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Show VILLA BANDITS BREAK THROUGH MURGUIA'S LINE JUAREZ, Mexico. Feb. 15. Seven trains with troops left Chihuahua City for the south yesterday and two trains filled with wounded have returned with Ca.rranza soldiers wounded in lighting at La Cruz, about ninety miles south of the city, passengers arriving in Juarez from the south announced tonight. From their accounts. Villa troops succeeded suc-ceeded in breaking between General Mur-guia's Mur-guia's lines and isolating a part of his command to the north while the main body of government forces was in the south below Jimenez. The feeling in Chihuahua at the time the train left for the north was that Villa was striking north toward the city. Hearst Ranch Raided. Julio Acosta, a Villa commander, raided raid-ed the Xaherachic ranch, belonging to Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, two miles from Madera. Ma-dera. Chihuahua, on February ?, killing two Mexican ranch hands, wounding several sev-eral others, completely looting the ranch houses and driving off a number of horses, according to a message received here tonight. Madera is 250 miles southwest of Juarez and is the center of the Pearson Milling company's interests. The same message also told of the looting of the Pearson company's store there, according to local Hearst representatives. Villa Missing. Francisco Villa has disappeared, after promising his men that he would return at the end of three months and give them some "startling" news, according to reports brought to the border today by passengers from Mexico. His main column col-umn is commanded by Xidolas Hernandez Hernan-dez in southern Chihuahua in the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Jimenez, and the Villa bands appearing in that section recently have been unusually considerate- of the rights I and property of the inhabitants, according accord-ing to tlie same source. One explanation given for their good conduct is that with Villa's disappearance disappear-ance his followers here have turned over to the so-called "legalista" movement. |