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Show . MEXICANS HER x ifl MIKRS Killing Takes Place at Magistral, in the State of Durangx. FJj PASO, TexaR, rarch 15. A Mext-can Mext-can mining man arrived here today from Magistral, Durani?o, and reported to liia employers that Villa fotves entered Mhr-istral Mhr-istral ten days nsro and killed two Americans. Amer-icans. Lou Zeijrler and C. A. Wynn, and a number of the Mexican minlnsr mfln employed there. 'Phis report has not been confirmed from ot'rlcial sources, Wynn is said to ha ve a sister somewhere some-where in Now York st:ite, while Zeipler has been In Mexico many years, according accord-ing to American mini he? mon who have operated in that pant, of thp republic. The Magistral company Ah owned by a Gorman syndicate. No reports were received re-ceived regarding the destruction of any of the mine property. , EL PASO, Texas. March 15. Franoisco Villa captured Parral. Chihuahua. Satur day, defeating the Carranza forces there, : according to a report received by gov- ! errmient agents late todnv and forwarded to Washington. Villa then led his forces rf?T the mountain and started toward Thihuahua City, with the intention of at-tacking at-tacking the state capital, according to ir the same source. WASHINGTON. March 15. Reports of heavy fighting between Mexican troops and Villa bandits, at Trlncheras, forty miles west of Santa Ana, came to the war department today bv way of No-gales. No-gales. General Gomes, commandir the de facto troops, and the bandits, under command com-mand of General Reyna. began fighting on the morning of March 13 and it still was in progress at noon the following dav. Eight automobile loads of wounded de facto troops were reported taken into Santa Ana. Major General Pershing has reported that the last of the national guard troops on the border will move .homeward by March 31, four days earlier than had been expected. |