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Show FEDERALS FLEE IN PANIC FROM PURSUING REBELS Closely Pressed Federals Cross the American Line, Only to be Driven Back by Soldiers. Presidio, Tex. The northern division divi-sion of the Mexican federal army apparently ap-parently was utterly demoralized Monday Mon-day night With Its dead and wounded stretched over the hills and some of its soldiers fleeing in a panic across the United States border, only to be pushed back again, the 4,000 federals who had made a dramatic retreat from Chihuahua to Ojinaga, the little Mexican Mexi-can village opposite here, were scattered scat-tered in all directions as a result of their first battle with the rebels. Forty-two hundred rebels sent by Gen. Francisco Villa from Chihuahua literally sent terror through the federal feder-al ranks. Their flight was preceded by a three hours' battle', begun after dark, in which the rebels, marching through the deep canyons south of Ojinaga, completely wiped out the federal fed-eral outposts. The newB of defeat at La Mula pass and La Mulato, giving the rebels an unobstructed pass to within firing distance dis-tance of Ojinaga itself, caused a frenzied fren-zied retreat among the federals. Abouf four hundred of them plunged into the river to seek safety on the American side. Thar were forced back again by Major McNamee, commander of the American forces. A mutiny also developed in the Ojinaga forts. General Salazar and General Orozco, believing their men were about to desert, stood with drawn revolvers, threatening to shoot those who did not obey. ,A number of the federals fell at the feet of their generals. |