El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-17

inc Mai Tompkns cavalry troops
X and Nj entered Parral II a. m, 18th
instant Tomp5kiinsi PFe 1-S was
military officials. Military commander,
en- Tozano, accompanied Mai Tomp-
I5ius on way 10 camp
Troons Oufflanked. Withdrew.
.In the outskirts general groups of
native troops and civilians following,
threw stones and fired on the columns.
Mai Tompkins took defensivei posi-
lion near the railroad. that was soon
thanked by native troops and forced to
further retire.
"About 800 Carranza troops Joined IN
nurs1Iit and Mai Tompkins continued
h. withdraw to avoid further compli-
1 cations. until he reached Santa Cruz,
| eight miles from Parral.
Mai TOmpkins deserves great
praise for his forbearance.
Gen. Lozano attempted to control
his men when fighting first began,
/ hut failed. Col. Brown, with Mail
! Charles Young. and a squadron Of the
1Oth cavalry was eight miles away
( when notified, and Joined Mai Frank
/ Tompkins at p. m. Sentence de-
J Ieted at this point)
Repeated privately 80 Mexicaus
killed all soldiers, including one
major one civilian wounded; Amer
( lean killed, two; wounded, six; missing,
/ one: Mai. Tompkins slightly wounded
! i'm foot by spent bullet.
"Nai r. L. Howe. 11th cavalry. ar
] y
cisco BOria and Balleza, having had
/ several skirmishes with Villa men.
! one man killed. two wounded"
s. Obregon Reports on Villas Death.
A message to the Ale,Sica embassy,
/ sent by Gen. Alvaro Obregon. Carran-
za's war minister, from Mexico City,
B may throw some light upon the way in
/ which Villa came to his death. should
/ the border reports prove true. II read
"The last report. rendered by Gen.
Gutierrez, military commander at Chi
! huahua. makes known that the Nillista
force at Corral de Piedra has been COM
/ pletely defeated in tight which lasted
! three hours and 20 minutes. The band,
) composed Of $50 men, has been dis
persed. This band was commanded by
J. arrange, Martin Lopez and the so
called Gen. Beltran, who is second In
J command to villa. To this band the
I Nllista general Reyna, was attached.
The prisoners declared that Villa with
I eight men. fled to the mountains where
he Is actively pursued by our forces
and it is said that he will be captured
Under date Of Saturday. Gen. Obre-
gOn telegraphed:
Men Abandon villa.
The forces that were commanded
by the bandit Villa and which have
now been reduced 10 100 men, have
abandoned him and he is followed by
only eight bandits He has been flee
ing in the mountains trying to escape
our troops. which follow him closely"
, Gen. ObreEon forwarded TO the em-
bassy Sunday the following dispatch.
After the incident at Parral, the
commander OF the American forces
asked for a conference with the mayor
OF the city, Jose de Ia LUZ Herrera,
and after II had taken place the mayor
has informed me as follows: T visited
Corral Nilleas. where the american
forces are encamped to the number Of
400, and was very cordially received
T
made a vital mistake in entering the
town without advising the authorities.
/. They state they sent a courier from
ZaraEosa. but he probably was appre-
count he. did not arrive on time
Lieut.. Col. Rivers Recovering.
Gen. Funston teleEraphed that Lieut..
Col. Tyree r Rivers, who was serious
" in with pneumonia at Casas Grandes.
was out of danger and was being re
moved to Columbus.