New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-24
Relief Train Reaches Is
peranza, Admiral How
ard Reports.
VERA CRUZ LINE
TO CAPITAL CUT
Red Cross Funds and Supplies
ExhauSted-PopulatiOn Only
Week from Starvation.

Washington, June pa relief train
carrying Villa troops has reached the
American colony besieged by the
Yaqui Indians at Esperanto, Mexico,
according to a dispatch from Admiral
Howard to the Navy Department late
tonight Admiral Howard also re-
ported that he had sailed from Quay
mas, where the Colorado has been since
Sunday, TO Sobari Bay.
This relief train proceeded to Esper-
ANA, according to the Admirals dis
patch. for the protection Of foreign
settlers. Ii reported also the raldlnS
of a Mexican ranch near CocoTlt by the
Indians, who killed two Mexican men
and c.rried off two women.
Admiral Howard chilled attention TO
the fact that over month ago military
officials here had informed the Amerl-
can settlers that guards would be fur.
nished TO escort them to place OF
( safety. and tina. it would be dangerous
for them TO remain. Then as now,
however, they refused to depart.
The local newspapers ut Guaymas
speak in a most friendly maner con-
miral Howard and the Villa com
mander. and express the hope that
no landing will be made by United
States marines, as the same protection
will be extended by the army to for
. eigners as TO MeXlcans.
/ Taking a leaf from the laqui Ind
ians. bandits south of Vera Cruz have
fired on a train and killed nineteen
persons. according to a dispatch re-
ceived to-day at the State Department
from Consul Canada, at Vera Cruz.
The belief is that the attack was made
BY Zapatistas. The ambush occurred
on Monday. but news of it did not ar
rive at Vera Cruz until to-day. Consul
Canada also reported that the Mexican
Railway had been cut between Vera
Cruz and Mexico City.
The desperate plight of the Ameri-
cans in the Naqui Valley was descr ped
in long report from Consul Slmpich,
at Nogales. The few who have left the
valley and reached Nogales, he says,
are destitute. Others still there have
appealed for transportation. Three
who begged transportation TO Sacra-
mento. Cal, declared that their barns
and crops had been burned by the
Indians and their cattle driven into
the mountains. Nogales is overrun
with homeless, hungry and desperate
people," Simpich declared. In his re-
port he also said that Governor May
torena OF Sonora had assured him on
Sunday that the Villista forces were in
complete control of the situation.
A report that a military train was
sent from Emplame yesterday with
200 troops TO escort a construction
party Of two Americans and sixteen
Nexicans was received by Secretary
Of the Navy Daniels to-day from Ad-
miral Howard, who is in command Of
the Colorado relief forces.
This construction party had been re-
pairing a bridge over the Iaqui River
near Corral, about 100 kilometres from
Guaymas, but the railroad decided to
discontinue the WORK.
Indians Attack Withdrawn.
The latest reports in the hands of the
Navy Department mentioned fighting
on June 20 between the Indians and
an escort of eighty soldiers on q work
train. in which twenty-four soldiers
were killed, eight wounded and twenty
two were missing. The losses Of the
Indians are unknown. These dis
patches doubtless refer to the same
ambush winch was described carrier IN
the week. as occurring on Sunday.
Letters from General Felipe Ange-
les. the most famous Of the military
commanders supporting Villa and also
from Villa himself, denying that any
break had occurred between them were
received to-day by the confidential
agency Of the provisional govern
ment here. Friends of Villa denied
reports that General Angeles might
be picked as the strong man for the
situation. They declared that he had
no other aspirations than TO continue
| to support his present chief. Emanuel
, Bonilla, one of Villas agents here.
gave out the following dispatch to-
day from General Villa:
you can make a wide and emphatic
declaration that the relations between
General Angeles and me are very
cordial and that there has been not
the slightest disagreement between US.
Learning that a member of General
y Angeles's family was i'll | gave the
general leave of absence TO hasten
to the bedside"
Angeles Denies Break.
Also the following from Angeles:
"General Villa and | are the best of