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Show By MEXICAN FOES FUGITIVE CHIEF MEETS DEATH WHILE ENDEAVORING TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. Fleeing From Rebel Forces Who Had Overthrown His Government, President Presi-dent of Mexico and Loyal Companions Com-panions Perish. Mexico City. -President Carranza, who fled from this city on May C and who took flight into the mounliiins of I'uebla following a battle jiear Diu-conada, Diu-conada, was killed at 1 o'clock Thursday Thurs-day morning at Tlaxacalalongo, according ac-cording to official announcement here. Carranza's companions, the names of whom are not as yet known, are declared to have shared his fate. The attack which resulted in the death of the president was led by General Rodolfo Sen-era, it Is said. It is reported that Carranza had shaved off his beard in the hope that lie might avoid detection, and it is said that the transformation was so complete that lie might walk through the streets of the Mexican capital unrecognized. un-recognized. Venustiano Carranza, elected president presi-dent of Mexico, March 11, 1917, by the largest vote ever cast in a presidential presi-dential election in his country, stepped from political obscurity to national ! and international prominence on the graves of the hopes of General Yic-toriano Yic-toriano Huerta, the usurper, and his followers. Simultaneously with General Iluer-ta's Iluer-ta's coup de-etat and the assassination assassina-tion of President Madero, the news went out to the world that General Venustiano Carranza, elected governor of the state of Coaliuila in 1911, refused re-fused to recognize the usurper and would resist him by force of arms. Born of parents in comfortable circumstances cir-cumstances in Cuatro Cienagas, state of Coahuila, December 29, 1859, Venustiano Venu-stiano Carranza was educated in the public schools of bis native "state and later studied law at the Mexican capital. capi-tal. When he was admitted to the bar, however, affection of the eves Dre- Vented him from practicing, and he returned re-turned to his native state to become a rancher. His experiences as a rancher first, then as judge, senator ' and finally governor of Coahuila, made Carranza familiar with the agrarian problem, the root of political unrest in Mexico. Aided by Francisco Villa, and his followers, Carranza finally became the leader of Mexican affairs. General Huerta resigned the provisional presidency presi-dency July 15, 1914, and a month later General Carranza made his triumphal entry into Mexico City, Huerta having fled to Spain. Shortly afterward independent revolutionists, revo-lutionists, led by Zapata, General Pas-cual Pas-cual Orozco and others, commenced. Dissension between Villa and Carranza, Car-ranza, which began at the Torreon conference, rpncliprt n Mimnv Cnntnm ber 23, 1914, when Villa declared war on Carranza. General Alvaro Obre-gon Obre-gon became Carranza's leading general, |