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Show COAST TOWN MEXICO CITY. May 13. (By The Associated Press). "We are lost! Good-bye, gentlemon!" These were Car-ranza's Car-ranza's final words before his flight from the besieged trains in the early afternoon of May 14 th while pausing momentarily before a crowd of torri-fied torri-fied civilian refugees a few miles east of San Marcos, accompanied by a few Intimates and guarded by what the special dispatches term "a very small cavalry force." The fugitive president crossed the narrow valley, paused for a few moments mo-ments to watch the liberal revolutionary revolution-ary forces occupy the stalled trains, then disappeared among the mountains. moun-tains. Carranza Heading For Coast. It is believed certain that Carranza is heading northeast toward the coast by way of Cofre De Perote, with the intention of boarding a steamer ?.t somu small port and escaping from the country. Judging from the list of captured officials and generals received receiv-ed Sunday at the headquarters in Mexico Mex-ico City of the liberal revolutionary government, few are accompanying i-.i i n -..J....l mil uiJ L -IJIUCT Carranza Among them are believed to be Luis Cabrora, secretary of the treasury; General Juan Barragan, chief of staff; General Francisco Murguia, commander of tho train guards; General Gen-eral Francisco Urguizo, sub-SGcretary of war, and Ygnacio Bonillas, former ambassador to the United States. Great Quantity of Funds Taken. An inventory of national funds aboard one train, shows a great quantity quan-tity of gold and silver bars, but comparatively com-paratively little minted coin. Pastor Kuaix, secretary of agriculture, was in charge of this train. Manuel Aguirre Berelanga, secretary of the interior and head of the cabinet, is believed to ! be in hiding as he was overheard to say that he could not stand the hardship hard-ship of a horseback flight. , I A moor truck load of gold coin, which the Carranza party had attempt-led attempt-led to carry off, broke down and the .soldiers appropriated most of It. I Wtih more than 2,500 prisoners already al-ready counted, it is believed that tho .strong force which carranza took from the capital' has been completely scattered, scat-tered, as hundreds of the soldiers fled' , into the mountains when tho president abandoned the trains. Refugees' tell pitiful stories of hardship and terrors I which began with the flight from the J 'capital on May 7, and which ended in I the afternoon of May 14. Hunger, thirst and bullets added to tho uncertainly uncer-tainly of their fate as the trains head-Jed head-Jed into the fast closing ranks of the revolutionary troops sweeping in from Vera Cruz and the Puebla mountains 'on both sides of the railway. j |