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We had taken Bermejillo the afternoon before,-the army breaking into a furious gallop five kilometers north of the town and pouring through it at top speed, driving the unprepared garrison in a rout southward,-a running fight that lasted five miles, as far as the Hacienda of Santa Clara,-and killing a hundred and six colorados. Within a few hours afterward Urbina came in sight above Mapimi, and the eight hundred colorados there, informed of the astonishing news that the entire Constitutionalist army was flanking them on their right, evacuated the place, and fled hotly to Torreon. All over the country the astounded Federals were falling back in a panic upon the city.