T the cheering and then sank back dead.
 sPANIARDS EXECUTED.
 Persons who say they were eye 1 witnesses declare that Velasco sum 5 l rnariIv executed three Spaniards
 whom he accused of firing on hie ] troops The wife of one of these, L.o- I tero Lopez, attempted to shield her
 husband and the same bullet killed both.
 I Three hundred and fifty Spaniards. including women and children, took I refuge in bank building under the l protection of American Consul Uil-
 rner, who remained in town through out the battle. The insurgents have i shown no disposition to harm those l Spaniards who are known to have re- I mained neutral
 1 Other foreigners including 55 Chi
 rese. Syr1ans and Austrians, and 100 l Americans wer unharmed, so far as | could be learned today It was re-
 ported that General Velasco himself l was wounded, but this report, like the l one that he went insane in the trench I es. could not be confirmed and the
 impression prevails that he still is al
 the head of his troops. Two federal | generals were killed and three Wound- | ed. I It is said here that velasco's re-
 treat was brought about by his losses
 in the night assaults made by rebela and indications that his soldiers, worn
 out by the prolonged fighting and
 fearful of the cruelt1es which they
 were told Villa practiced on the
 wounded prisoners, were on the verge of mutiny-
 DESERTIONS TO VILLA
 In the course of the house tc
 house fighting federaIs and rebels 1 frequently came within talking dis
 tance of each other and in some case.
 got on such friendly terms that they
 ceased firing entirely. In some o1
 these cases. the federals were per
 suaded to remain when Velasco re