The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-12-03
issued: 1916-04-01
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/nelsondaily/items/1.0386880/source.json
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note: yr *• »»"H '•• , DAILY NIWS I' CLASSIFIED ADVIRTISIMINTt Ar» an Effatlv, Sailing Fare*. -..»■-1 ii .■■■.. * VOL. 14 No. 301 Jpy ■ V'1 * FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE ■ jOF THE WESTERN ASSOCIATED PRESS. ...... .i NELSON, B. C, SATURDAY MORNING, 1, 1916 50c. PER MONTH 81 FUGITIVE; ARMY SCATTERED Brief Battle Ends Career of Mexican Bandit death OR CAPTURE A MAnER OF HOURS U, S. Troops Make Attack at t3cene of Recent Massacre (By Daily News Leased-WIre.) EL PASO, Tex., March 31.—Four hundred1 cavalrymen, under the command of Col. George A. Dodd, galloping down from the granite' slopes of the. great continental divide, have . fallen on the main body of Francisco Villa's bandits at the San Geronlmo ranch, scattering them in many directions and driving the bandit chief, wounded and crippled, to seek a hiding place in the mountains. Villa was hurried from' danger in a carriage. - The fight opened at 0 o'clock in the evening of March 29 and continued for several hours. Surprise Attack Col. Dodd, with picked troops of the 7th and 10th cavalry, fell, upon the unsuspecting Villa camp, where 500 bandits effected the massacre of 172 Carranza soldiers two days previously at Guorrero. Villa, shot through the leg and with one hip shattered, was hurried from the scene, barely in time to escape the onslaught of thej Americans. %he bandits made a brief but fruitless stand before Col. Dodd and his troopers. Then they broke and fled, lea-V-i ing 31 dead on the field, including the commander, Gen. Blizter Hernandez. Two machine guns, a -number of horses, rifles, ammunition rind equ'in- : ittenr tell mto»>Hh*^an*P':wr*,9hy' Americans, Among the known wounded is Pablo Lopez, Villa's lieutenant in the Columbus raid. The American cas- A ualttcs were four privates wounded. Fugitives Scattered ;The United. States soldiers drove the enemy before them into the' wilderness of mountain peak, desert and canyon. They halted only after the chase had led them 10 miles and /the fugitives were scattered into …
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0386880
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text