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Show jSCORES OF OESD DDT THE DESERT PLUS Starving- Rebels Stagger Into Gen. Huerla's Camp; Federals Fed-erals Marching- North. ! AT GENERAL JIUERTA'S HEADQUARTERS, HEAD-QUARTERS, NEAT? YERarO, Mexico, (May 1G. 10:30 p. in. Under the glare of ' blazing sun, the federal army pushed its way northward for ten miles today picking up at every huu-drcrl huu-drcrl yards more bodies of rebels killed in last Sunday's cnqticinent. Scores of dead dotted the desert plains. Mitnj-slarviug Mitnj-slarviug rebels, separated from the main columns on the retreat, staggered into the federal camp, half-crazed from thirst and Jijiugcr. Thoy tell stories of terrible suffering and privation and declare that liun-drcds liun-drcds of insurrectos on the retreat left their officers and scattered over the desert. Many, it. is feared, died on the barren mesas unable to obtain food or water. After repairing many bridges and the telegraph lines. General Htierta arrived here today. Last night General Tcl-lcz Tcl-lcz took the federal advance guard north. Thoy arc believed to be near Ccballos, a"bout twenty miles south of the rebel forces at TJellano. Genera Iluerta burned hundreds of boxes of dynamite and exploded nearly five hundred bombs captured from the rebels at Conejos on Sunday. The prisoners tell me that many rebels reb-els have dcscrtctL," said General IIu-orta. IIu-orta. tonight. "1 intend to move north tomorrow, though progress is slow on account, of the condition of tho railroad." |