Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-05-17
AGU|LAR ESCAPES;
BELIEVED TRYING
TO JOIN CARRANzA
President. INDICATED in
Mountains, Is Being HotIy
Pursued by Rebels.

! by the Associated Press
i VERA tRl'Z. May l7.-Gen. tandido
Aguilar. governor of the stat. of Vera
Cruz, and son in-law of President
carranza. who has been virtually a
prisoner of revolutionary forces near
Irozaba for the past week. escaped
last night. 1t is believed he is trying
to join carranza. who He'd into the
mountains near Chalrhicomula on
Friday. and who so far as known has
not as yet been located Gen. Aguiiar
has with him about 3n6 of his fol-
lowers
Pursuit of Carranza is being vigor-
ously pushed by Gems. Pedro sanchez
and HiS!nio Aguilar, Leaders OF the
/ revolutionary forces which fought a
grim battle with CarranZa army
near Rinconado last week They have
superior force of cavalry Gen
Medina left here today over the In
| teroceanic railroad for the purpose of
intercepting CarranZa if he attempts
! to reach the state of Vera cruz.
Federnls Lnck Food.
: Lack of food and water lowered the
morale Of CarranZas men so that
their defeats at the hands of the rev.
olutionistS was compa ra lively easy
4 task. says a dispatch from the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent in the bat
j tie zone. He has just been joined by
correspondent of the newspaper FL
Dictamen of this city, who was with
CarranZa when he fled from Mexico
city on May :. and witnessed much OF
the fighting around San Marcos and
: Rinconada
4 W hen revolutionary troops swept
down on the capital carranza decided
to flee. ciinging to the idea that il
was necessary for him to reach Vera
sr.t,z I. liz.
ers. His trains carried 10000 men
and large amount of war munitions.
1 IN addition to the presidential suite
and government funds and archives
On May the CarranZa trains reached
Pizaco. where they were joined by
troops commanded by Gen. Pillar SAN
chez. The! then pushed on but soon
: the engineers reported they could go
no further because their locomotives
We're out of water.
Z Defeat Rebel Force
I The troops detrained and pushed on
down the road. defeating a force of
/ revolutionists which tried to check
their advance.
! After the track bad been cut behind
! il means We're found 10 take the presi-
! dental train farther toward Vera
cruz. and on May IL il reached San
Marcos. Rincenada was reached the
next day. and there a battle was
/
Gen. MireleSs, which were defeated by
! the heavier columns commanded by
CarranZa.
Up to this time no word Of the re-
volt of Gen. Guadeloupe Sanchez revo-
! lutionary leader in this state. had
reached CarranZa, but on May l3 this
alarming news was received. Later.
when the town of Aleibes was
reached. Carranza's men found the
rails cut. No water could he secured
at Algibes and the morale of the SOL
{ diers seemed to break. large numbers
deserting.
On the afternoon of May Il Gen SAM
chez made violent assault on the Car
rama army. but just At what seemed
to be the moment of victory its attack
was repulsed By counter thrust led
by Gen. Mursuia.
Carranzn Decides to Flee.
The next day found the CarranZa men
abandoning some of the ground and
Gen. Sanchez launched a new attack.
which smashed the CarranZa line and
routed a part of the government troops
More than $500 prisoners We're taken
by the ,evolutionists, who also cap
tured all Of Carranza's art llery aud
machine guns. 1t was Immediately
after this reverse that Carranza fled
from the field Of battle
Gen. l4berado Lara Torres. who was
wounded in the fighting on May i3 and
was later brous mt to this city for treat
ment, died YESTERDAY