Meade County news., 1916-12-07
BANDITS ARE EXPECTED TO
EVAcUATE CHIHUAHUA CITY
AFTER GETTING PLUMBER.
VILLA IS AG.l.yST FOREIGNERS
Reported to Have Declared Intention
to Kill All Foreigners-Confisc
Their Property and Gave It to the
Mexicans.

JudTel, Dec. G.-Nllld DdnuIIS were
reported loading two trains with loot
from stores and private residences OF
Chihuahua City and preparing to fol-
low these trains west on the Mexico
Northwestern railroad, according to
a message received at military head
quarters last night from General o.
una's scouts at Sauz.
General Ozuna's cavalry column was
at Guilty, the first station south OF
the state capital, the report said. The
scouts obtained their information from
refugees from Chihuahua City. This
news was taken at headquarters to
indicate the intention of Villa to evac.
uate the city after looting it, as he did
at Parral, Santa Rosalia and Jiminez.
General Gonzales said Trevino was in
Horcasitas yesterday awaiting the ar
rival OF General Murguia's forces.
Villa made a speech against foreign.
4rs in Hidalgo Plaza, after his oc.
cIpation of the city, a Chinese farmer
and merchant who left chihuahua City
Wednesday morning at 10 a. M, said
upon his arrival here early today on
troop train. In his speech, Villa
warned against hiding any foreigners
and declared he intended to kill them
all, the Chinese added. Villa also said
he intended to confiscate all foreign
property and give it to the Mexicans.
The Chinese explained that he did
rot hear Villas speech but it was told
him by a Mexican woman in whose
house he was hiding. She told him she
could no longer shelter him as she
was afraid of Villas wrath.
Before he could leave the house a
detachment of Villas men came, the
Chinese said. broke down the door and
started a search for him He ran out
of back door and escaped to Nombre
De Dios, near Chihuahua City where
he said he saw Villa troops at the
country home of General Luis Terra
zas and these fired at the train which
was leaving for the north but without
casualties. He also said three trains
of troops escaped to Sauz Tuesday and
Wednesday, but all went back with
General Ozuna. He did not see any
American, French, German or British
refugees at Sauz, he said, but only
saw numbers of Chinese and a few
Syrians.
He confirmed the killing Of many
Chinese residents of Chihuahua City
He said he saw at least Is dead in the
streets near where he was hiding and
he believed many others were killed
He said, the cannon on Cerro Santa
Rosa set fire to many houses in the
city
This Chinese citizen arrived here in
rags although he was a prosperous
merchant and farmer at Chihuahua
City. He was without money, as are
more than 500 here nowIand an appeal
has been sent the Chinese minister at
Washington for funds.
A Spanish subject who reached the
border today gave the first details OF
the fighting along Zarco avenue,
which is said to bave been the fiercest
of any in the battle. The Spaniard said
he saw the bandits as they charged
and counter-charged the government
opposition there, finally capturing
the Guadalupe church and the breast
works at Guadalupe bridge. The ban
dts burned the parish house and then
moved into the heart of the city, he
said.
In anticipation of bandit attacks, the
Caranza government today had
large amount of army supplies, food
and forage shipped to wagons from
Juarez across to the American side.
The weapons were sealed by United
States custom officials and placed un-
der bond.
Juarez is military garrison now
All the barracks are filled with SOL
diers and the railroad yards crowded
with troop trains and parked artillery,
streets swarm with Carranza soldiers
and officers. 1t was estiamted that
there are 1000 soldiers now in Juarez
and troop train from Casas Grandes
is expected to bring 400 more.
Women and children who came with
the soldiers we're begging in the
stretes and were carrying away every
available piece of wood, to burn In
the camp fires which dot the rail-
road yards, the stock pens and the
plains to the south. There are sixty
two wounded in the Francisco Ma.
dero hospital here under the care OF
Major Martinez who came from Chi
huahua CITY with them