Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-10-09 | Page 2 | General Alvarez and Mexican Soldiers Executed

I I GENERAL GEAL ALVAREZ AND ANDI I MEXICAN SOLDIERS EXECUTED LAREDO Tex Text Oct 9 Federal Federal General Alvarez and his staff and I federal soldiers were executed Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day day- in under orders of General General Gen Gen- er eral 1 Francisco Villa of the constitutionalist constitutionalist forces according to information information tion from reliable sources brought hero today With the city of Torreon the tho rebels robes captured practically all nil o 01 of tho the federals' federals arms and artillery Tho battie battle bat bat- tle tie lasted four days with heavy losses to both sides Three hundred refugees many of them Americans left Torreon before belore the capture of that cit city by bj the constitutionalists con- con and are making their way overland o to the border according to toO a dispatch received here hero last ni night ht They are expected to reach Laredo Friday Drawn Out by Ruso Ruse It is learned that the constitutionalists gained the tho advantage e which resulted in the capture of Torreon Tor Tor- reon through a ruse With tho the battle h General Villa withdrew his his forces a portion of which he start ed cd on an apparent retreat toward Santa Rosalia Believing that the entire rebel army bad had been put to flight a n large force of federals started in pur- pur 4 suit euit When the government troops were well wen on their way however the J main nain body of rebels slipped into the city and aft after r a sanguinary battle gained pO possession