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Show REBELS DEFEAT FEDERAL ARMY Villa Wins Bloody Victory at San Pedro After Six Days Desperate Fighting. REPORT HEAVY LOSSES Velasco Forces Retire Toward Saltillo and Monterey Country Demoralized. Juarez, Mexico. April 15. The defeat de-feat of the combined federal forces by the rebels at San Pedro de las Colo-nias, Colo-nias, state of Coahu'.la, with federal losseB estimated at 2S00 killed and wounded and 700 prisonors and a rebel loss reported at G50 killed and wounded, wound-ed, It is ;cinted out here, was rcaliy the culmination of the battle of Tor-rcon, Tor-rcon, which began on March 21. While General Velasco, the federal general 'n chief, evacuated Torreon on the second of this month, his army was practically Intact and the retreat enabled him to Join the reinforcements reinforce-ments which had failed to reach him at Torreon and ' to that extent the evacuation was a' successful maneuver. maneu-ver. In any event, Velasco after his retreat, re-treat, was much stronger and more dangerous than before, for at San Pedro Pe-dro he had with him tho columns of Generals Javier de Moure, Benjamin Argumedo, Emilio P. Campa, Mariano Ruise. Carlos Garca Hidalgo, and Jo-quin Jo-quin Maas, a total of twelve or fourteen four-teen thousand troops. While desultory fighting begun almost al-most as soon as the federals left Torreon, Tor-reon, General Villa gives the duration dura-tion of the battle proper as six days, culminating with the flight of the federals last Monday. The disordered state of affairs in the Torreon region 13 illustrated by the filet that Villa's roport of victory required 24 hours v to reach General Venust.iano Carranza, first chief of tho revolution, at Qhihualr-?a. The federal 'aro reported 'p-Jiavc retired eastward In The direction of Saltillo and Monteroy, having, It is believed, be-lieved, repaired the railroad in that direction before the battle. The federals fed-erals destroyed the market building, a hotel and the property of tliq late president, Francisco I. Madero, before retiring. |