The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1914-01-16
OJlNACA IS TAKEN
Federal Generals Find Safety
Across the Border.
VILLA EXECUTING HUNDREDS

Gen. Caravco Is Among Generals In
accounted for-Luis Terrazas, Third,
Is Missing-Major Mendoza Proves
Hero and Is KiIIed-Rebels Capture
40o-AII to Die.
PRESIDE, TEXAS = 1t is now
generally agreed that Generals Oroz-
CO, Jose Y. Salazar and Antonio RoJas,
the federal volunteer generals most
wanted by Villa, have, with 300 or 4OO
ioyal followers made their escape. 1t
is also said now that they were joined
by General MarveIo CaraVeO, another
federal volunteer general. CaraVeO
was reported to be among those who
had surrendered to Major McNamee,
but when a census was taken IN the
morning, he was not found among the
federals who had sought asylum in the
American camp at Preside.
Villa Hunting Federal Generals.
When it became known that Salaz2-
and his fellow federal volunteer OIL
GERS, who are considered by the con-
on whose heads a price has been put,
had escaped, Villa sent detachmentS
in every direction with instructions to
Overtake them and capture them
either dead or alive at any cost. Some
of these attachments have returned to
Ojinaga reporting failure, while others
are still securing the hills with the
AL, fI1n IN -NHy0 n q
men.
Major Luis Terrazas, third, grandson
of General Terrazas, the Chihuahua
land baron, is missing.
Mendoza Proves Hero.
Major Mendoza of the federals was
killed while making a stand at the
custom house on the bank of the Rio
Grande, while holding at bay detach-
ment of rebels intent upon cutting Off
the retreat of the main body of fed
erals. Had it not been for MondOZa's
brilliant work, the slaughter of fugi-
tives along the banks of the river
would have been terrible.
The rebels captured between 800
and 400 prisoners at night, the most
of them volunteers and hundreds Of
these have been executed.
Villa has refused to allow foreigners
to visit Oiinaga The constant bari.
of rifle and revolver heard across the
international boundary tells of the
work of wholesale execution of fed
eral prisoners.
Entire Army Deserted
That the entire army deserted is
borne out by the fact that hundreds of
belts were full of ammunition while
very few were wounded. These hun
dreds of deserters are nearly freez-
ing to death and the question of food
is important.
General Mercado, the federal COM
mander, in an interview claims that
Villa won by fiuke as the federal
Outposts rushing in for ammunition
caused a panic among the federals
in the trenches
Generals Stole Money and Decamped.
r. F. Flores, confidential man to
OrOzco, appeared on this side and de-
clares that all federal generals held a
conference prior to an attack and
agreed to desert. He is the man who
took $4,000 to Ojinaga last week to
pay off the federal soldiers He claims
that the officers divided up most of
the money and that the soldiers got
but little
Federal Paymaster Shot.
Guadalupe Sanchez, a federal pay
master in an automobile, was shot be-
tween here and Maria by a United
States soldier while trying to escape
to the railroad in an automobile. The
soldier called on him to halt, but the
automobile speeded up and the sentry
fired, hitting the paymaster in the
back. The wounded officer will die.