New Britain herald., 1916-12-01
REFUGEE ARMY
 REACHES jUAREZ
Carranza Troops Tell Story of
 Fall Of Chihuahua

Juarez, Mexico, Dec. 1.-The rem
 nahts of Carranza army that fed
 rom Chihuahua City after a battle
 With Villa were in camp last night on
 the plains south of Juarez They
 brought with them the story of the
 evacuation of the city after four days
 and nights of fighting. The dead were
 piled high in the streets when they
 left, and had been covered with oil
 and burned, they said
 Soon after 1 a. m., yesterday the
 first troop train brought the ragged survivors of the de facto forces which had escaped to the north. Accom- panying this train was a sanitary sec ton consisting of three second class 1 coaches and one 'White Cross" hos pital car. In these cars were more 1 than 100 wounded soldiers of the Carranza command. The hospitals here are filled and volunteer nurses are working to care for the officers 1 and men wounded in battle
 ! The troop trains that brought this ! surviving force to the border left ! Chihuahua City at 10:30 Monday 1 morning, proceeding to point near ] Terrazas station, where a burned bridge forced them to transfer to an- l other train Wednesday,
 The troops brought back many of ! their field pieces. These are parked in the custom house wards with gar lands of "jerl<ed beef" hanging from their muzzles. Women camp follow CTS shared in the retreat.
 Dead Covered Streets. Refugees said that between the cemetery and Santa Rosa hill the dead covered the streets, many hay ing died days before. Along the streets near the railroad station and surrounding the station one refugee l said he saw many cavalry horses with 1 Carbines and sabers attached to the 1 saddles. Carranza cavalrymen hay , ing abandoned them in order to leave , the city on the troop train, they were left without an owner. Along Zarco avenue the fighting had been fiercest and many civilians had been killed 1 there and in other parts of the city by 1 shell-fire and rifle balls. The houses i lining this street were pitted with the 1 bullet marks of the battle a refugee ! said, and many shell holes were to be ] seen in the houses in the heart of the ] city
 ! All of the refugees agreed that Car 1 ranza troops were winning during the 1 first four days of the fighting but eith- CT because of a shortage of ammuni- ton or lack of morale they abandoned the city early on the fifth morning of the battle, seeking safety in flight in all directions. The taking of Santa Rosa Hill which always has been known as the "key to Chihuahua" was said by one of the foreign refr- gees to have started the retirement of the Carranza forces, which he said, q left. The cavalry, artillery and infan- try poured down the streets leading to the station, which is north of the city proper. and climbed aboard the train
 in wild scramble to get away. Soldiers Flee.
 One civilian refugee claimed that
 General Gonzales Cuellar was respon- sible for the taking of Santa Rosa Hill. where he was in command as he al- lowed the infantry line to be weak
 ened. When the artillery was turned on the city, the refugee added, the
 moral effect was almost immediately noticeable and the Carranza soldiers who had been anxious for battle Sat urday night, dropped their rifles and fled. One refugee claimed to have seen officers leave their men fighting
 to flee for safety. This, however, could not be veriliec.
 It is believed by the refugees and
 Carranza officers that General Ire
 vino left first for Tabaloapa, south
 of the city, and from there moved
 to Aldama, about twenty miles from
 Chihuahua City. Another report said
 the Carranza commander was at Ha-
 cienda Dolores, west of the city
 Villa Is Seen.
 One Mexican civilian refugee de-
 clared today he had seen Villa in the 1