Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-31 | Page 2 | American's Compelled to Remain in Torreon

AMERICAN'S COMPELLED TO REMAIN IN TORREON EAGLE PASS, Tex.. Aufj. 30. Invested Invest-ed by 10,000 rebels and defended by 5000 federals, Torrcon, Coahulla, Mexico, holds a number of Americans who have been refused permission to leave the besieged city, according to threo American refugees refu-gees who arrived hero today. Tho trio, Frank and Milton Chissum and Andrew i Odel, escaped after General Bravo, federal fed-eral commander, had said no Americans could quit the place. They procured mules and made the journey of COO miles to Pledra N'esras, the rebel headquarters, head-quarters, opposite Eagle Pass. The men wild the federals In Torrcon burn the dead every day and that there has been much sickness In tho town. Scarcity of food 19 causing much suffering among: the poor. Incident to the investment of the city, I