Generals Put To Death.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 21, 1913:
Two Shot by Federals, and One by Constitutionalists.
    EAGLE PASS, Texas, Aug. 20.— A story of executions of high army officers and of heavy losses of life in battle, reached here to-day in the first official account of the fighting about Torreon from the Constitutionalist point of view. The dispatches came from Gov. Carranza, and were dated Aug. 8. The siege of Torreon still was on. The Governor said the attack on Torreon was begun July 20, and continued fourteen days, during which the Constitutionalists lost over 800 wounded. Then the Constitutionalists stopped active attack, concluding to starve Torreon out, and began the seige.
    Gen. Bravo, commanding the Federals, Carranza said, discovered a plot among some of his officers to desert to the Constitutionalists. Bravo promptly put to death two Generals, Pablo Lavin and Epimeneio Escajeda, and also Col. Luis Caro, Gen. Cheche Campos, likewise sentenced to be shot, escaped, and offered his services to Carranza, who reported that he arrested Campos, tried him by court-martial and had him shot.

    LAREDO, Texas, Aug. 20— All Americans in Torreon are reported safe by passengers who left that city Aug. 11 and arrived here yesterday. A serious outbreak of typhoid fever is feared, however, owing to heavy rains having flooded part of this city. The Federals expect another attack on Torreon soon. Two trains between Torreon and Monterey were destroyed by dynamite in two days. No one was killed.