OCR Text |
Show INSURGENTS RAID HOMES Ranches of Fleeing Mormons Looted By ' the Mexicans Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Mexico, July 31. Rebel scoldlers looted many Mormon homes In this colony last night. All the Mormon families have fled to El Paso for safety, following their disarmament by the rebels, and only the men remain. They are powerless pow-erless to protect t hemselves and, while General Salazar, In command of the rebels, had two of his soldiers sol-diers executed yesterday for holding up and robbing a number of Mormons Mor-mons en route to the railroad, ho has not made any attempt to stop his men from looting the unprotected homes of Americans. The flight of Americans to the border bor-der continues. Last night's and today's to-day's trains carried many Americans from Pearson, Madera and other localities lo-calities outside the Mormon settlements, settle-ments, including many men, The defeat of the federal command from Sonora by the rebels at OJltos leaves the rebels unopposed ln their entry to Sonora. More Refugees Arrive. El Paso, Tex., July 31. Refugees continue to pour into El Paso from northern Mexico, where the rebels aro disarming them. About a hundred refugees arrived last night, tho larger portion of them men. Nothing can bo heard from the Americans at the Dolores mining camp, northeast of Madera, in Chihuahua, The rebels on taking the town seized all horses and mules and the Americans have no way of getting out, as no railroad rail-road operates to the camp. About 100 Americans live thero. |