The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-11
VILLAS VOICE
WINS VICTORY
Rebel Generals Influence With
Soldiers Wonderful
THEY FIGHT LIKE DEMONS.

At Command of Chief Troops Sweep
All Before Them-VilIa Likened to
Scottish Chief Whose "One Blast of
BugIe Horn Was Worth a Thousand
Men,"
Jimmy Hare, an American news
paper photographer, returned to Ell
Paso from Torreon, where he witness
ed the battle of Zacatecas, says an FL
Paso dispatch to the New York Ameri-
can. Of General Villa and the battle
of Zacatecas Hare said:
"Villa has been compared with Grant
and Lee and Washington and Napoleon
and other famous warriors, but after
seeing him in action at Zacatecas and
seeing the effect of his presence upon
his soldiers / am more inclined to
lilzen him to Roderick Dhu, the famous
Scottish chieftain, of whom it is said,
One blast of his bugle horn were
worth a thousand mem
'When Villa arrived upon the scene
at PimientO, an outpost of Zacatecas,
and gave the order for an attack in
force upon the almost impregnable
positions occupied by the federals his
soldiers became demons rather than
men and fought their way over seem
ingly insurmountable obstacles. Three
hours later they had not only captured
the city and all it contained, including
munitions of war, but destroyed an
army almost equal to their own in
number.
Hills Covered With Dead.
1.-The carnage was something fright
full. The surrounding hills We're lit
orally covered with dead, and bodies
OF men and horses lay in heaps in the
streets of the city, where they We're
moved down by machine gun fire as
the panic stricken federals attempted
to seek safety III flight
After being driven into the city
it General Barron's army attempted
to get away to the southwark through
| the pass leading to Laguna de Guada-
| lupe, and here is where the greatest
! loss of life was sustained.
I'm the tortuous six miles of mar
| row canyon which constitutes the road
| from the southern gateway of Zaca-
| teeas to Guadalupe the bodies Of be
| tween $500 and 5000 horses and be
! tween $500 and 1000 men We're found
THE disposition of this great mass OF
| carrion before it began to faint the
| air and cause an epidemic of disease
was in itself n stupendous as we'll as .
| grewsome task. Nearly the entire Con
stitutionalist army. or at least that por
ton of it not required in similar effort
on other portions of the battlefield anC
not including those sent in pursuit OF
the few federals. was put at work al
burying and burning the bodies Great
| quantities of lime were used in order
to cause quick disintegration and at tn,
same time disinfection.
THE mountains around and abou
the city of Zacatecas are honeycombe(
| with mine openings of all sorts, anC
many federals, finding escape cut off
sought refuge in shafts, pits and tun
nels in the surrounding hills. The Con
stitutionalists, suspecting that tn
mines would be used as places of ref
uge, searched the district promptly aft
er the order was given to cease firing
and thousands of prisoners We're cap
tured i'll this manner
Praise For Hospital Service.
"Other parties who had succeeded il
cutting their way were overtaken ant
. either captured or killed if they put u
fight
OF the loss in killed and Wounds
sustained by the Constituencies MI
Hare said that he could not talk inte
ligently because of the lack of fact
and figures on which to base Il state
ment.
He was loud in his praise of Genera
. Villas hospital service and said til
wounded on both sides were give
+ splendid care as rapidly as they coul
be brought to the hospital trains Will
the battle was in progress or to tn
I hospitals in Zacatecas after the occl
i | nation