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Show 18 GIRLS CAPTURED 10 im m JUAREZ. Mexico. Jn "0. A rrert was receive i here late t day that Pran-! Pran-! cit-co Vila's band of men. ith Villa ! and Mantino Lop.z in co:r.:r.ar.d, was march ir.g over lax d from the lclnity of j Santa Rosalia toward Caa? Grandes for the purp-.s? of atuikir.r the federal column col-umn which '.eft he:e toiay for S'onors. Two trvop trains lefi here today for Casas Grandes and a third followed toil to-il Icht. T'r.rr ere hpproximate'.y 7' troops on the three trains. Ii was reported re-ported to be Vil a's p'.n to aua-'k thi- ci-l-::vin in io;;i tei mountain rsses and destroy them by unit as t . . c y m j r c h oer the nimn tains af tr leav ir.? their trains. Manv women and child; en accompanied ac-companied the federal troops, only sixty of tiie wives of the o: fleers goinu through the United States In bond to Sonora. Additional confirmation of th massacre mas-sacre of trfl in ft u a rd s a n d work ni e n at Imhz station Saturdav were received here tonieht. The number of federal soldier s kiiicd was oifina'.ly announced as 10. Of the forty-seven track workmen on the train forty-two were killed and five escaped, making a total of 142 killed. Manv of the passengers on the train which "was robbed ar1 burned at Rellano January 2J were forced . to marvh to the Villa camp, where thev were made to disrobe and exchange their clothing for the ragged clothes of the Villistas. according ac-cording to a passenger who reached here to-lav. He said Villa was there in person per-son and it was in his camp that the eighteen girls who were taken from the train were held. A bridge was burned at LagTjna station, sta-tion, seventy-five miles north of Chihuahua Chi-huahua Citv". Monday night and trains on the Mexican Central were delayed until un-til yesterday, passengers who arrived to-dav to-dav said. Villa scouts were held responsible re-sponsible for the fire. Three officers of German descent were seen amontr the federal soldiers who nrrivei here today en route to Sonora. One was a captain and two were lieutenants. |