Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-04-14
FIFTY KILLED AT PARRAL.
". s. Troopers Turn on Mexicans
r When -Attacked-One Soldier Killed.

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". s. Troopers Turn on Mexicans
When -Attacked-One Soldier Killed.
cavalry, led by Maj. Frank Tompkins
and consisting Of the men of the Thir-
teenth cavalry, believing Villa was be-
Ing, harbored In Rarral, entered that
mining town TO search for him.
In clash with citizens of the town.
all Villa sympathizers, more than fifty
Mexicans were killed. The Americans
lost one man Killed and one wounded.
: Explanation of the foregoing incl
dents occura,fng Tuesday was made
practically In these words in private
advices reaching here tonight.
Major Tompkins is the American
commander, who, at the head OF a
small body OF American cavalry,
chased Villa and his whole band across
the border at Columbus and for a
number of miles into Mexico, following
Villas attack on the American town
1 Find Evidence Of Villa.
American scouts, going in advance
of the cavalry column had found evil
dence that Villa, only a short time
before, had been in the vicinity OF
Parral. The scouts had been told by
Mexicans that villa was in Parral and
was being hidden there by the people
with the knowledge Of the small Car
rama garrison. p
The Americans entered Parral with
out evidences being shown by the peo-
pie OF the town or by the Carranza
soldiers that their presence, was re-
sented, the advices say, and It was not
until the Americans began searching
for evidences OF Villa that the excit-
able townspeople began. to show AMI
mostly. s< -, Z:
snipers open tho Battle.
Later, as the. Americans were leav-
Ing PafralsS.ln response to a request to
tdo SO made by the town officials
Mexican .snipers. from windows and
housetops, begas~ siriag upon them
The serious clasii came later. when a
considerable body OF armed citizens,
following the Americans opened fire.
The fire was quickly returned and the
Mexicans fed leaving MANY dead and
wounded in the. streets.
Villa unquestionably was in Parral
shortly before the American troops ar
rived there. Whether he still is there
in hiding or has left for the south, as
Parral people say, has not definitely
been determined. N s.,..
.Toniglrt's advices say Major Tomp-
kins,, altho leaving Parral, still is
keeping his men close to that town In
the belief that Villa stillsSis in there
and is being shielded by the people.
Two Brushes in ParraI.
K There was nothing in private advices
last night to indicate that the Carranza
soldiers in Parral took part in the at
tack on the Americans.
One report says there were two sep
arate clashes before the Americans fl
nally left Parral and that in the sec
ond encounter with the populace the
|Carranza commander sent his troops to
disperse the crowd, which was being
rapidly moved down by American bull
lets.
The public meeting held in the plaza
while the Americans were in the town
was called and addressed by men who
are said to have formerly been allied
with villa. They told the people that
the Americans had come to. capture
their town and to loot 1t and that the
Mexican men, women, and children
would be made prisoners.
Official Report on Clash.
Gen. Alvaro Obregon, Mexican minis
ter of war, has telegraphed Gen. Gabriel
Gayira, commander of the Juarez gar
rison, details of the Parral clash. The
dispatch, dated Queretaro. April IL,
reads: 60 >-...-.
'.My department, desiring to bring to
the knowledge Of the army the lament
able incident occurring yesterday In
the city of Parral, Chihuahua, between
che pople of that city and an American
force belonging to the troops engaged
In the pursuit of Villa, communicates
this to you in order that you in turn
may make 1t known to your subordi-
mates and give It also to the press that
the people may know the facts as they
are. }sa .... ..s
sat O'Clock In the afternoon an
American force composed Of $50 men
entered the city and the authorities Of
the same notified the commander of the
said force that the Americans should
vacate It,
..The commander OF the Americans
began to carry out the wish of the au-
thorities, when the people of the city
organized a meeting OF protest against
| the entrance into the city Of the Amer
lean troops without permission.
.sThe civil authorities tried to avoid
conflict, but their forces were not
sufficient to handle the situation, In
the friction which resulted one Amer
tican soldier was killed and several citi-
:ens were wounded.
.The municipal president, Jose de la
Luz Herrera, and the constitntionalist
generals, Garcia, Lozana and Herman
dez, with some Of their officials and
troops, tried to calm the people and
succeeded thus In avoiding an incident
THAT might have taken very large pro-
lportions The American force left our
city" rs
ANOTHER WHITE HOPE.
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world, last night. He IL the fifth
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