The Washington herald., 1916-12-01
TERROR RE|GNS
AS VILLA FIGHTS
FOR CHIHUAHUA
Battle Rages in Streets Of City
for Four Days, Refugees
Declare.
FIFTY AMERICANS FLEE
Fate of Those Left Behind in Doubt
Bandit Chief Controls
the Town.
OBy the International New. Service.

CBy the international News seryice.)
FL Paso. Tex, Nov. 3o.-Tales of four
days and nights OF heavy fighting and
terrorism in the streets of Chihuahua
City at the end of which the Carranzista
forces were routed by Villistas, with
''Pancho" Villa at their head were
brought to the border today by the rem
nants Of the Carranza army that reached
Juarez shortly after noon. The ragged
and disorganized band Of Carranzistas are
encamped on the plains south of Juarez
tonight and the hospitals of the city
are filled with the wounded
The troop trains also brought between
forty and fifty American refugees, but
they NtIe unable to say whether any OF
their cUunITymen had been killed in the
lighting la Chihuahua City. 1t is said,
however, that a number of civilians in
chihuahua City were shot down.
No Organized killing
All of the refugees agreed that there
had been no arganized killing of foreign
ers up to the time they lett and several
told of Villa having shot down two of
his own men in order to stop Iooting OF
the stores of the besieged city.
reaching Juarez with the fleeing army
that villa Is in complete control of the
city, but General Gonzales at Juarez
military headquarters, says he has ad-
vices that General OZuna is in battle
with Villista force at Nombre De Dios,
northwest of Chihuahua City. The refu-
gees confirmed the report that at the
time of the rout the Carranza army was
split and what was left made its escape
n % fn ha
south.
By some of the refugees General Tre-
vino. the defeated military leader at Chi
huahua City. is placed with his battered
army at Aldama, about twenty miles
from Chihuahua City. Other reports are
that he Is at Hacienda Dolores, west of
the city.
villa I'm Chihuahua.
Villa was seen in Chihuahua City on
Monday morning by some of the refu-
ssss- He was walking without crutches,
one man said, as IL to inspire his men
with his hardfhood, and looked thinner
than In the earlier part of his campaign.
His mustaehe has been cut OF.
II is the claim of the defeated Carran-
zistas In Juarez that they were in COM
mand of the situation in the first four
days Of the fighting. but they say that
because of lack of ammunition they were
obliged on the fifth day to give up the
city. The flight of the Carranzistas
started with the taking of Santa Rosa
Hill, the key position to the city The
loss of this point is blamed on Gen. Con
zales Cruellar. in command there, who
allowed the infantry lines to be weak
ened- The start of the Villista artillery
action from the bill was the signal for
disorganized flight, refugees say
Some of the heaviest fighting took
place between the cemetery and Santa
Rosa Hill and there the grounds strewl,
with dead, many of them having been
killed in the first days of the battle.
Looting is said to have started when
Villa ordered two drug stores broken
into to obtain medicine for his wounded
but this the rebel leader quickly stopped
by shooting down two of his own men
caught entering another store