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Show CITY SPATTERED WITH BLOOD. Dead Men and Horses Piled High in Streets of Torreon. Chihuahua. A dispatch from an Italian army officer with the rebel artillery-was received Sunday afternoon from Torreon. It says: "Dead horses and dead men are piled high in the streets and plaza and the ruins of the city are spattered spat-tered with blood. It is impossible to estimate the number of federal dead, but superficial inspection of public pub-lic places would indicate that no less than 2,000 bodies are scattered aboul. It will be a task to get rid of the dead, hut a gigantic funeral pyre probably will be built and the bodies of men and animals incinerated. "Among the dead are some of the picked rurales who fought against Zapata in the south and were sent north to attempt to check Villa's victorious vic-torious march southward. When Villa Vil-la entered the city only the thirty who were made prisoners remained to tell the tragic story of their defeat. Thursday when the federal garrison saw that defeat was certain they threw down their arms and took to flight." |