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Show uu t REFUGEES ARE ! BACK IN EL PASO 5 El Paso, Tex., Jan. 14. Fifty-two ; Americans, including a number of ; women and children, arrived here to-l to-l night at 7:15 o'clock from Chihuahua I City, the region where aljeged Villa , bandits slaughtered eighteen lorelgn- ers last Monday More than 150 Americans still re-" re-" main in what Is considered the dan- gerous zone. ; Tho latter, it was hoped, would , reach American territory aboard a . special train Monday on a train sent from El Paso last night and which, according to advices received by TJnlt-i TJnlt-i ed States officials, arrived at Parral tonight. The refugees who arrived . (tonight said the special train passed through Chihuahua City this morn-: morn-: Ing. "Oh, it's good to get homo!" said a number of refugees as the train crossed the Rio Grande into American territory. Tho train bearing the refugees also brought two American soldiers who were picked up in uniform by members mem-bers of the Carranza train guard, eighteen miles south of the border. General Gabriel Gavira, commandant at Juarez said ho would turn the soldiers sol-diers over to an American officer tomorrow? to-morrow? Tey disappeared last Sunday Sun-day and tonight could say only that they did not know how they got Into Mexico, where United States soldiers, in or out of uniforms, are not permitted per-mitted to go at any time. It was long past dark when the refugee train wit hits guards of more than 100 Carranza soldiers from Chihuahua, Chi-huahua, drew into Juarez. The coaches were lighted by candles stuck on the backs of the wooden seats. Through the partly opened windows wafted the odor of tortillas and enchiladas, en-chiladas, cooking on the sheet iron stoves of the Juarez station peddlers, and the savory odors seemed to whet the appetites of those refugees who were not too tired to eat. The train was met by a party which included General Gavira, the Juarez commandant, Andreas G. Garcia, Carranza Car-ranza consul at El Paso, and Z. Jj. Cobb, collector of the port of El Paso. Mr. Cobb quickly passed the entire party and immigration officials consumed con-sumed little time in searching for contraband, permitting the train to proceed to this side of the boundary. Once again on American soil, the refugees were whisked into motor cars by waiting friends and the majority ma-jority of them hurried to bed. Many of the party left the border only last Saturday In company with Watson and the other Americans killed by the bandits at Santa Ysabel last Monday. One of them said that the massacre occurred in a railroad cut where General Villa previously had held up trains in his earlier career ca-reer as a bandit. All the employes of the American Smelting & Refining company from the Chihuahua smelter and the employes em-ployes of the El Potosl company, came on the train, as well as a score of men. women and children, foreign residents of Chihuahua City. The scarcity of troops at tho Chihuahua Chi-huahua state capital was confirmed by arrivals who said that two hundred and fifty men was about tho total of the Carran7a forceB there. On January Jan-uary 10, the day of the reported battle bat-tle at Escalon, between the forces of Argumedo and the Carranza troopB from Chihuahua City, It was reported, troops had moved out of the capital to the south. American Consul Thomas D. Edwards Ed-wards of Juarez made representations today to General Gavira, commandant at Juarez, -to tho effect that the state department directed to afford protection protec-tion to the Mormon colonists of the Casas Grandes district in Chihuahua district. Frequent attempts have been made by Colonel Edwards to induce tho Mormons, consisting of 100 men and about 400 women and children, to come to the border, but without avail |