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Show LONG LINE OF MEXICANS SEEN Four Thousand Civilians and Federals Straggling Toward Texas Border Town. GREAT NEED OF FOOD Federal General Fortifying Vil-lage Vil-lage Civilians to Cross Into United States. Presidio. Texas, Dec. 9 For as far as the eye could reach there stretched stretch-ed out over tho desert south of Ojlnaga, Mexico, opposite Presidio, "oday the straggling end of the Mex lean federal arrny and the civilians vho fled from Chihuahua to safety on the United States border It was I expected the refugees would continue to arrive at Ojinaga all day. A few j who reached the American side said the exodus Included more than four j thousand The federal troops, Including the most Important federal generals In the north, continued in their work of fortifying the village. This tak en with the fact that General Vnez Salasar Immediately on his arrival communicated with Mexico City, Indicated In-dicated that the federals Intended to make a defense on the border, at least until the could recelvo orders from Huerta goernmenL Food supplies sup-plies of which the federals were In great need will be sent across the i!ver. but the United States troops have been Instructed to guard dose ly against any Infraction of the neutrality neu-trality laws. r?he civilians who endured the hardships hard-ships of tho eight-day mnrch from l Chihuahua mostly on foot rather than face the invasion of Chihuahua City by the rebels, are to be allowed to cross. They will be taken fifty ilea by automobiles and wagons to Marfa, thence to El Paso and other cities. The story brought bv the refugees was that they left Chihuahua on j three trains hoping to rover the distance dis-tance to Falomlr, the end of the uncompleted un-completed railroad about a third of the way across the desert, but that. a short distance out of the city, the first train was wrecked All then ban to start the Journey on fool, the federals first dynamiting the engines and burning more than 100 cars to prevent their falling Into the hands of tho rebels 1 nr. |