The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-04-23
general HERRERA IS
KILLED BY own MEN
RECOMMENDING PARTY MIS-
TAKEN FOR VlLLAlSTAS SHOT
DOWN BY MACHINE GUNS.
SEIGE OF MATAM0ROS RAISED
Matamoros Is No Longer Point of
Tension on the Mexican Border.
Carloads of Ammunition Pass
Through EI Paso for Mexico.

Laredo, Tex.-General Macclovio
Herrera, the Carranza military COM
mander of NueyO Laredo, is dead, as
is his orderly, while several wounded
soldiers are in the hospital in the
Mexican city. General Herrera was
the victim of bullets fired by his own
men, who mistook him for Villa Of
fiCer at the time Carranza soldiers
were accommodating upon word of the
advance of the Villa army toward
NueYO Laredo.
General MacloYio Herrera, who was
killed last week near NuevO Laredo,
was one of the most persistent revolu-
tionists of recent Mexican history,
noted for his bravery and his demo-
cratic simplicity. His brother, Gen
eral Luis Herrera, also is a Carranza
commander, and his father, General
Jesus Maria Herrera, at present is in
Vera Cruz with Carranza.
Surrounded by a guard of soldiers,
the body of General MaccloVio Herrera,
the Carranza general and commander
of the forces of Nuevo Laredo who
was Saturday killed by his own ma
chine gun men aboard an armored
train when he was mistaken for a
Villa officer, will be sent via Calves
ton to Herrera's wife, who is in Vera
Cruz.
General Vicente Davilla has been
selected as military commander to sue
coed General Herrera.
Suppressed excitement still prevails
in Nueyo Laredo on account of the re-
ports received that the Villa army is
still advancing and all the trenches
about the town are occupied, while
1900 Carranza soldiers are encamped
in the hills two miles west of Nuevo
Laredo.
Ammunition in CARROTS began to
pass Saturday through Ell Pas0, Texas,
destined for the Villa army engaging
the CarranZa advance below Irapuato,
Guanajuato. 1t was not considered
likely that Villa would press his at
tacks on Obregon's positions at Ce,
laya until more munitions arrived.
AS far as could be learned from
local reports, General Obregon has not
ventured far from Celaya or yet at.
tackled Villas base at Irapuato
The lower border across from
Brownsville, Texas, was cleared OF
Villa troops Saturday when the last
of seven troop trains left Reynosa,
sixty.five miles west Of Matamoros, for
Monterey. With the retreat well I'm.
der way General E. P. Nafarrate, com
mander Of the Carranza frontier di'
vision, is reoccupying the border
towns evacuated before the Villa ad
vance a month ago. The Matamoros
forces are half depleted.
Vera Cruz, Mex-Five thousand OF
the enemy dead were counted during
the movement northward from Ce
laya, Six thousand prisoners and for
ty field pieces were captured.
This is General Obregons summary
Of the fighting about Celaya, where
he reported Thursday he had gained
decisive victory over the forces OF
General Villa. The ringing of church
bells and the parading of soldiers and
citizens conveyed the news of the re
ported Carranza victory to the public
Vera Cruz.-Consul Burns, Gal
weston: Villa was completely defeat
ed, losing all his artillery north Of
Celaya, Guanjuanato state. This vic
tory is complete and decisive.
'Urueta.'"