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Show VILLA ROUTED I IN FIERCE AND I BLOODY FIGHT Total Number of DeaH, Most- ly Rebels, Estimated at 700 by General Salazar, Fed-' eral Commander. H ONLY RUINS REMAIN H OF SANTA ROSALIA Battle Raging at the City of Sinaloa, in Which Insurg-ents Insurg-ents Claim to Have Advantage. EL PASO, Tex., Oct. 4. Meager de-tails de-tails of the battle of Santa Rosalia, Chihuahua, in which General Francisco Castro and his 4700 federal troops suo-ceedcrl suo-ceedcrl in defeating and routing Fran-cisco Fran-cisco Villa and his 4000 combined rebel forces, tend to show that the battle was a desperately fought and bloody one. General Salazar of the federal forces, in a private telegram to friend3 at Juarez, placed his estimate of tho total number of dead' at 700. The cas-ualtics cas-ualtics were mostly on the rebel side. The loss of life among non-combatants in the town, resulting from tho federal artillery fire, ho stated, was enormous. The principal buildings and most of the residences of the town were practi-cally practi-cally mined. The mission, one of the most costly buildings in Santa Bosa-lia, Bosa-lia, was badly damaged. Federals at Juarez have no news of Hi the direction taken by the rebels, who Hj were deicated in tbe fight. General Castro has not made his report of tho engagement and, aside from his mes-sage mes-sage announcing the federal victory, has not given the Juarez officials any information concerning the battle or the course taken by Villa's troops. |