Rebels Capture More Towns

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 28, 1913:
Said to Have Entered San Luis Potosi, Culiacan, and Mazatlan.
    EAGLE PASS, Texas, July 27.— Not only Torreon but San Luis Potosi, capital of the State of that name, has been captured by Constitutionalists, according to Lieut. Col. Luis Horcasitas, one of the Constitutionalist forces, who arrived in Piedras Negras early to-day. It is also reported that Culiacan and Mazatlan, in the State of Sinaloa, have surrendered to the rebels.
    Horcasitas said he was overtaken at Cuatracienegas Friday by a small body of Constitutionalist cavalry which took part in the assault on Torreon. They told him the Constitutionalists attacked Torreon Sunday, and the fighting continued all of Monday and part of Tuesday, when the Federals surrendered. The Constitutionalists captured a car-load of ammunition, many rapid-fire guns, twenty cannon, and 1,600 prisoners.
    At San Luis Potosi, Horcasitas said, the Constitutionalists captured an entire train load of provisions and munitions of war.
    Four thousand men have been dispatched to attack Saltillo, according to Horcasitas.

    EL PASO, July 27.— In spite of the refusal of the Federals to give information regarding an engagement between guarding parties on the last freight train sent south from the border yesterday and a detachment of Poribio Ortega's Constitutionalists near Ranchera, 62 miles south of Juarez, it was learned that a military train arrived in Juarez to-night carrying thirty-seven wounded Federals and several dead.
    Telegraphic communication is cut near the scene of the battle. A relief train, sent out tinder command of Gen. Inez Salazar at 3 o'clock to-day, returned with the wounded men. No reliable information could be learned of the fate of the passenger train that left Juarez yesterday. It carried several Americans returning to Chihuahua City.