New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-27
CARRANZA TO
FIGHT VILLA
Continued from page 1

The present extent Of the damage tc
The railway Vera Cruz t. Mexico GltyD
is not yet fully known. Two freight
trains have been turned loose, one IN
each direction, and the track torn ue
over considerable stretches. There IS
notbin0 definite as TO the destruction
of bridges, though such destruction Is
stated 10 have occurred. If the bridges
are not destroyed and no resistance -
offered. railway officials think they may
be able 10 run trains in three or 1our
1T is known that the destruction
was the work Of revolution SITS, eX,
Federals under Higenio Agullar ana
BENJAMIN Argunedo. The size OF TINS
force is yariously estimated at from
1000 TO 5000 men. Candigo Agullar
CsrraDza general commanding forces
outs de Vera CRUZ has sent l,5OO men,
practically all he had at Soledao' on
trains in that direction. Presumably
thev will be joined by others rom
Cordoba and Orizaba. Agents OF WIS
have been here recently conIerring
IS. TIA ex-Federal officers and furnish
ny them with funds.
ar the break in the railway can DC
sort omen n will have the important
,rect Of isolating General Jesus Car
ronza and the $4,000 troops he took
d, fhe Isthmus to garrison the states
~ me southwestern part of the re-
In response to Admiral Fletcher's
recommendations the battlesh ps Tex
gs Minnesota and Rhode Island nave
been ordered 20 Vera Cruz. They
nrohsbIv will relieve the Arkansas,
DaIayare and North Dakota. Later
II Is proposed to withdraw the Kansas
and Virginia, leaving the Texas, Mime
ota. Rhode Island and Vermont IN
Mexican waters.
Colonel Franklin J. Moses, COM
nander Of the first brigade OF United
States Marines az Vera Cruz, died TO-
fsv of pneumonia on board the hos
pital shin solace,
rBy Telegraph 10 The TriDane.I
n Paso, Tex, Sept 26.-~Rejecting
Inc urgent appeals of Carranza sym
pathizers in Mexico City and at ooruei
POINTS that he desist from warlike prep
,-ation and agree to arbitration, Cen
oral Francisco Villa to-day sent two
trainloads of cannon, including twenty
Mo feld guns, from chihuahua to Tor
con. He continued the rapid mobiliza,
+ion of troops at Torreon and started
evolutionary forces south and east 70
meet Carranza forces reported adVanc-
NC from Monterey and Aguas Cali
entes. Although Torreon is on the
do of the State of Durango, which Is
controlled by the Arietta brothers, VINO
are In league with Carranza, Villa APP
parently is ignoring that state and is
erecting his whole attention to the
VILLA him self nm
chihuahua to-day, and the mobluza-
tion at Torreon was being looked after
~ General Felipe Angeles, who accom-
panied he artillery trains to the south
THAT war is on in earnest oetWee-
Villa and CarranZa in northern Mexico
there now is no room for doubt. Never
before in a Mexican revolt have prepa
rations for battle been carried on WIT
such haste, and yet in such thorough
manner. r.
far large quantities of additional am
munition, and in Juarez supplies tol
tho army were quickly gathered OF
trains. Villa already has twelve car
loads Of ammunition stored IN mana!
places. His army is said to be abun
DAINTY provisioncd, money appears u
ID abundant with the northern leader
and it is generally believed that eX
Federals Of the Huerta regime are aid
nr Villa with funds.
No trains except military trains nov
un between Juarez and Torreon,
train from Chihuahua City to-day be
INC the last passenger train that VII
he permitted to come out OF Mexico.
An appeal was made to-day by Car
rama TO the American State Depart
ment for a restoration Of the embargo
on arms, according TO official dispatche
TO the Carranza consulate here.
General Aware Obregon, Carranza'
envoy 10 Villa and chief commander 0
Carranza's forces, is not in Chihuahuj
City and is not in Torreon. Arrival
to-day from both cities are emphatic II
saving that General 0bregon certainl.
IA not in either OF the Villa strong
holds, and t<ey say there IS . decided
air of mystery concerning the Carranzi
commander in military circles. Ths
Obregon has been executed at Iorreoi
IS declared tonight by people who hav'
come out Of that city.
IL also is said that members Of Car
ranza's staff and newspaper mar
ramed O'Reilly, who was friendly will
Carranza, having been with hin
through the west coast campaign, arr
missing O'Reiliy is representing Tit
Associated Press.
Following UP their victory over tn
Carfanza forces under General Hill
near Santa Barbara yesterday, Gov
rrn6r Maytorena's Yaqui Indians, aug
mented BY cearlv . thousand volun
feers, to-day pursued and harasset
he retreating Carranzistas. A force
II nearly one thousand Of Hills men
aafooned near Santa Cruz when the
engine II the troop train stalled, were
attacked to-day by Maytorena. a relief
force sent from Naco drove of the
Yaquis, and the Hill command came on
10 the border General Hill will make s
tand in Naco, Sonora, To await rein.
loreements from Sinaloa, Cauanear and
ARus Prieta. The general impression is