New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-03
Carranza General Reports
He Is Advancing on
Captured City
MANY PRISONERS
PUT TO DEATH
Bandits Finish LoOting the
Town and Move Toward
the American Line

Carranza to-day that he had routed a
band of Villa followers, numbering
$500 men, and had pursued them about
twelve miles toward Chihuahua City.
The general reported that he was con-
tinuing his advance toward Chihuahua
City to-day.
The engagement with the bandits that
General Murguia reported, lasted SIX
hours and took place south OF chi
huahua City. Three machine guns were
captured from the bandits and many
prisoners were taken. General Murguia
stated that the prisoners had been put
TO death.
by Telegraph to The TibunsJ
Ell Paso, Tex, Dec. 2.--Villa bandits,
having completed the footing Of Chi
huahua City, abandoned the city to-day
TO attack in two divisions the Ameri-
can border in the Big Bend country
and General Pershing's army in west
ern Chihuahua, according TO reports
received in Juarez this afternoon.
Every store, warehouse and residence
in the city of Chihuahua has been
stripped OF provisions, clothing and
portable valuables to enrich Villas
army and the hundreds of peon fam
lilies who look to him for sustenance.
Loot gathered by the Nillistas was
loaded on four long trains to-day, which
moved over the Mexico Northwestern
Railroad into Western Chihuahua, &C
companied by more than 5000 Villa
soldiers.
Although Vilistas for three days
have been burning the bodies Of the
slain in the Chihuahua battles. hun
dreds of dead bodies still are lying in
the streets of Chihuahua. Many of these
are said to be the bodies Of Chinese
slain by Villa soldiers after the fight
ing for the possession Of the city had
ended and the Chinese had come out OF
their hiding places TO see which side
had won.
American Reported Slain
At least two foreigners other than
Chinese were killed by Nlllistas IN
chihuahua, one of them an American,
according to report received at army!
headquarters here tonight. One OF
the slain was Karlos Elmendorf,
German subject and brother of Frank
Elmendorff, of FL Paso. The other
was an American named Harrles.
Karlos Elmendorff was a salesman for
q large wholesale house in Chihuahua
Carranza officials in Juarez an
nounced tonight that General Carlos
Ozuna, after reorganlzlng ms army,
occupied the northern Chihuahua sub
urbs to-day. General Murguis was re
ported in the same advices as moving
upon Chihuahua from the south, and
Carranza men think Chihuahua City
will be in full possession of the de
facto government by Sunday.
General Murguia, according to In
formation received by American army
men, still was forty miles south OF
Chihuahua to-day, with no apparent
intention of moving against the Villa
forces.
Mexican border residents expect
Villa Immediately to attack the Texas
border in the vicinity of Preside, Tex
and reports brought to Juarez to-day
by refugees say a Villa army now is
moving toward Ojinaga, where Car
rama garrison, strengthened by -four
hundred men, under General Marrero,
is expected to oppose the Villistas.
Villa is said to be accompanying the
army which he has sent into Western
Chihuahua toward General Pershings'
base, but Mexican natives in Western
Chihuahua toward General Pershing's
purpose is not so much TO attack the
American forces, with whose strength
he is familiar, as to visit his vengeance
upon the people of the communities
where American troops have been sta
toned.
Villa, the report says, has sworn to
xiii all who in any way have aided the
American troops, and all residents Of
the FL Vale, Namiquipa and Gallena
countries are preparing to run TO the
border on the approach Of the Willis
tas