Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-14
Nearly Five thousand Officers
PriyateS and Camp Follow
orS, Poorly Clad and Foot
: sore, on Hike.
TEN TRAINS TO TAKE
THEM TO Ell PAS0
General 0rozco and Other
Volunteer Officers With
Seven Hundred Cavalry ES-
cape From Villas Grasp,


Preside. Texas Jan 49, TURNING
their backs ON Mexico, the ragged sol
diera and generals ef the Mexican
federal army routed by the rebels
from Ojlnaga, Mexico, opposite hore
todny began their strange march to-
ward Fort bliss, at l3l paso, Texas,
where they are to be kept indefinitely
as wards OF the United states gov
crnment.
ONLY portion Of the refugees
started, but the tatterdemalion line OF
soldiers women old children, followed
hv horses. burros ana dogs, as they
stragsied over the mountain road N
clouds Of dust, was a sufficient pie
ture Of an army IN retreat. The refu-
gees on foot will lee guarded by United
States cavalrymen until they reach
Marta. sixty miles from the
border
At MARTA ten trains Of ten coaches
each are to carry the Mcxlcans 70 El
( raso under escort Of four companies
of the Twentieth United States infan-
/ Try. and at the army post at III Paso,
something like village is to sprins
up until the foreign soldiers and their
generals, who sought asylum in this
country, are taken elsewhere on are
! finally returned to Mexico
The refugees as officially counted
hy Major MeNamee show there are
s.352 soldiers and officers, l,o6i
women ana about 500 children and
infants, who are TO pc housed and fed
by This country
As he watched the vanguard OF his
army depart, al of them ill-fed. halt-
clad, footsore ana disarmed, con. SAL
yador Merrado. Huerta's former milf
tary chief IN the north. anh himself
a refugee stood apart BY the roadside.
/ ms own blue faded coat was dusty
the insgnas oi his rank we're gone.
and on his face WAS an expression af
i incredible suffering,
There is no country, except my
town, 60 which ! feel more grateful
/ than to the United states he said,
and walked away.
The whole body Of refugees viii not
/ he enroute To Maria for three or four
days and it probably Will be neNt
week before they are pat on the train
/ Tor El Paso. Along the route To Maria
Iare cnmps. each marking the end OF
TIA days journey 10 be provisioned.
From Preside 10 Maria there is no
railroad and the progress Of the SOL
Idiers and women viii be necessarily
slow
The detachment of four companies
of infantry To take the refugees "a
lcustody 20 El paso was ordered by
Brleadier General Miss in charge Il
I thc border patrol AZ El Paso ali the
soldiers aud civilians will be- kept an
Idcr guard constantly II has been
isnggcstcd that ultimately they may
/ be removed To Fort Rosecrans Calit.
I With about zoo soldiers on horses,
Oro2co, salazar, Carravco and Roias
/ commanders Of federal volunteers, es-
Iraped from the rebels at Otlnaga
Through the La Muia Pass, south OF
OjinaRa, after tney had defented "A
small body Of rebels These federal
Igenerals are believed 70 be headed
i far the nearest federal stronghold nt
/ Cualrociencgas, in the state OF Cos
hula The fact that they escaped
/ gave General villa much anxiety. IL
had ordered the execution OF an Of
them
The rebels reported that they found
i'm Oiinaga after the federal evacua-
ton, fourteen cannon. 1000 rifles and
100 rounds of ammunition. The reb-
els said they did not fire ON the re-
treating federais because they did not
want To endanger life on the American
side General Mercado's version WIS
i that the fedcrals had evacuated some
/ time before the rebels realized H.