Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-01-17
VILLAS REBELS RUN
HUERTA'S SOLDIERS
ACROSS THE BORDER
FEDERALS EVACUATE OJINAeA
TO AVOID MASSACRE-REeElS
HOLD NORTHERN MEXICO.
TAKE PRISONERS TO FORT Bliss
American Patrol Takes Charge OF
$500 Men, Six Generals, 2oO,Coo
Rounds of Ammunition and 1,5Oo
Civilians Who Crossed Border to
Escape From Rebels.

$500 refugees. driven out of Olinaga
by General Francisco Villas insurgent
forces were put in readiness Tuesday
for a sixty -seven-mile march afoot to
Marta, Texas The soldiers will be
interned indefinitely at Fort Bliss.
At Maria, the nearest railroad sta
ton, the federal army, which sought
asylum in the United States after Its
defeat by the insurgents, will BE-
guarded by the border patrol until il
can be put aboard trains for Fort
Bliss, where il will be held pending
final disposition by the war depart
ment Among the civilians are 1927
women, as officially counted by Major
McNamee. They also have 900 fed
eral army horses and mules.
Major McNamee sent cavalrymeR
along the road 10 select and provision
camps at the points where the stops
will be made. Food supplies will be
issued through the army
Preside, Textile Mexican federal
army with It's line generals, eVac-
uated Ojinaga, Mexico, Saturday
night. The triumphant rebel forces
under General Francisco villa imme-
diately occupied the Village.
General Saliva, or Mercado. who was
Huerta's CHEZ military commander.
crossed the river and surrendered 80
Major McNamee Of the United States
army
The defeat Of the federal army fol
lowed only a few hours fighting in
which the rebels, beginning at suit
down, started to close in on the be
sieged garrison with cannon and rifle
fire
General Castro and General Mer-
cado of the federaiS saw the assault
vas to be nothing less than mas
sacre. The federals only had left fifty
rounds of ammunition for each man.
/ The generals therefore gave orders 10
evacuate.
All the federal soldiers and their Of
ficers who could scramble to the
American side did so. The others ran
in all directions.
General Pascual Orozco, command
ing federal volunteers, threatened
with summary execution by Villa, was
the first to cross. 1t was believed he
had escaped into the mountains Of
Texas
After the fighting had been in prog
ress about five hours, seven wagons
toadad with docurranfe hotonyfpg tc
the Huerta government came over
and were captured by the United
States border patrol.
Major McNamee Immediately order
ed all cayalrymen to meet any emer-
gency. Women, children and wound
ed soldiers had been crossing in num-
bers, but the apparent advance of the
rebels gave reason to believe a great
er rush across the border was immi-
nent.
For five hours the sharp flashes of
the rebel fire had been seen drawing
closer to the federal intrenchments.
Among the federals were nine gem
erals-Castro. Mercado, Orozco, Man
uel Landa, Ynez Salaza~, Antonio
Rojas, Bias Ocpina, Lozaro Alavis and
Rogue Gomez.
Defeat of the federal army at this
point marks the most important rebel
victory of the present revolution. 1t
leaves the rebels in possession of
virtually all of the north of Mexico.
Mercado. Castro and Lanaa were
the only remaining commanders Of
the federal regulars. The other gen
erals commanded volunteers and bad
been threatened by Villa with death
should they be captured
Led by General Francisco Villa, lust
before shutdown the rebel army ad-
vancins from the southeast and west
drove back the federal outposts, cap-
tured fifty men and opened heavy
rifle fire on the federal trenches back
ed by shraPnel from the rebel field
guns.
Twenty-eight hundred Mexican fed
eral soldiers, six generals. 200 900
rounds of ammunition, two cannon.
four large field pieces and 1900 civil
ian refugees are now in the custody
of the United States army border ma
troll as the result of the federal evac-
uation Of Oiinaga, Mexico. and the oc-
cupation of the Mexican village bv
General Francisco Villas rebel forces
Saturday.
Urgent requests for the immediate
removal Of soldiers and refugees to
some other place we're sent by Major
McNamee to the war department
through General Bliss.
General Landa said he was certain
all the federal troops escaped.
Charges of cowardice were made
against Orozco. Salazar and Roias
General Mercado said the generals
abandoned their troops at the begin.
ming of the battle and thus weakened
the federal defense
Generals Orozco and Saiazar as
capped to the mountains.
The only generals who quit the hat
tie field with honor. General Mercado
said, were those who accompanied the
federal army across the Rio Grapde
General Mercado reiterated that Tho
federals were compelled to eyacuate
hpC1uep of lack Of amununit;o,