Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-19
WE ARE LOST
CARRANZA SAID
AS He ESCAPED
UnSeated Chief FIeeS Into
the Mountains When His
Trains Are Besieged in
San Marcos Vicinity.
lsr noenno .ounsA. SPECIAL .s.sEe w,erl

10y MORNING. JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiRul
Mexico City, May IS (by the AS
sociated Press I've are lost!
Coed bye. gentlemen"
These We're Carranza's final
words before his flight from the
besieged trains in the early after
noon of May IA, while pausing mo-
mentarily before a crowd of terri
fled civilian refugees few miles
east of san Marcos, accompanied
by few intimates and guarded by
what .he special dispatches term
"a very small cavalry force"
The fugitive president crossed
the narrow valley, stopped for
few moments TO watch the liberal
revolutionary forces accupy the
stalled trains, then disappeared
among the mountains.
1t is believed certain that Car
rama is heading northwest toward
the coast by way of Cofre de Pc
rote, with the intention of board
ing a steamer at some small port
and escaping from the country.
Judging from the list of captured
Officials and generals received Sun
day at the headquarters in Mexico
CITY of the liberal revolutionary
government few are accompanying
Carranza. Among them are be-
lleved to be Luis Cabrera, secretary
of the treasury; Gen. Juan Barra-
gan, chief of staff; Gen. Francisco
Murgia, commander of the train
guards; Gen. Francisco Urguizo,
sub-secretary of war and Ygnacio
BOnillas, former ambassador to the
United States.
An inventory of national funds
aboard one train, shows a great
quantity of gold and silver bars.
but comparatively little minted
coin. Pastor Ruaix, secretary of
agriculture, was in, charge of this
train. Manuel Aguirre Berelanga,
secretary of the interior and head
of the cabinet, is believed to be in
hlding as he was overheard to say
that he could not stand the hard
ship of a horseback flight.
A motor truck load of gold coin,
winch the Carranza party attempt
ed to carry off, broke down and the
soldiers appropriated most of it.
With more than $500 prisoners
already counted, it is believed that
the strong force which Carranza
took from the capital has been
completely scattered, as hundreds
of the soldiers fled into the moun-
talns when the president abandon
ed the trains. Refugees tell pitiful
stories of hardship and terrors
Nh1ph haUn,, with ~
the capital on May 7. and which |
ended in the afternoon of MAY IA. |
Hunger, thirst and bullets added |
TO the uncertainty of their fate as |
the trains headed into the fast |
closing ranks of the revolutionary
troops sweeping in from Vera Cruz |
and the Puebla mountains on both |
sides of the railway.
They express bitterness at Car
ran2a's failure to accent the safe
conduct offered him by both Gem
eral Gonzales and General bbre-
gon. 1t is believed possible, how
ever, that Carranza did not know
that Vera Cruz had been captured, |
nor that virtually the entire repub-
lie had turned against his admins
u dtlpli anu ptiSiSttu III inc at
tempt to reach Vera CruzA and
there set uo his administration in
| temporary capital.
Cavalry columns under Generals
Camarillo, Guaiardo and Gonzales
are pursuing CarranZa. The pur-
suit is difficult because of the ma
ture of the terrain, and his speedy
capture is considered improbable
unless his party is intercepted.