Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-01-21

were going for their horses an(
 mounting and as fast as they mount {. ed they went off helter skelter fol
 Tampico. In less than two minutes
 net one was left at the refinery. Fifteen minutes later twenty Car.
 rancistas under General Castro came
 riding in. They had their carbines
 resting over the pommels of their
 saddles and were looking about keen.
 ly for federals, but they were not in
 any formation. They simply strag- gled in. When they reached the re- finer they asked if any federals were about. We told them that the federals had gone to Tampico. So they dis. mounted and ate their breakfasts, us- ing some of the food. which the fed erals had left behind in their haste to get away.
 While they were eating they heard the whistle of locomotive and saw a train, loaded with refugees, coming l from La Varra to Tampico. General Castro called to one of his men, It. tie fellow about five feet tall, dried up little Mexican who I learned later was from Texas, and told him to go over to the station and stop the train. The station was about five hundred feet away. The little Texas-Mexican j,,, foI tr the station. He reached there just as the train was pulling in. He point ed his rifle at the engineer and told him to stop. The engineer stopped and started to back the train, but the little rebel wouldn't have that. He made the engineer stop the engine and get out of the cab. By that time all the passengers were piling out of the train and getting away as fast as they could in every direction. There were nine federal volunteer guards on that train, but they left their rifles and cartridge belts and their uniform caps in he cars and got away with the passengers as fast as they could. The conductor and other trainmen ss capped, too. Finally General Castro sent two or three other men over to the station and they got on the train and made the engineer run it into the yards. Then they held him for further use. Later on they employed him in helping to shift cars in the yard and make up trains.
 "When the rebels left Dona Necilia December 18th, they took seven loco motives, six tank cars of fuel oil, four tank cars of water, four cars of dyna- mite. three cars of black powder, three of corn, one of shoes and good many passenger coaches and empty freight cars. They had picked up about thousand peons in Don Ce- cilia and the neighborhood and made them go out and repair the track for thirty kilometers. Then they brought the men back and turned them loose. q saw the cannonading from the artillery and the Mexican gunboats. It kept up for three days, but in all that time not one shell landed near enough to the rebels to do any dam age. Several shells from the Mexi- can gunboats fell in the federal trenches, however, and killed and wounded the volunteers who were lying there, in some instances chain ed toegther to keep them from run ming away.
 'The rebels under General Castro only execute done man. He was Chief of Police Alcala of Dona Cecilia. He had been very active in arresting rebel sympathizers and so when the rebels came, they took him and exc l cuted him as warning to others. General Castro sent that same little dried up Texas Mexican to take the .chief of police. The chief was roll ed up in mattress. The little rebel had to hit him over the head with l the handle of a six-shooter, for the chief made a little resistance, but he was taken easily enough. That night he was shot on the plaza.
 "When General Castro told me De- cember 18th, that he was going away with his men I was surprised.
 "Why, what is the matter?" l asked "ou haven't been defeated, have you?"
 "tNo,' he said, we haven't even had a real fight; but we have all we came for and so we are going away. We may come back again before a long time and take the city, if we want H. but that depends on orders from Car ranza.'
 "Two messengers came to General Castro while the shooting was gong on. They were sent by Admiral