The evening world., 1914-04-04
V|LLALEADS ARMY
IN NEW ATTACK ON
vELASCO'S FORCES
While TOrreon Receivers After
Six Days Battle Rebels
Pursue Federals.
STORY OF CITY'S FALL.
Dramatic Scenes Amid Death
and Desolation as Victors
Took Possession.
STORY OF CrTY'S FALL.


Took Possession.
ToRREON. Mexico. April 3, via T.,
Paso. Tex. April This city. from
which Con. RefuGio Velasoo and most
OF the uninJEed of his command fed
yssesrdAy. was occupied BY the Rebels
In force to-day and the work Of burn.
Ing the bodies Of tho dead, clearing
away the wrsckaSe " she'll shattered
sdoos walls. street barbados and
barbed wir~ sntAngiements was be.
gun.
While vnla took Q large number Of
prisoners vslasDo escaped nom the
canyon do Huarachs with q oonsad.
ssAbis proportion OF his force. He
was pursued last night by Con. Her
nandez. who to-day reported that no
had fought q small rear guard en-
gaxsmsnt with tho rstreating force
and later Oen. villa with reinforce.
ments Ten here 70 make an ATTEMPT
70 capture or annihilate It
Non.oombatants here with whom
the Associated Press correspondent
talked to-day. estimated Vslasco's
garrison did not number more than
5000 men. OF whom $500 were killed
or wounded. When vsiasoo ned he
len behind In the military hospital
800 wounded.
AMERICAN CONSUL PRoTGcro
so SPANiARpo.
When he rebsls entered the p,aos
they found only one nurse. Dorsshsa
Dc " Crus. In attendance. She said
that the other nurses followed the
army.
The patients were In . high atate
Of anxiety. for they had been told tina,
villa took no prisoners. They wsrs
rsassursd BY H. 8. Cunard. Cummins
the British vice-Consul at Comes
Palacio. who entered the hospital
drst, climbing over bodies Of the
wounded who had died there. The
British Official announced that Wills
had assured him none Of the wounded
would DO harmed. Those who had thu
strength raised themselves on theiI
elbows from their pallets on the fioo,
and from their cots and cried a feebl,
viva villa"
The nurse was soothing dying pa
tisnt. who with his last breath yoinee
tho cheering and then sank back dead
Persons who say they were sy,
witnesses declare that vslasco sum
marily executed three Spaniard
whom he accused of firing on hi
troops. Tho wife Of ono Of those
Lotero Lopez, attempted to shield he
husband and tho Same bullet kiiist
both.
| Il was reported that Gen. vsIase
himself was wounded. but THE 70
port, like the one that no went In
sans In the trenches, could not b
confirmed and the impression pre-
walls that no 10 tsili At the head 0
Of HE troops. Two Federal osnsr
ole wsrs killed and three woundsc
villa was In his headquarters q
Come Palacio Thursday night. whel
Torre0n fol-. Almost up TO the hou
Of the Federal night ne could not &c
the end OF the battle. and that morn
Ing had telephoned for bigger cannon
for II seemed a. n his artillery wa
inadequate 70 daslodge the snom
from their positions In Huarachs.
His black. thick hair was MUSE
and standing straight up for the mo,
part. and q six day stubble Of bear
was on his face. News Of tho evacu
alton had reached him and he smile,
, fairly purring his answers to que,
tons by newspapermen.
"Tsll the public that after slsvs
days Of fighting the Fsdsrals svaeu
stsd rerreon. leaving their dead an
wounded behind them. That 10 all
he concluded.
ooriss. are told here OF alleged In
? suls to the American flag psrpstrats
, by Fsdsrsls soldiers who wsrs On
raoed BY ruN,ers that Q large mum
|. Der Of Americans were In Villa
' army. A. Q matter OF fact thsI
!. yvsrs but nine. None Of them WI
killed or wounded.
i DIR. A. A. Carr. an American res
!. dent Of Torreon. was the only ply,
!. ician on duty when tn rebels too
J. the town. He transferred his sci
/: vices to Villa, and the latter ir
|; structed him 70 continue his work |
!: tho hospital. The formal entry Int
|; the city was without ceremony. III
= victory has greatly raised the spiri
/; Of the soldiers. who have CON
I through a trying campaign and WI
now talk confidently OF the takir
!. Of the national capital itself.
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