Americans Short Of Food.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 31, 1913:
Supplies Taken from Women and Children for Mexicans.
Special to The New York Times.
    EL PASO, Texas, July 30.— American women and children in the town of Torreon, Mexico, are hungry and are being deprived of sufficient food by the soldiers, according to an American mining man who arrived here in a hack to-day from San Pedro and Torreon. When the American left there, the rebels had cut all the railroads, the food supply was almost exhausted, and the authorities had taken all that was left and were keeping most of it for the soldiers, giving the Americans and other civilians only enough to sustain life.
    Conditions were even worse in the interior of the State of Durango, the mining man said, as the people were without money, the rebels having taken everything they owned. The narrative was reported to Consul Edwards in Juarez for investigation.