The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-19

courteous, but there was q feeling
or resentment among tho soldiers
that we did not like. On Tuesday
morning at 8 o'clock we succeeded
IN making up a train in which en-
ployes and their families from
Tlahualllo plantation had one box
car; the employees Of the Continental
Rubber Company. another: and the
third box car WAS occupied by the
employees Of the TOrreon smelter.
Journey Of Refugees.
Without any accommodations
whatever and sitting on the floor
and on our baggage, We began the
journey northeast. At PantanO We
had 10 wait for some twenty hours
10 make connection with the train nj
Eagle Pass. Will. the majority Of the
refugees went up few hours earlier
by the Laredo route.
we left TOrreOn because 10 us il
looked as though intervention had
come. We felt that il the Constitu-
tioDaltsts retRliated we would be
made prisoners and we knew that II
Villa or his many synpathizers in
Torreon were 10 take the city or muir
der the small garrison, we would all
be mussaCred: and taking everything
into consideration, we felt there was
only one thing to do and that was to
come out and wait until the country
was restored to order.
Food Supply SciInt.
THE food supply in To,re0n IL
very sCAnt, and the lower classes have
little II anything. They have no
work to enable them to earn money
and the supply OF corn and beans Is
much drawn upon. The people with
money can buy pretty much what they
wish, but it takes money. should
not hesitate to say that there are
10000 unemployed men In Torreon.
1T Is the lack of work that makes
the MexiCans of the lower class fol-
low soldering ut I'LL. know them
well enough to know that they would
much rather be engaged In peaceful
pursuits. The middle classes In Tor
rcon as we'll as in all Mexico. are re-
sponsible for the state of anarchy and
naturally they are lighting, not for
any principles but for their own pro-
lection.
Better to Get Out.
''In the party that came up from
TorreOn we had some forty-twO men,
women and children. or this num-
Der twenty-five were Americans, the
remainder Germans, French ana
English. At the junction point where
one train went to Eagle Pass and the
other to Laredo. we met coaches full
of Americans and foreigners coming
out of Mexico City and San Luis Po-
tosi. All told the same story-they
thought Intervention had come and
that It was better 10 be out of the
country.
LAS to Torreon, 1T has only small
garrison and 1t is difficult TO say how
many of the men are Villa sympa-
Villa is said to have told
persons coming into Torreon that he
would take the city by March rs and
ii he wanted to it would be very
simple proposition"
Mrs. Leroy S. Davis, wife Of an
American cattleman, who has been
since last October. sought aid
Of the British consul at Topic, Mex
leo, to search for her husband. Her
letters to him have come back with
the words across the face, Cannot
be found"
Camp Enjoys Lull.
The Columbus camp was enjoying
a lull today. Certain troops have
been dispatched Somewhere" and
certain others" have arrived" and
taken the places of those who have
gone into the sand waste lying south
Of the railway track. The aeroplanes
have been tested out and seem TO
be awaiting transports. The big spe-
cial motor trucks used with the aero
planes to follow the flights are just
now busy with the more prosalc
duties of carrying fodder, provisions
and other supplies. The number OF
motor trucks will be materially in
soon, according to reports
around the camp.
This morning. reveille was blown
at 5 o'clock over in the cavalry camp
but when the people of Columbus
turned out of bed, they found moth
ing but foot and hoof prints and lit
tered sand in what had been u popu-
lous corner of the camp. acre were
still plenty of soldiers on hand, aud
Columbus billiard rooms and soft
drink placcs--the town is dry-dally
take in enough TO pay the city debt
Automobile Record Run,
An automobile record between Den
yer and El Paso, run OF 500 miles.
was made by Lieutenant A. NJ. Gra-
ham, OF the Eleventh cavalry, In an
swering the call to be with his regi-
ment in Columbus by Thursday. He
was on the road fifty-hve hours, with
seven hours sleep. He made the run
alone.
The correspondents who have gone
into Mexico with the expedition re-
NAMED silent today. on account of
the censorship. 1t was said that most
of them were under polite corral.
along toward the rear with the In
fantry. While this could not he veri-
fed. it was fact that the only mem
hers OF the correspondents party
whose presence has been definitely re-
ported were far behind the vanguard
Mt last reports. II any newspaper OBJ
servers are among the leading col
umns. the censor has succeeded IN
hiding their movements much more
than he has cloaked the
position of the troops.
Rum Costs Si5.
Deming. y. NJ. was today included
in tho Columbus censorship area.
Heretofore many correspondents
whose dispatches were in Columbus
have taken an hours run to Deming.
eyadinE the censor. The price of this
run Jumped from SIS to SIS on ac-
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