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Show AMERICANS ARE ! CALLING FOR AID I General Rodrigues Captured Near Maderia and Number of Bandit Party Killed. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 13. General Jose Rodriguez has been captured j near Madeira, Chihuahua, by Ameri- . cans, according to reports received here. j A message received from Madeira stated that a number of Rodriguez' & men were killed and that the Amer- ; leans are calling for help. . The capture was made by Maximi- : ano Marquez. it was said. He is an employe of the Hearst interests at jfl Eabrlcora and is now at Madeira I keeping order with about 125 Amer- Ifl icans and a few Carranza soldiers. In The message stated that Rodriguez ma was met in a pitched battle, defeated III and his men scattered aud captured 19 aud killed. In General Jose Rodriguez was charg-Bjl charg-Bjl ed in firstreports with responsibility III for the massacre of the Americans at ill Santa Ysabel. Reports of Mexicans II on the train, however, charged Gen- oral Reyna, Colonel Pablo Lopez and 1 1 General Beltran with the personal dill di-ll recTion of the bandits. j Forty of Rodlguez' men were re ported captured and held at Madeira as prisoners where, it was said they will be shot as bandits. A call for help preceded the capture cap-ture of Rodriguez, later advices stated. stat-ed. The Americans heard that Rodriguez Rodri-guez and his men were burning bridges brid-ges below Madeira and called for help from Chihuahua and asked that troops be rushed there. Without waiting for the troops Marques Mar-ques attaoked the bridge burners with 125 men drawn from Americans and the garrison at Madeira. After the capture the call for help was repeated. repeat-ed. Consul Garcia has been appealed to by the state department to rush troops to Maderia. OOc |
