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Show JUilflEZ ; QUIGKLY q sc Trouble I3 Precipitated . by Half-starved Villa 11 Soldiers, Who Loot vr; Stores and Saloons , and Rob Passengers on l1, International Car. ;; TEN ARE KILLED u DURING FIGHTING 'l ni Officials at Washington I. Do Not Believe That Peace Negotiations r Will Be Affected by t Skirmish; Attempt to I Prevent Villa's Escape, i- II EL PASO, Teras, Deo. 21. Heavily armed Mexican and American troops JJ lirjed opposite banks of the Bio Grande '(' tonight as the result of rioting in Juarez. 1 One shot from south of the border, be- lieved by the United States military anil an-il thorities to have been fired on American ( troops, toppled George A. Diepert of EI i; Paso, a brakeman, from off the top of an ' FA Paso & Southwestern railroad freight 1 car. He was dead with a bullet in his a heart when a corporal's guard reached I him. His trainmates fled at the shot. ,, Later the train was pulled out of range i of Mexican cavalry that moved along j the bunk of the Kio Grande. i Two Mexicans Shot. , J Shortly afterward tno Mexicans were ' i shot at the Mexican end of the Santa ' J Fe bridgo by Mexican customs guards. t Reports of fatalities in Juarez varied j from two lo ten. , Early tonight it was stated at the j ' Cnn-an.a consulate that the generals in Juarez, who had turned the town over to the Carranza government, had control and were in conference upon the election of a military leader to take full chargo and appoint a paymaster to receivo 100,-i 100,-i 000 pesos in Carranza paper currency with which to pay off the soldiers. Unofficial Un-official reports from Juarez were that if an attempt was made to pay off in Carranza currency rioting was sure to be resumed. During the afternoon the renort gained circulation in Juarez that General' Francisco Fran-cisco ilia would roach that citv at 5 o clock, but early tonight he had not put in an appearance. Andreas G. Garcia, Mexican consul, announced that Villa had been located at the Bostillo ranch, west of Chihuahua Citv, that he would rot come to the border and that he intended to continue opposition to tho de facto government. Obregon Is Expected. I arran.a officials stated that General Alvaro Obregon was en route from Her-mosillo Her-mosillo to take command in Chihuahua They expect Obregou to reach here tomorrow. to-morrow. An order issued bv El I'aso police tonight to-night forbade Americans to cross the border to Juarez. The trouble arose when 300 Villa soldiers sol-diers reached Juarez in desperate con- ... p. ,,l ioou ann in arrears in pay. They refused to accept the surrender sur-render to the de facto government arranged ar-ranged yestordnv, until the agreement was signed bv General Manuel Ochoa An international street car was at- ! tacked and passengers, including several Americans, robbed. Stores aud saloons wre looted. Traffic across the Kio Grande was interrupted and durincr the atternoon t'nited States soldier guards ' along the river nere doubled. Agreement Yet Unsigned. During the afternoon an einissnrv reached Mexican Cousin Garcia with the intortnation that General Ochoa tia.i promised to sign the agreement to surrender sur-render and tin n his men over to the de facto government, but late in the tfav this formality had not becu cousum-mated. cousum-mated. American owucrs of several hundred thoroughbreds ciiartered at the Juarez Joi-kev olnb hastily crossed to the "United "Unit-ed States during the riotinp;. After the first outbreak Oeneral Ochoa sent guards to the racetrack. liegardiog the casualties in Juarez, General Ochoa said tonight that seven rioters were killed in one store, where they had murdered the Chinese proprietor proprie-tor and were looting:. Including; two Mexicans killed at the bridge, this would make ten known killed in "Juarez. j Alfonso Garcia, acting mayor of j Juarez., escaped from a mob by inn ping aboard a street car bound for 1-11 Paso! ; Several of the mob pursued him and oth- j ers smashed the windows with stones. A ! tourist automobile in another part of j the town was stoned and rushed for the international -bridge. Meanwhile the exodus of civilian I Mexicans to the American side had begun. be-gun. A steady stream of refugees for some time continued to cross, nianv under un-der the burden of household effects." |