The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1914-04-10
REBELS BURN THE
DEAD IN I0RREON
Federal Losses Are Now EstI-
mated at | 800.
ONLY ONE NURSE REMAINS.
villa Declared To Have Been the
Spirit OF the BattIe-How He
Buoyed Up the Courage
OF His Men.

Torreon, Mex This city, from
which Gen. Refugio velasco and most
of the uninjured OF his command fed
was occupied by the rebels In force
and the work of burning the bodies of
the dead, clearing away the wreckage
Of shell-shattered abode walls. street
barbados and barbed wire entangle-
ments was begun.
When villa took considerable num-
Der of prisoners Velasco escaped from
the Canyon de Huarche with con-
siderable proportion of his force. He
was pursued by Gen. Hernandez, who
reported that he had fought small
rear guard engagement with the re-
treating force and later Gen. Villa
with endorsements left here to make
an attempt to capture or annihilate 1t.
Non-combatants here, estimated
Velasco's garrison did not number
more than five thousand men. of whom
.l,508 were killed or wounded. When
Welasco fed he left behind in the mill
tary hospital two hundred wounded.
When the rebels entered the place
they found only one nurse, Dorothea
de la Cruz, in attendance. She said
that the other nurses followed the
army.
Wounded Cheer Villa.
The patients were in a high state Of
anxiety, for they had been told that
Villa took no prisoners. They were.
treasured by P. S. Cunard Cummings,
the British Consul, at Gomez Palacio,
who entered the hospital first, climbing
over the bodies of the wounded who
had died theNe. The air was foul with
the odor CT dried. blood. The British
official announced that villa had as
sured him none of the wounded would
be harmed. Those who had the
strength rained themselves on their
elbows from pallets on the floor and
from their cots and cried feeble
"viva Villa.
The nurse was soothing "a dying pa
tient, when with Lbs last breath, Joined
the cheering and then sank back dead.
Persons who say they were eye-wit-
executed three Spaniards whom he ac-
cused Of firing on his troops. The wife
of one of these, Iaotero Lopez, at
tempted to shield her husband and
the same bullet killed both.
Three hundred and fifty Spaniards,
including women and children, took
refuge in a bank building under the
protection Of American Consul Ulmer,
who remained in town throughout the
battle. The insurgents have shown
no disposition to harm those Spaniards
who are known to have remained
neutral. Other foreigners, including
fifty-five Chinese, Syrians and.
Austrians and 100 Americans were I'M
harmed so far as could be learned.
1t was reported that Gen. Velasco
himself was wounded, but this report,
like the one that he went insane in
the trenches, could not be confirmed
and the impression prevails that he is
still at the head of his troops. Two
federal generals were killed and three
wounded.
on Verge Of Mutiny.
1t is said here that velasco's re-
treat was brought about by his losses
IN the night assaults. made by the
rebels and indications that his sol
diers, worn out by the prolonged hight
ing and fearful of the cruelties which
they were told Villa practiced on the
wounded prisoners, were on the verge
of mutiny.