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Show RAGGED ARMY ON M MARCH Mexican Federals and 1,000 Women and Children En Route to Narfa. Presidio. Tex.. Jan. 16 All the 3,300 Mexican lVderal soldiers and thy 1000 women refugees who sought sate-'y sate-'y in the United States after the capture cap-ture of OJinaga had left Presidio today to-day for their march to Marfa, froui which point they are to be transported transport-ed by railroad to Fort Bliss, uear El Paso. The ragged army was scattered for 87 miles along the mountain road lo Marfa. closely guarded by United States cavalrymen. General Salvador Salva-dor Mercado, until recently Hucrta"s military chief in northern Mexico rode in an automobile with General Francisco Castro. Other federal generals rode on hor ses. The common soldiers auJ the women refugees, many of them carrying carry-ing children in their arms, made the march afoot. Major McXamee. of the United States border patrol, rode at the head of tlfe long column with an escort of troops from the Fourteenth cavalry, while two troops brought up the rear. Each of the hunyry horses which were brought across the river with the routed Mexicans, bore at least two riders, usually a man and a woman, burros carried domestic belongings, packed in bundles on both sides, with children perched on top Many In Merry Spirits. Despite their ragged appearance which suggested only misery' and hunger, hun-ger, the soldiers and women were in merry spirits Now and then groups of soldiers broke into song while others at the stopping places ate with great eagerness the rations supplied bv the American troops The whole procession winding through the mountain moun-tain passes was a picture of primitive movement of people before the days of railroads. It will be Monday night before the refugees arrive at Marfa to board the ten trains which await there to carry them to El Paso. nn |