Omaha daily bee., 1915-12-14
VILLA SOLDIERS
PILED In HEAPS
Generals Gales and Flores Refuse
Quarter to Men Who Are
Taken Near Fronteras.
PRISONERS ARE ORDERED SHOT

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Dec 13.-No
quarter was granted Villa soldiers
in the battle which started Thursday
morning at Fronteras, continued
northward to San Joaquin and then
east through a mountain pass lead
ing to the Santa Rosa road into
Chihuahua, according to Americans
who arrived here today from the
scene.
All Villa soldiers taken prisoner
were shot on orders from Generals p.
Elias Gales and Angel Flores, gov
ernors of Sonora and Sinaloa, respec-
lively, according to the same infor-
mants. who declared the wholesale
executions were ordered as q means
of punishment for the villa troops
for looting and other misdemeanors.
Supplied with InfOrmatIOnO
1t was said that among the villa sol
diers captured were found some who
possessed complete lists of residents OF
the town and the property they owned,
even to the full names OF Chinese who
were practically strangers to their neigh
bors. According to the report brought
here by the Americans every house in
Fronteras was looted and all women and
girls were being violated.
The mountain pass east of San Joaquin,
leading to the Santa Rosa road. the dis
trict's outlet into Chihuahua, was de-
scribed by the Americans who visited the
place on the day after the battle as a
shambles, with Villa dead piled about
like cordwood.
villa Gathering Strength.
Ell PASO, Tex, Dec. 12-Reorganixa-
ton of the Villa forces and the develop
ment OF a campaign against Carranza IN
Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas will
begin at Chihuahua City this week, ac-
cording to authoritative Villa sources to-
day.
The campaign is to be directed against
the forces OF Luis Herrera and Jacintc
Trevino, the former in Chihuahua and
the latter in the cities of Durango, Tor
reon and zacatecas. it was said.
villa expects to be assisted by Zapat'
troops now en- route north under Gen
eral Argumendo. by the 1000 men sait
to be in General Banada's command nov
at Casas Grandes and by the remnant
H
struggling into chihuahua from Sonora
General FIdel Avills. governor OF Chi
huahua, was summoned yesterday to Chi
huahua city by General Villa and or
dered to lead body Of troops in tn
coming southern campaign. according {
Villa sources.
Department OF Justice agents here ar
investigating reports Of an alleged junt
| Ill haa
ported to have been in the state @
|. oaxaca in southwestern Mexico, pre-
= pagating a revolutionary movement,
q YaQuis Take Loot.
$ ToPoLOBAMPo, Mexico, Dec p -(B
e Radio 10 San Deigo. Cal.-Yaqui Indian
I that have been raiding the America
. settlement in the Ysqui valley departe
r yesterday, according to reports receive
t here today. driving off 200 mules loade
}. with grain from the American-owne
9 ranches, san Pedro and "Cajeme."
/. The bodies OF six Mexican labore
n employed on one of the ranches We
found near a wrecked harvesting mi
chine, the men having been killed al
mutilated by the raiders.
Four hundred Mexican cavalry lie
/ Esperanza late yesterday for the Yaa
- valley, twelve miles distant. but camp.
for the night after reaching Providence
a half way point. and have not been 7
l. ported as arriving at the trouble distri'
. The United States cruiser Raleig
which was ordered by Admiral Winsl'
y here on the flagship San Diego. to pI
- : ceed to Tobarl bay. has arrived the
., =, and a division OF destroyers has reach
= Guaymas. where the cruiser Denver
Is now anchored.