Villa To Attack Juarez.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 30, 1913:
Ortega Ordered to Join Him — Rebels Massing for Fight.
    EL PASO, Texas, July 29.— Col. Toribio Ortega, Constitutionalist Commander at Guadalupe, forty-five miles southeast of Juarez, told American newspaper men who visited him to-day that he had been ordered by Gen. Francisco Villa, in a message sent by courier, to break camp to-night and begin the march to effect a junction with Villa's main body at a point south of Juarez, with the object of beginning the projected assault on Juarez.
    Ortega, professes to have 1,100 cavalrymen. He says the reinforcements that have been received by Villa from Sonora, under Col. Juan Dozal, makes the total strength in the main column 2,000. The combined troops are 3,200, according to this estimate. They are said to have several machine guns, but no field artillery.
    Advices to the United States Army headquarters to-day say that several small bands of Villa's men have been seen at Palomas in the last few days. About half of them were at Guzman, seventy-five miles southwest of Juarez, two days ago, according to a Mexican cattleman.
    John A. Wright, general agent in Juarez for the Mexican National Railways, said this evening that the passenger, freight, and troop trains which started from Juarez last Friday reached Chihuahua City on Sunday without mishap, except the third freight train, which was brought back to Juarez from a point near Samalayuca, after its locomotive failed. No trains have been run over the National since, except for Federal scouting parties halted a short distance from Juarez.
    Federal officers in Juarez admit there was a skirmish with rebels near Samalayuca in connection with the recovery of the last freight train, but they minimize the reports of wounded and killed.