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Show Many More Wounded in Battle for Possession of Villa Ahumada. Fight Lasts Three Hours j After Bandits Are Attacked At-tacked by Federals. EIj PASO, Texas, 'June 24. Sixty-three Villa rebels were killed and many more wounded Saturday In a fight between federal troops and Villa forces for possession pos-session of Villa Ahumada, according to an official military dispatch given out here today. According to the dispatch, General Qulroga, federal cavalry commander, attacked at-tacked the Villa forces in Villa Ahumada Saturday afternoon. A fight which lasted three hours followed, with the federal cavalry charging the Villa positions inside in-side the town. Finally the rebels were forced to retire, leaving their wounded In the town, according to the dispatch. Quantities of ammunition and other war elements were captured. No estimate esti-mate of the federal casualties was given. Villa representatives here today asserted that the Villa forces killed sixteen federal fed-eral soldiers and track workmen sent out from Juarez to repair the Mexican Central Cen-tral railroad. Work of Yankee Troops. J"EJAREZ. June 24. How American troops scattered the Villa rebels, forced them to walk barefooted over the white sands of northern Chihuahua and destroyed de-stroyed their morale was told to General Francisco Gonzales at military headquarters headquar-ters here late today by Villa's telegraph operator, who escaped at Villa Ahumada and reached here today. This man is a military prisoner here, and his name is withheld. ' - He said Villa's men were scattered over the country between Samalayuca and Villa Ahumada after the pursuit of the rebels by Colonel James J. Hornbrook'a cavalry, their horses were ridden down and abandoned In the sand wastes, men dropped from their saddles and died on the desert from wounds or exhaustion, and wounded officers and men suffered alike for lack of medical attention and surgical dressings. The telegraph operator was impressed tiy VMla at , Coy am e, Chihuahua, last September, he said, and had been forced to accompany the rebel leader through- out his operations in the north. He was stationed with Villa's staff during the j battle of Juarez, and told General Gon- i zales many details of the battle which had been unknown here. Commanders Wounded. He said Nicholas Fernandez, one of Villa's leading generals, was shot in the right arm Sunday night and went until Monday night without medical attention. Jldefonso Sanchez, another Villa general, gen-eral, was shot in the foot. Martin Lopez's command of 500 was reduced to 200 by the fighting In Juarez and the shrapnel shells of the American artillery near the racetrack, the man declared. He said the Villa headquarters reached Samalayuca, thlrtv miles south of Juarez, at 4 o'clock the Monday afternoon after the crossing of the American expedition, and that Colonel Hornbrook's men .vere at San Jose, a short distance north, when the pursuit was a-bandoned. He said he saw General Felipe Angeles superv .sing a band of rebels tearing up the railroad track at Samalayuca to hamper pursuit by federals or Americans. He said Villa's own bodyguard then had less than 125 rounds of ammunition per man, while many of the troops had none. Driven From Town. The telegraph operator said he left Villa Ahumada late Friday, after Villa's outposts reported the approach of General Pedro Qulroga' s federal cavalry, which engaged the Villa forces Saturday, drlv- j Ing them from the town, killing sixty-three sixty-three and wounding many more, according accord-ing to General Qulroga's official dispatch to General Gonzales. The operator left before the battle started. Colonel Martinez, a Villa officer, wounded during the Juarez battle and hidden in a house in (he Juarez valley, sent a courier to General Gonzales late last night, saying lie was dying and wished to give- important military information infor-mation to the general before he died. General Gonzales hurried there In his automobile, au-tomobile, but the Villa officer died before he could make a statement. Commend Government. AUSTIN. Texas, June 24. A resolution resolu-tion was adopted by the Texas senate today commending the federal government govern-ment for "its expressed determination to protect our citizens in Mexico," and especially espe-cially commending "army officio Is for their efforts to protect life and property along the border." Another resolution Introduced "would strongly urge" the federal government "to recognize that a state of war exists In northern Mexico between two indepen-I indepen-I dent and distinct factions." and that citizens citi-zens of the I'nlted States be permitted to sell supplies both to the Carranza government gov-ernment recently proclaimed by General Angeles as provlslonel president. The resolution was referred to committee. |