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Show Gen. Mercado,. Who Led March From Chihuahua Genoral Mercado was one of President Pres-ident Huerta's trusted lieutenants in Chihuahua City, who fled with his troops and six other generals when Pancho Villa started south from Juarez on his victorious march. Mercado led 2,000 soldiers and citizens, citi-zens, among the latter the wealthiest persons of Chihuahua, a very rich city, on a march of 250 miles to Preside, Pre-side, Tex. They reached the American Amer-ican border before soldiers of Villa could overtake them. Among the refugees who made the trip across the desert, were members of the Ter-ranzas Ter-ranzas and Creel families, the wealthiest in the state of Chihuahua The Terranzas are said Lo be worth at least $100,000,00(1, chiefly in land. With the Creel family they own most of the state of Chihuahua. There a lherence to the cause of Huerta has led Villa to declare confiscation con-fiscation of all their property. . The elder Terranzas, who is now in Los Angeles with some of his family, is said to have taken ?2,0C0,000 in gold with him. |