The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1916-04-06
VILLA SEEKS
SECRET CAvERNS
Wounded Bandit EIudes U. s.
Troopers.
OUTLAW 3ANOs OEMORALIzEO
indications Point to Three Separate
villa Bands Operating In Mexico
Little Probability Seven Foreigners
Escaped Capture by cavaxos.

N"~ Se"Ss StS'e'"h '" "eSS
Little Probability Seven Foreigners
Escaped Capture by cavaxos.
Ell Paso, Tex, April 4.--Advices re.
ceived by local mining men confirmed
Carranza advices that American
troops arrived at San Antonio, ten
miles north Of Cusihuirachic, and that
Villa had gone south and was wounded
In the knee. The news that villa was
wounded was brought into Cusi by
wood gatherers, who supply the mine
plants.
Another new fact that private tele-
graph dispatches disclose is that Gen.
Jose Cavazos reached Cusihuirachic
following the battle at Guerrero and
that he had with him some forty men.
The dispatches states that Cavazos
came into Gust on the run and that
the information that Pancho has at
any time been near Cusi is an error.
The fact that Cavazos escaped from
Guerrero with forty men confirms Car
rama claims that villa only killed a
few Carranzistas when he captured
Guerrero whose garrison only totaled
between fifty and seventy men. ac-
cording to General Gaxira of Juarez.
The management Of the Cusi Min
ing company says there is little prob
ability that any OF the seven foreign
ers whose names have been cited as
killed by villa have escaped with the
possible exception Of Heimple.
General Gutierrez. commander OF
the Constitutional forces in Chihua.
hua, in a message to General Gavira,
OF the Juarez garrison also nositive'y
confirmed the reports reaching the
border from many sources that WIZ
was wounded in an engagement wifi
the Carranza troops at Guerrero n,
Monday, March 81. He states in h'F
message to General Gsvira that h's
advices from General G"vozos. WI =
survived the sudden Villista attach.
led him to believe that Villa has been
conveyed into secret caverns and raw
ines OF the San Andres mountains.
and that he will be found there event
ually.
The message from General Cutler
rez also states that the Villista troops
In the Guerrero district are badly de-
moralized. How General Cavazos es-
capped or the number of his losses, was
not learned.
General Gavira was asked again re-
garding the continuous rumor current
in the United States of the detection
of General Luis Herrera and Colonel
Cano, and he denied vigorously that
there had been any detection or that
there was any probability of the
American troops having attacked a
column under Cano at Guerrero In
stead OF a band of Villistas.
From every source comes the af-
firmation," he said, that Villa has
been engaged in the Guerrero district
and that he was wounded. The trou'
BILE with lots of newspaper CORE
spondents in FL Paso is that they are
smoking Marihuana, and just because
a number OF them were mistaken at
first about Herrera they seek every
chance to place that general in a bad
light"
An unusual rumor which is going
the rounds among the mining men ex'
lied in FL Paso. is that General Her
rera was in Cusi recently and that he
had but one or two men with him.
When asked what he proposed to do
he Is said TO have replied: II don't
know whether to fight villa or the
Americans"
Americans arriving from Chihua-
hua. however. reported seeing Herrera
and his command at Laguna. north of
chihuahua City at a point where the
trail crosses from Guerrero to Coyalo.
Many things point to the theory
that villa has three or more bands all
working In different directions at the
same time. The attacks upon Minaca
and Guerrero are supposedly the work
OF two distinct bands and the presence
of bandits near Cusihuiriachic on the
day following the engagement OF the
Seventh cavalry with the villistas at
Guerrero suggests that this is third
band.
Repeated rumors from chihuahua
that raid by villistas Is expected led
many persons on the border to believe
that the same band that visited Cusi-
huiriachic. augmented by new recruits
from the Guerrero and Minaca massa'
ere. are now but a short distance OF
Chihuahua.
Passengers from Chihuahua assert
that the Sapnish residents OF Chihua-
hua City. the only ones who were
alarmed over the reports OF Villas
progress to Chihuahua City with a
force OF men.