Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-21
Bndmen Seek to DISCOVER
OUTLAW After He LeaUes
Dead and Wounded Behind
at Namiquipa and Makes
Tracks For the Mountains
BANDIT MAY BREAK
UP HIS COMMAND
Army Officers Agree That if
He Takes Refuge in Sierra
Madre Range With Small
Band 1t Will Be Practically
Impossible to Capture Him
By .issociatcd Press

El Paso. Texas. March 21.-Avia-
tors of the United States army We're
reported to-day searching the almost
blind trails leading to the passes in
The Sierra Madre mountains where
Francisco Villa may seek to escape
after mis- defeat by the Carranza forces
Yesterday at Namiquipa.
Details of the fight in which Colonel
Cano with about 800 Carranzistas took
part, are lacking, but it is reported
that Villa was badly worsted and that
he fed, leaving his dead and wounded.
Captain B. ID. Foulois is in charge
of the seven aViators selected for the
task of scouting for Villa who, after
his fight with Colonel Cano, is expected
to scatter his bandits rather than risk
an engagement with the American
troops. who are said to bar his way
to the north.
Expected to Scatter
Army officers agree that if villa
breaks up his command into small
bands and turns to the Sierra Madre
mountains for a hiding place. it Will
he almost impossible to capture him.
Villa spent his early days as an out
law in these mountains, the passes
through which an army and It's trans
port may not move. 1t takes ten to
Twelve days to negotiate these passes
nto the Sonora district.
Mexicans here believe Villa will
hide himself away in the mountain
rastness until the American troops
have given up the chase
Six BipIanes Join Force
Interest was shown in wireless dis
"a, l,n et1 ~
biplanes of the First Aero Squadron,
commanded by Captain Benjamin ID.
F0ulois. had joined the American eX-
peditionary forces
Henceforth aeroplane scouting is eX-
pected here to play an important part
in the progress of General Pershing' $
columns. At e. Vale and Cruces, ac-
cording to travellers in the Santa Maris
Valley, there are plenty of locations
suitable for aeroplane bases. From
these points the army airmen are eX-
pected to make frequent reconnais-
Sances over the lofty reaches of the
Sierra Madre range.
If Villa is proceeding in considerable
force, the airmen are likely to locate
him. If he has split up his command
into small units and is keeping under
shelter OF the oak and pine woods. the
task of the observers will become diff
cult.
III TICK camp SlteS
II is not alone in spying after Villa
forces that the First Squadron will be
employed. The flying men are eX-
pected to pick out camping places,
watering spots and in some cases path
ways over the mountains which the
mule trains can follow.
No uneasiness is felt here regarding
Lieutenant w. G.. Kilner, who left Co
lumbus in a seventh machine to go to
the front and did not arrive with the
others. The aero squadron undoubt-
edly followed the line of communi-
cation established by General Pershing
in his southwark progress. If Lieu
tenant Kilner suffered any mishap and
was compelled to aiight. he was almost
certain to be picked up at once by
some outpost, ii is believed. Dis
patches arriving from Columbus, \. NJ.
say that although it is now more than
ten days since the Villa forces attacked
Columbus and it has been establishe ed
definitely that the bandit is fleeing be-
fore the eXpeditionary force, some OF
the residents of the town are not with
out fear that the raid may be repeated
Practically all of the male residents
carry firearms.
Scholars Tote Guns
When the brick schoolhouse on the
Mesa was opened for the first time
since the raid, a number of the older
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