Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-08-18 | Page 1 | Rebels Defeated

REBELS DEFEATED. EAGLE PASS, lex.. Kvg. 18. Const! tutionalists were defeated in their three days ' battle with federals last week near Abasolo. about 100 miles south of here in Coahuila. They retreated Saturday Satur-day and yeeterday declaring they had not sufficient ammunition to reply to the federal tire. About 7000 men were engaged en-gaged on both sides. No estimate of killed and wounded haa reached here, although several wounded constitutionalists have been brought to Piedra Negra. Jeu Carranza, brother of the constitutionalist consti-tutionalist leader, has gone to the front with reinforcement today. The result of the federal success seems to be driving- oft a wedging northward north-ward almost to the center of fTarranza's stronghold and thia wedge seems designed de-signed to separate him from his military capital at Piedra Negrss Carranza for weeks has been in the vicinity of Torreon on the southweetern edge of Coahuila. far toward the interior of Mexico.