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Show OVEBIOOVILLA BANBiTS SLAIN IN BOATTLE Outlaws Under Baudelio Uribe Encounter Force Under General Ramas at Cusihuiriachic. CHIH L'ATIJA CITY. McxIl-o. .Sept. 'S. Over a lunulre'l Villa followers were killod, the banijit leader Baudelio Urihe was t alien prisoner, ami heavy casualties suffered by Carranza furues io a terrific fight at Cusihuririaehic. an important mining center, about fifty miles southwest of Chihuahua City, according ac-cording to a message received this afternoon after-noon by General Trevino from General Matiaa Eamoa, who was himself slightly wounded. Details of the fiht wore few and were . appended to tho request of General Ka-mos Ka-mos for surgeons and medical supplies, j A hospital corps detachment was accordingly accord-ingly rushed to the scene by train. Garrison Aids Ramos. It is stated that the garrison at Cusihuiriachic Cusi-huiriachic co-operated with the forces of Ramos, but whether they were attacked at-tacked or had been the aggressors does not appear. Baudelio Uribe. leader of the band, and Villa's chief lieutenant, was the originator of the idea of cutting off the ears of captured joverument soldiers. Many others of his command are reported re-ported to have been made prisoners. News of the fight was also received here from the telegraph operator at, Santa Isabel, who added nothing to the report of General Ramos. The general's official report was sent by way of that town, to which the hospital train has been dispatched. Not Far From Capital. Santa Isabel is thirty-three miles by train from Chihuahua City. The Mexican Mexi-can Northwestern railway makes a loop to Cusihuiriachic from tianta (Isabel, while the direct distance betwen the two towns is about thirty-five miles. Troops continue to pour into Chihuahua Chihua-hua Citv J'roni the south to participate in the Villa hunt. General Apolonio Trevino 's command arrived from Torreou today and paraded through the streets. The horses of this command were in good condition and the troops will be sent into the field in pursuit of Villa at once. General Fortuuato IMayeotte is expected ex-pected to arrive here soon with his command com-mand from the Laguna district,, near Torreon. The - command of Genera Carlos ! Azunos was en route from fSaltillo to reinforce the garrison here, and a command com-mand from Monterey under Colonel Muz- ; quiz is also on the road. i |