The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-09-02
-Four Companions Also Pursued
Into Foothills and Killed.
ACTION FOLLOWS RANCH RAID
Desperate Battle With United States
Civilians, Customs Officers and
Troopers-Huerta Aide Had Escap-
ed Custody at FL Paso.

Ell PasO, Tex, Sept. 1.-Genera]
Pascual Orozco, prominent military
leader in Mexico's many revolutions OF
the last five years, was killed in a
fight with a posse Of American civil
ians, customs officers and troopers OF
the Thirteenth United States cavalry
according to government reports re
ceived here.
The battle took. place in Green riv
er canyon Of the High Lonesome
mountains in Culberson county, Tex.
following a raid on the Dick Love
ranch. Orozco and four companions
were pursued. from the Sierra Blanca
country into the foothills.
How desperately they fought was
shown by four bullet wounds in the
body positively identified, according
to reports, as that of the Huerta gen,
eral.
At the home of General Orozco's
family here the report of his death
could not be confirmed.
No Comment by Huerta.
General Victoriano Huerta would
make no comment when informed of
the reported death of his former chief
officer
All the bodies Of the raiders have
been ordered shipped to Van Horn,
Tex. An undertaken from this city
is en- route to take charge of the body
said to be that of General Orozco.
General Orozco was the son Of a
small storekeeper in Chihuahua. When
he reached manhood he became a
'bulliOn conductor" and with his par
ty of guards escorted the pack trains
loaded with bullion from the mines in
Chihuahua through the bandit-infest-
ed hills to the railroad.
1t was in this work that he first
achieved a reputation for bravery and
skill with weapons.
Orozco was one of the first to join
Francisco Madero when the latter or
ganized his revolt against President
Porfirio Daz, in 1910. Orozco took
with his company of bullion guards as
a nucleus, soon raised the most ef-
fective fighting force under Madero's
banner.
When Madero became president
Orozco accompanied him to Mexico
City. but it was not long before a dis
agreement arose over large sums of
money Orozco alleged to be due him
and his father, Colonel Orozco.
Orozco abandoned his allegiance to
Madero and again took to the hills,
taking the majority of his men who
had followed him through the Madero
campaigns with him.
! In Huerta's Ranks.
With the fall of Madero, Orozco
joined the adherents of Huerta and
became one of the most active of the
military chiefs of the latter. He took
part in scores of engagements and
skirmishes in Chihuahua, Durango,
Coahuila and Neuvo Leon.
His band finally was broken last
August with the advance on Mexico
City of the Constituencies under
Ohregon, Jesus Carranza, Pablo Con
Zales and Gutierrez, while Villas
troops held the road to his old haunts
to the north. He again slipped
through the lines, however, and made
his way into the United States.
With the arrival in the United
States of General Huerta, Orozco
joined his former chief and accom-.
panied him on the journey to Ell
Paso, which eliminated in the arrest
by United States officials. After be-
ing released on bond he again escap
ed few nights later, and, it is sup.
posed, has been in the vicinity where