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Show TORRECH TAKEN BY VILLA AFTER BLOODY BATTLE Storms Trenchfi and Barbwlre Entanglements En-tanglements ?nd Captures Large Number of Prisoners. Juarez, Mexico. Torreon fell completely com-pletely into the hands of the rebels at 10:20 o'clock Thursday night, according ac-cording to announcement made here hy General Veaustiano Carranza. The meager bulletins, excitedly announcing an-nouncing victory after the bloodiest series of battles known to modern Mexico, said that Villa captured a large number of prisoners and that the fleeing remnant was being pursued. pur-sued. Whether Velasco. the federal commander, com-mander, was captured was not stated. There was heavy fighting Thursday, it is understood, and the end came when, after capturing the three remaining re-maining barracks held in the city hy the federals, the rebels stormed the trenches and barbed wire entanglements entangle-ments ot Canyon de Guaracha. The prisoners captured are believed to have been the defenders of the barracks, bar-racks, while the troops in the canyon, can-yon, which forms an egress from the hillgirt city, were able to fly. The campaign against the federal stronghold of Torreon, the main object ob-ject of the rebel campaign, began suddenly sud-denly two w;eeks ago, after General Villa had spent months in making thn most careful preparations. The rebel loss in the campaign is said to be well over 2,000 in killed aniJ wounded. Trains loaded with the latter lat-ter have been arriving daily at Chi-hauhau Chi-hauhau for the last week. The rebel commander moved with a rapidity hitherto unknown in Mexican Mex-ican warfare. He worked his men in shifts, and as one shift became exhausted ex-hausted he sent fresh hosts against the enemy. |