Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1914 — FEDERALS WON BATTLE AT TORREON, MEXICO [ARTICLE]

FEDERALS WON BATTLE AT TORREON, MEXICO

Meager Reports Indicate That General Villa Was Repulsed With Very Heavy Losses.

A dispatch from Mexico City states that the war department makes the claim that the federals decisively whipped General Villa’s army at Torreon, driving, back the constitutionalists with frightful losses. The federals were gaining a victory after a hard fight, it is claimed, when two generals with eight hundred reinforcements for the Huerta cause arrived and delved into the pursuit of the demoralized rebels.

Dispatches Wednesday indicated that Villa had entered a suburb of Torreon and was gaining a victory. The later dispatches say that this was a ruse of federal General Velasco to ambush Villa’s army. The federal reinforcements are said to have made the distance from Hlpolito to Torreon in fifty armored automobiles. The rebel losses are reported to be 2,000. Only meager details of the battle have been received in the United States. Whether General Villa, the constitutionalist leader, escaped with enough of his army to make another attack is not known.