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Show 80 PRISONS PUT 10 DEATH 111 CHIHUAHUA Codies of Those Slain in Battle Removed From the Streets and Vreckage Cleared Away. LATEST ACCOUNT OF DARING RAID Authorities Did Not Believe Villa Would Attack the City Until the Fight Started. CHIHUAHUA CITY, Sept. 18. Forcos of government soldiers have beon detailed to bring order out o the chaos created by Villa's Hidalgo day attack upon the state capital. Several hundred bodies, those of men and animals, have been removed from the streets and buried outside the city. Buildings which suffered from gunfire and menaced the safety of pedestrians aro being dynamited. dyna-mited. Tramway tracks which had been torn up are being repaired, and scores of workmen arc engaged in restoring re-storing the city's telephone, and telegraph tele-graph communication. Eighty prisoners, taken in the engagement, en-gagement, 'have been executed. These include M. Choas, formerly Villa's chief of staff, and Mariano Tames, who, as a colonel in Juarez, recently attempted unsuccessfully to induce the garrison there to revolt. The federal and municipal palaces suffered suf-fered most heavily in the battle, huge trees in the Plaza Hidalgo being literally literal-ly stripped of their limbs by the steady stream of lead poured through them. The bandits rode their horses inside the palaces and tore from their hangings costly tapestries, paintings and mirrors. Furniture was broken into splinters and doors pulled from their hinges. Bodies f men and auiiuHls lay about on blood-soaked blood-soaked carpets. Reports Not Credited. Although numerous rumors were current cur-rent here' last week that the city was to be attacked, the report was not generally gen-erally credited. After the engagement, however, it developed that throughout the night before Villa's men had been concealed about the' outskirts of the town, listening to the merriment of the independence day celebration and waiting wait-ing the signal to attack. Four separate attacks were launched at the town after its residents had retired re-tired for the night. In a drizzling rain, just before dawn, the outlaws crept from their hiding places and closed in ou the Carranza sentries. Answering the challenge chal-lenge with cries of ""Viva Carranza!'' thev overpowered the guard, but General Gen-eral Trevino quickly rallied his troops and concentrated the infantry and cavalry cav-alry about the palaces, while the artillery artil-lery took station on the hills overlooking overlook-ing the city. One force made for the penitentiary, where the release of the prisoners was effected by distracting the attention of the guard in a fierce attack upon an adjacent cuartel. Ammunition Sought. Another force attempted to seize the recently-arrived artillerv, a third made for tho palace, apparently in an attempt to seize ammunition stores believed to have been eotieealed there. The fourth column attacked a schoolhouse used as a barracks. Prisoners taken in the engagement said they were led by Villa Martin Lopez and the substitute chiefs, Uribe, Taran'na, Murjjn ami PadilUi, and that nil but Villa participate-l actively in the r'i;;ht. Tin- bainlit leader, on a hill throe miles to the northwest, wan seen with field glasses bv or't'icers at tho garrison. The liVisrmcrs "added that when the attack at-tack was made th--y were being pursued to the southeast by government troops under 'ieneral Huerla Vargas and C!en-13 C!en-13 r a ! ( 'a ve.us. Neither of these commands com-mands participated in tlie battle, however. how-ever. Government eavalry are pursuing the fleeing bandits to the northwest into t lie Santa Llara canyon district, but thus far no reports have been received here from General Matias Kamos, commanding. command-ing. 1 |