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Show PANIC REIGNS ! IN CHIHUAHUA Federals Evacuate City and Thousands American Citizens Citi-zens Are in Terror. ALL FEAR FOR LIVES Residents Having Teams Pack Up All and Follow Military Mili-tary Trains. Dallas. Texas, Oct 31 A dispatch to the Dallas News from El Paso today says Chihuahua City, Mexico, was evacuated by federals yesterday, leaving the city open to capture without with-out resistance by Pancho Villa's neb-els. neb-els. Villa's men had occupied the outskirts of Chihuahua before the abandonment. The federals were said to have retreated toward Juarez. Juar-ez. The dispatch adds: 'Thousands of American and Mex-I Mex-I ican citizens who were unable to board the ten troop trains are panic stricken They have no means of getting away from the stricken city and fear Is held for their lives. Many believe that followers of Orozco will be given no quarter by Villa during the occupation of the state capital. What few residents of the city have horses and wagons are following In the wake of the military trains, carrying car-rying all their possessions wlih them.'- The fear for Orozco's sympathizer-is sympathizer-is based on resentment, expressed by rebels against him for fighting in the federal army. Mexico City. Oct 31 The rebel ! force which for several days had been j attacking Monterey, has been driven I. from the vicinity of the city according accord-ing to private and railroad telegrams received at the capital. Seven hundred federal troops under ' Generals Telles and Maas reached the city today after a nine days trip , from Laredo |