Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-19
WERE l0sT,' SAYS
 CARRANzA, WHEN
 NE TAKES TO HILLS
How Fugitive President Left Train as Rebels Seized
 Ii, Is Told
ENVOY OF NEW REGIME
 VISITS THE U. S.
Metrone, Labor Leader, May be Named as the Ambassador-Rail Traffic is Resumed Between
 Tampico and Monterrey

Mexico City, May 1s.-"We are lost. Goodbye, gentlemen"
 These were Carranza's final words
 before his flight from the besieged trains in the early afternoon of May IA, while pausing momentarily before a crowd of terrified civilian refugees a few miles east of San Marcos, ac- companied by few intimates and guarded by what special dispatchers
 term "a very small cavalry force The fugitive president corssed the narrow valley through which the Mex ican railway passes, stopped for a few moments to watch the liberal revo-
 lutionary forces occupy the stalled trains; then disappeared among the mountains.
 It is believed certain that Carranza is heading northward toward the coast by way of Cofre de Perote, with the intention of boarding steamer at
 some small port and escaping from the country Judging from the first of captured officials and generals re- ceived Sunday at the headquarters in
 Mexico City of the liberal revolutions ary government, few are accompany l ing Carranza. Among them are be- lieved to be Lous Cabrera, secretary of the treasury.
 An inventory of the funds of the
 national treasury aboard one of the trains shows great quantity of gold and silver bars, but comparatively little minted coin.
 Manual Aguirre Berelands, secre- tary of the interior and head of the cabinet, is believed to be in hiding.
 A motor truck load of gold coin which the Carranza party attempted to carry off, broke down and the sol- diers appropriated most of it. z With more than 2,50O prisoners ,al-3 readw counted, it is believed that the strong and heavily armed forces which
 Carranza took from the capital has been completely scattered. as hum
 dreds of the soldiers fled into the
 mountains when the president ,aban-s doned the trains. Refugees tell piti- full stories of hardships and terrors
 which began with the flight from
 Mexico City on May and which end- ed in the afternoon of May IA. They express bitterness at Carrnn-
 za's failure to accept the safe conduct
 offered him by both General Gon-s zales and General Obregon. It is be- I1eVcu. nOWcVeT, that OdTTdHZd pOSSl- | bly, did not know that Vera Cruz had been captured nor that virtually the
 entire republic had turned against
 his administration and persisted in the attempt to reach Vera Cruz and
 set up his administration in tempo-
 rarv capital.
 Cavalry columns under Genernl
 Camarillo, Guajardo and Gonzalez are
 pursuing Carranza. The pursuit fsa
 difficult because of the nature of the
 terrain, and his speedy capture is c0n- sidered improbable. Mexico City, May ii. via Ell Paso Junction, May 18.-President Carran- za's trains are still stationary between
 Apizaco, Tlaxacala. and San Marcos,
 Puebla. according to reports arriving; 1 here this afternoon.
 Several revolutionary forces, which
 have been opposing the passage of these trains have repulsed attacks by troops under General Fraicisco Mn guia. which were guarding Carranza and his companions.