The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-30
Rebel Officers at Chihuahua
Are Anxious as 10 Fate Of
Remnant Of Fighting Force
SITUATION REGARDED SERIOUS
News Of Heavy Re-|nforcements
for Federal Commander VEL
asco Causes Misgivings

Chihuahua, March SO.-Today the
Constitutionalist sympathizeIs and
rebel officers in Chihuahua are again
most anxious as to the fa.e of General
Villa and his remnant of 1900 men
who marched IL Torreon to engage ~
the revolutions first decisive battle.
There has been no news of Villas
progress for many hours, and army Of
ficers here fear that the rebel forces
are in a most dangerous situation.
Reports of heavy Endorsements
being rushed TO relieve Federal Com
mander Velasco were received here
with misgivings.
For seven days villa waged battle
against Torreon. For six days the
fight was the bitterest and the loss Of
life the most tremendous i'm the history
OF Mexico, Judging from dispatches
from the front and stories told .oIay
by some of the 5SS wounded i'm he
hospitals here. According to the
wounded, the rebel vanguard ran into
a trap at Gomez Palacio, which cost
them dearly in men and ammunition.
Heavy Loss is Admitted.
Another telegram admits a rebel loss
in the last six days of nine hundred
killed and wounded and places the
federal loss at two thousand. AS there
aro already at chihuahua five hundred
wounded. the report of the rebel losses
is thought TO have been minimized.
Among the rebel wounded is General
Gomas Trina.
II is said that private soldiers made
prisoners are being taken into the reb-
el ranks. but their officers are eXecut-
ed, unless they take the oath of al
legiance TO the Constituencies cause.
All irregular troops in the federal gar
risons are executed upon capture.
Desperate Uphill Fight.
Juarez. March 30.-There were No
reports from Gen. Villa this mornins,
and it is assumed the hghting at Tor
reon continues.
villa, If not defeated at Torrcon, is
having desperate uphill light, This
opinion s based on the absence of ad O.
vices from impartial observers at the
front, the statement Of the Mexican
federal consul here and stories of Ann
orleans from chihuahua and other
Mexican cities. According 90 the Fed
eral Consul at Eagle Pass, Texas the
rebels were drawn into traps in IA
bull ring yesterday and mines were
exploded under them.
Carranzs Gets Rousng Welcome
Juarez, Mex, March 30-Gcneral
Venustiano Carranza, first chief of the
rebels, was welcomed to Juarez yes
terday.
In the last two weeks the general
has ridden horseback for five hundred
miles and in the last two months he
has travelled two thousand miles IN
the same way. He looked living con-
tradiction to stories that he was fee
BILE and that he had constant recourse
10 stimulants in order to bear up his
appearance also branded many litho-
graphs of him as false, for they madc
him appear old and rather thin. He Is
a big man physically, and, dcspit" ms
siNty-fiVe years looks as If he c"uId
still hold his own i'm a wrestling match
or bout with the gloves
The streets We're gayly decorated
and tonight the triumpnai arches blaz-
ed with many colored inoandesceat
bulbs. When the plaza was reached
by General CarranZa on his march into
the city, he was wildly cheered'
Three Americans Freed.
Washington. March SO.-CharSe
O'Shaughnessy reported that three
Americans. Goldschmidt, Donahue an"
Crossthv,aite charged with aiding the
rebels, had been freed by Huerta'
-AcE TO Jury.