Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-12
j. s. CAVALRY IN
CHASE OF MEXICAN
RA|D|NG PARTIES
Believe 1t Was Huerta's Men
Who Crossed Rio Grande to
Attack Rebels.

Ell PAsO, Tex, Feb. 12.-Troopers
of the United States at dawn TODAY
resumed search for the Mexicans
who last night beaded across the
Rio a,ican sida
-..r, arms afid supplies In vic.
lation of the neutrality laws, 10 iesn
the Federal forces at some point I'm
known, or to harass the rebel gar
rison at Juarez across the river from
Ell Paso.
So far as the American cavalry
officers could learn in the course OF
the night, the plot was to capture
a corral of horses and saddles at
Ysleta, thirteen miles east of here
and about mie from the river bank.
and rush them across.
In some way this part of the plan
miscarried, for the rush to the other
side, as reported by the citizens Of
Ysleta, was precipitated before many,
If any, of the horses could be stolen
The alarm reached General Hugh
l.. Scott, In command at Fort Bliss,
about 10 o'clock last night. Ranchers
and others whose homes are scatter
ed along the road near Ysleta tele-
phoned into the city to find out the
cause of the unusual number of au-
tomobiles, some of which were covS
cred with canvas and apparently
carried boxes.
Counts of the number of these va
ried from ten to fifty. but inquiry at
Ysleta early in the morning indi-
Gated that there were more than
hundred.
Mrs. Mary O'Neil, the night tele-
phone operator at Ysleta, saw six
Of them, seemingly laden with boxes
under their canvas covers, turn to-
ward the river. They were without
lights and she gave it as her opin-
ion. based on knowledge of the roads
and the lay of the land generally,
that the machines disappeared in
some Of the numerous corrals in
Ysleta, and there were unloaded
Five of them she saw later, this
was at o'clock this morning when,
with lights out and their loads dis.
charged, they suddenly reappeared
and dashed toward Ell Paso.
The only soldier so far known to
have seen any of the alleged Huerta
recruits was Corporal Kaufman, of
Troop A, 18th Cavalry. The cor
poral has been stationed at a viii
lage east of Ysleta and when the
alarm sounded he was despatched to
Ysleta to guide other troops being
ru5ned TO Lnat point
He arrived ahead of the reinforce
ments and lay in a ditch, from which
he says he saw the detachments of
about fifteen men each make a rush
toward the river. When the other
soldiers arrived they had disappeared
and while there was bright starlight,
it was still too dark to trail the fugi-
tives.
All night the Americans searched
among the bushes and stunted COM
mon wood trees which dot the sandy
plain, watched the three principal
fords between Ysleta and Socorro, a
hamlet three miles east of Ysleta,
but did not catch sight of their
quarry.
To all appearances the latter has
escaped According to Mrs. O'Neil
and the few citizens who could be
routed from their beds last night,
strange Mexicans had been collect
ing there since Tuesday. They strag
gled in in ones and twos and threes
and were reticent about their busi-
ness. Refugees are not uncommon in
this part of the country, but the
number was unusual.
General Francisco Villa, command
ing the rebel forces and now at
Juarez, received an intimation of the
situation at Ysleta early in the
evening and sent small detachments
of his men east along the Mexican
bank of the river to capture the in
vaders.
They did capture ten men, but six
of these proved to be harmless poems,
and the other four were held for fur
ther investigation. Villa during the
night sent out reinforcements, and
as they are mounted he said today
that they should not have great diff
ficulty catching up with the dis
mounted recruits. A report that
horses were waiting for the latter on
the Mexican side proved unfounded.
The animals seen on the other bank
numbered but few. and evidently had
strayed from some ranch to the river
for water.
General villa said he hoped that
the recruits got across the river, for
IL the Americans captured them they
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