Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-21
VILLA LEADERS
 DIE IN BATTLE. WITH FEDERALS.
General Zuazua's Command In Fierce Clash Routs Ban ,dits and Kills Many Soldiers Martin Lopez. Ramon Vega and Epifanio Holguin. Chieftians of Robbers. are Slain In Conflict
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 JUABEZ, Mexico, March 20.-A fight between General ZuaZua's fed eraI cavalry and Villa rebels under Martin Lopez occurred yesterday near Ascension, 60 miles south of the Columbus, N. M., border. according to military information received here tonight. A number of the Villa men vera killed and several prisoners taken according to the meager re- port from General Zuazua
 Col J. Agustin Mora, in command of the federal garrison here, tonight re- ceiEed a report from General Zuazua of the battle with the Villa rebels, which occurred yesterday 75 miles south of the Columbus, N. M.. border. Fifty-three fVlla followers were kill ed. Three bodies. taken to Ascension, Chihuahua, 12 miles from the scene of the conflict, were identified by resi- dents there as those of Martin Lopez. villas second in command; Ramon Vega, a Villa general, and Epifanio Holgufn, bandit leader, who has held rp ts.fns and ccmE.ttod 3a2y dcrse- eations in western Chihuahua
 Forces About Equal
 The battle, which occurred at a nIace called Boquilla del MarquOte, commenced early yesterday morning. General Zuazua's force numbered 800 men and the rebels approximately the same.
 ekccording to General Zuazua. the rebels were in houses and behind adobe walls, but ran short of ammu- milton and were forced to charge when thes. were moved down by the single znhehine gun with which the federals Befe armed The rebels fled leaving fheir dead on the field.
 The. report of the battle reached Juarez in brief military code mes sags from an unnamed point on the Mexican Northwestern Railroad, Bhere it was brought by a runner. AS is characteristic of Mexican bat tle reports it made no mention of the losses of the federals save that a cap tain had been killed
 Go to American Ranch
 General Zuazua, with 500 cavalry men, left Juarez Saturday and travel ed by train to NueYa Casas Grandes, marching overland from there in the direction of Ojitos and Janos, where the ranch foreman Bunk" Spencer and a number of employees of the Warren Cattle Company, an Ameri- can concern, were held prisoners by Martin Lopez and his band.
 According to General ZuaZua, the battle lasted several hours before the rebels ran out of ammunition and charged in an attempt to capture the 1a sn fr ammunitiOn-
 The charging men were met by a burst of machine-gun fire and fled leaving their dead on the field.
 Lopez Has Record
 Namin Lopez has been with Villa since boyhood and for the last two years has been his principal lieuten ant. It was. Lopez who first instituted the praetics of dynafniting trains anC rbbbing the passengers of everythinl Aey possessed, including their cloth ing and shoes and leaving them nude Lopez, with his brother, Pablo. par tfcfpated in the raid on Columbus, N N-. fn March, 1915. Pablo wa wounded and was later captured ant taken to Chihuahua where he was e1 ecuted by order of the then governor Jacinto TreYino.
 Ramon Vega is a comparatively new eomer among the rebels, though h has been implicated in a number o recent attacks on small places Il Western Chihuahua On March h rafded Pearson, footed the property 0 the Madero Lumber Company an killed a Chinese merchant.
 To Display Bodies
 Epifanio Holguin is a bandit an one of two brothers who made thei headquarters in the vicinity of Will Ahumada, 30 miles south of Juarei where they held up trains, robbe ranches and mining properties and o a number of occasions held America mine operators for ransom.
 Colonel Mora announced tontgl that the bodies of the three leader
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