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Show CITfPL Garrison Made Prisoners, According to Reports From EI Paso. ETj PASO, Texas, May 12. According to information, received here from Parral today, Francisco Villa retook that city Thursday and made prisoners of the garrison gar-rison of 260 men under Colonel Gomer. who had occupied tho town but two days before. The garrteon was outnumbered and made little resistance. Repeating his action ac-tion when he took Parral on Easter Sunday, Sun-day, Villa freed the prisoners and told them to go to work. Casualties were light on both sides. Colonel Gomez, commander of the garrison gar-rison of Parral. escaped during the engagement, en-gagement, Villa commanded the attack in person. The exact number of men in his command was not known, but it is but part of the forces operating under I him in the south. WASHINGTON, May 12. Five bridges on the branch of the National Hallways ,of Mexico between Torreon and Chihuahua Chihua-hua City have been destroyed by Vlllista forces, according to advices received here from Mexico City quoting a "high official'' offi-cial'' of the Mexican government. The dispatches said that when traffic Is restored re-stored again every train will be preceded by an "exploring train" carrying a guard of federal troops large enough to repulse any rebel raid. Troops are being moved from Torreon to protect workmen engaged in rebuilding rebuild-ing the wrecked bridges, the dispatches added. TJOUGLAS, Ariz., May 12. Five members mem-bers of the band of twenty-two outlaws which raided Cananea, Sonora, Mexico, Friday morning, killing five policemen and escaping with money and loot total- ing about $s0,000 In value, were reported : in Cananea todaj' to have been captured ! by Sonora rural g-uards under General Carlos 'Plank, Sunday, and to have been executed immediately. No official confirmation con-firmation could be obtained, however. General Plank has been in the field with : his command of 300 cavalry and is reported re-ported to be scouring the Sierra Azul district, dis-trict, where the bandits were believed to havo sought refuge, with great thoroughness. thorough-ness. As a precautionarj- measure, two troops ol the First United States cavalry, under command of Major Wilson Heaton, were sent to San Bernardino ranch, sixteen miles east of Douglas, to strengthen the border patrol. |