They were given an order to leave their homes and return to the United States on July 28. Within two days, almost all of the colonist had fled, with the hope that this would be a temporary exile. But when some of the residents returned in the autumn of 1912 and later in 1915, they discovered that the warring factions had burned most of the settlers' property and little could be salvaged from the rubble. Most of the colonists resettled in Utah and Arizona. A few of the original settlers returned to Colonia Dublan and Colonia Juarez, but none of the other six colonies were ever resettled.