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Show Bail's Dei Jsln Doubt I Typhus Fever la Raging In Northern Mexico. Few Doctora In the Country El Paso, Texas, April 17. Clenor-nl Clenor-nl Gavlra, Carranza commander at Juarez announced tonight that the Mexican telegraph wires between Juarez and Chihuahua City had been blown down near Pearson about noon and that for this reason ho -was un-ablo un-ablo to learn any further details of tho reported discovery of tho body of Villa. At the samo tlino a tolegram filed nt Chihuahua City, presumably be-foro be-foro the Interruption to tho wlro service, ser-vice, was received by the Associated Press from Consul Letcher saying Hint nothing was known In tho stnte capital regarding tho finding of the bandit's body. These two circumstances combined combin-ed to relnforco tho growing skepticism skeptic-ism hero as to the truth of the story that death has ended tho career of tho fugltlvo brigand. Tho old story that ho man who ls really dead Is Pablo Lopez, tho notorious butcher of Santa Ysabel and that Villa has deliberately used his death ns tho basis of a falso report of his own do-cease, do-cease, was revived. This story was retold today by an American owner of a largo ranch In tho Guerrero district, dis-trict, who said ho had received It from his ranch foreman and bellowed bellow-ed It to bo true The confldenco of Moxlcnn oiucinis hero nnd in Juarez thnt Villa ls dead has not, however, diminished, outwardly out-wardly nt lenst. It was pointed out today that If the body had been brought to Cuslhulriachic It might tnko tho better pnrt of n dny to transport trans-port It from thero to Chlhunbun City Tho roadbed between theso two poIntR Is In a deplorable condition, llko thnt of all other railroads in northern Mexico. Typhus Fever Epidemic Thero nro only threo engines on tho rond nnd nil threo nro In a very bnttered nnd rlckoty condition. An nvorngo of four or flvo miles an hour ls normnl on tho rnllrond and Cusl-hulrlachla Cusl-hulrlachla Is sixty miles from Chihuahua. Chi-huahua. With hopes of Villa's death dwindling, attention hero wns directed direct-ed today to a far deadlier nnd moro Insidious foo, with which reports say both Amorlcans nnd Moxlcans nro confronted. Reports received hero today to-day by tho American rcpresentntlvo of large raining Interests In Mexico stated that typhus fover was raging In northern Moxlco and was assuming assum-ing tho proportions of a great "Pi domic. Theso reports snld that the Mexl-con Mexl-con peons, 111-nourlshcd and living under tho most unsanitary conditions wcro almost helpless to resist tho ravages of tho disease Thcro nro few doctors in tho country nnd almost al-most nil of tho American physicians who formerly lived thcro havo fled across tho border. Tho fow Americans Ameri-cans who have been entering Moxlco from hero in tho Inst fow weeks hnvo taken tho precaution to carry a supply sup-ply of bottled wator with them, as thero ls llttlo water to bo found In northern Chihuahua which U ls safo to drink. In tho American rofugco colony hero tho reports of tho spread of dlseaso and of growing distress nro declared to bo moro likely to bo In-ndequnto In-ndequnto thnn exaggerated. |