Father Of Orozco Held By Our Troops.

New York Times 100 years ago today, September 16, 1912:
Captured on This Side of the Border After Defeat of Rebels at Ojinaga — Son Not Taken.
AMERICAN MINE SEIZED
Mexicans Win Battle at El Tigre — One American Hurt — Rebels Take New Stand.
Special to The New York Times.
    EL PASO, Texas,. Sept. 15.— Ojinagra, the Mexican border town opposite Presidio, Texas, wascaptured by the Federals this morning. Pascual Orozco, Sr., father of the head of the Mexican revolution, fled across the border and was arrested by American troops. News of the capture was received by Gen. F. Z. Steever, by wireless from Marfa. At first it was thought that Orozco, Jr., the rebel leader, had been caught.
    Col. Pablo Garcia Orozco was also captured by the American troops when he crossed the line, and is being held with the General's father at Presidio. The latter, who was military commander of Juarez under the rebel regime, is being held at Presidio and will probably have a preliminary hearing there if the American Secret Service agents positively identify him. There has been a warrant for him here for the past year on the charge of smuggling ammunition, and this will be used to hold him to await further developments.
    The arrest of Orozco's father was made by Capt. Mitchell of the Fourteenth Cavalry, stationed in the Big Bend country, half way between El Paso and San Antonio. As the officers of this command have been stationed at Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio, they were unable to identify either Col. Pascual or Col. Pablo Garcia Orozco. Capt. Mitchell telegraphed Gen. Steever that it was impossible to locate Gen. Orozco, as his whereabouts had been unknown since the Federals had first attacked Ojinaga. It is thought that he has retired to the interior with a body of his troops to recruit his straggling followers.
    The arrest of Col. Orozco will have little effect upon the revolution, as he has never taken more than a secondary part in the movement which was started by his famous son.
    The attack on Ojinaga, which drove Señor Orozco across the river, was made by Col. Manuel Landa of Gen. Trucy Aubert's command. He had 350 men and was unable to drive the rebels out of San Francisco, a small town near Ojinaga. He took seventeen prisoners, who will be executed under the suspension of guarantees. The fatalities were slight.
    The Federal troops won a costly victory yesterday in the vicinity of Oaxaca, when they, succeeded in routing an attacking force of 4,000 Indians, led by Zapatasts, after three days' fighting. After falling back from the State capital before the heavy Federal artillery fire the rebels captured San Felipe and Etla, but were subsequently driven from these towns, not, however, before they had sacked both places.
    In Etla the rebels dynamited the railway station and municipal palace. Several merchants who attempted to protect their property were hanged, and a number of stores burned and sacked.
    Fighting between the Federals and the Indians continued all day yesterday on the ranches and in the little towns surrounding Oaxaca. At San Felipe the Government forces lost 41 killed and the rebels 150 killed, several hundred wounded, and a number of prisoners. Among the prisoners were a few recognized as Zapatasts.
    In their retreat the rebels burned several bridges on the Mexican Southern Railway between Oaxaca and Puebla.
    Reports from Puebla tell of the growth of the Zapatista movement in that State. In the State of Mexico bands of rebels were operating near Toluca, the State capital, yesterday.
    In a battle at Jajalpa, south of Toluca, yesterday the Federal forces won a victory and captured 21 prisoners.