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Show REBELS EXECUTE 23 PRISONERSj Bodies of Victims Lie Out All Night in Rain in Juarez Cemetery. GRAVES UNCOMPLETED t Men Scramble for Federal Uniforms Villa's Soldiers Need Clothing Badly. El Paso, Tex. Nov 17 Eleven men are known to have been executed :n Juarez since Francisco "Pancho" Villa Vil-la and his rebel forces captured the city Saturday morning. The rebel officials admit the execution of thit number merlrans who have frequented fre-quented the city since Its capture, claim that twenty-three have been ex ecuted The bodies of most of the victims iare still unburled More than twenty I corpses some of them of men ex eeuled some the bodies of victims of the battle, laid out all night In the rain In the Juarez cemeterv because graves had not been completed for them The body of t'olonel Enrique Portil-lo. Portil-lo. executed Saturday, was brought to El Paso last night for interment her-today. her-today. It was divested of its trousers trous-ers and shoes bv n rebel who was short on clothing, while It lay In thr-patlo thr-patlo of the military barracks in Ju arez Sunday. All rebels are badly in need of clothing nnd the distribution of captured federal uniforms, marie Sunday by Villa, did not go around, so there has been a scramble among the rebel soldiers for the clothing of the men executed. List of Executed The know n ictlms of the rebel vx-ecutioneers vx-ecutioneers so far are Colonel BnriquS Portillo Colonel August In t'ortlnas. Captain Jose Torres. Captain R. Benavldes. Captain Rlcardo Confreras. Chilian, unknown said to be aide I lo Guillermo Porras. personal re pre scntatlve of General Huerta for tho state of Chihuahua Jose Cordova, recent chief of secret ; service for Huerta In Juarez. Lieutenant Pablo Rlesse. Federal soldier, who tried to escape af cemetery while fllgglng graves for dead comrades, knocked down with musket and executed while unconscious uncon-scious Pablo Ybave. Juarez policeman Unknown civilian, employed in Ju arez custom house before the rebels captured It Four Sunday Executions. Only four men were executed Sunday. Sun-day. These were Captain Contreras. who was military Instructor of the feJ eral garrison In Juarez under the Hu erta regime; Jose Cordova, who had been in charge of the Huerta secret service In Juarez: Pablo Ybave. a Ju arez polbeman, who had assisted Cor dova In his work, ami the federal soldier sol-dier grave digger He ran and was overtaken by a rebel who broke h!;. rifle in the terrlfie Mow w hleh he struck The fleeing soldier fell un conscious and was then shot An American railroad uiaii was an eye n 11 aess to the affair General Francisco Castro, who com mended the federal garrison when the rebels attacked has not been lo rated. Establishing Civil Government The rebels continued the work of establishing their ne civil government govern-ment in Juarez They have given permission to the Mexico Northwest em railroad, owned by Dr K S Peaj son and associates f New York and London, to rebuild to its timber tracts south of Juarez. Work probably will start this week (ieneral Villa said the real ol a la armv will arrive soon bringing In all his artillery Two train loads arrived today Villa declares that Chihuahua I City will be attacked as soon as ho can replenish his ammunition Anon cans express fear o- uouole If Villa mobilizes bis entire armv of 7 an disciplined men on c.ie border r oo |