The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-01-17
SALAZAR TAKEN
WHILE PLAYING
CARDS On TRAIN
Mexican Desperate Who
Ravaged Mormon Colonies
in the Hands of u. S.
Authorities.
SEVERAL CHARGES
AGAINST PRISONER
May Be Held Responsible fol
Putting Thomas Fountain
to Death While in Com
mand of Madero Forces.

of the border authorities to round up
the Mexican federal generals who es-
capped from Ojinaga, Mexico, when the
rebels occupied that place, today re-
suited in the arrest at Sanderson, Tex,
from train while en- route to join
the federal garrison III Mexico oppo'
site Eagle Pass, Tex.
Salazar is the seventh Mexican gem
eral to come into the custody of the
United States authorities. The roster
Of the generals is:
Captured while trying to get back to
Mexico, General Salazar.
In custody on the way from Preside
to El Paso, Generals Mercado Castro,
Tanda, Orpinal, Aduana and Romero.
Still missing, but believed TO be hid
ing in Texas, Generals Pascual Orozco,
Marcello Caraveo and Antonio Rojas,
Robbed the MOrmOns.
Saazar, who achieved distinction
through his raids on the Mormon colo
nies in northern Mexico, IS wanted at
Santa Fe, n, NJ, where he was indicted
IN the federal court ON charges Of con-
spiracy 10 smuggle arms and ammunl-
ton into Mexico. He was arrested in
FL Paso on that Indictment, but he for
feited his bond. Orozco is also under
Indictment, but never was arrested
Saazar was playing cards III the
train when captured He at once ad
mitted his identity, and was taken to
Maria to be put under bond for his ap-
pearance in Santa Fe. The military
rest him and remove him to El Paso
with the other federal soldiers and
generals who escaped to this country.
More Arrests Expected.
The capture of Salazar convinced the
border patrol that OroZco and Caraveo,
possibly with other soldiers and Off
GERS. were hiding In Texas, and more
arrests were expected. Salazar at first
said jokingly that he thought Orozco
had been killed at Ojinaga, but later
he admitted that all the generals had
escaped.
it appeared that Salazar and Orozeo,
with a small command, after escaping
from Ojinaga, rode eastward along the
Rio Grande until they reached point
on the border near Sanderson, where the
railroad is not far inland. In the mean
time fictitious message had been sent
to Mexico City that the federal volun-
teer generals were in the state of Goa
hula, en- route to San Luis Potosi.
Refugees on March.
All the $500 Mexican federal soldiers
and the 1000 women refugees who
sought safety in the United States aft
er the capture Of Oiinaga, had left Pre-
sidio today for their march to Marfa,.
from which point they are to be trans
ported by railroad to Fort Bliss, near
El Paso.
The ragged army was scattered for
sixty seven miles along the mountain
United States cavalrymen. General
Salvador Mercado. until recently Huer"
ta y military chief in northern Mexico,
rode III an automobile with General
Francisco Castro. Other federal gen
erals rode on horses. The common sol
diers and the women refugees, many Of
them carrying children IN their arms,
made the march afoot.
Major McNamee Of the United States
border patrol rode at the head of the
long column, with an escort of three
troops from the Fourteenth cavalry,
while two troops brought up the rear.
Beasts Burdened.
Each of the hungry horses which
were brought across the river with the
routed Mexicans, bore at least two
riders, usually man and a woman,
Burros carried domestic belongings
packed in bundles on both sides, with
children perched on top.
Despite their ragged appearance
which suggested only misery and hun
ger, the soldiers and women were in
merry spirits. Now and then groups of
soldiers broke into song, while others
at the stopping places ate with great
eagerness the rations supplied by the
American troops. Tho whole process
sion, winding through the mountain
passes, was a picture of primitive
movement Of people before the days of
railroads,
1t will be Monday night before the
refugees arrive at Maria to board tho
ten trains which await there to carry
them to FL Paso. Tonight they had
reached Shafter, twenty-five miles from
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