Train Held Up, Robbed and Finally Burned: Twenty Passengers Murdered Mexico City, Jan. 11.
A military escort was powerless to prevent the looting of.a train and the murder of most of the passengers between Guadalajara and Mexies City.
'Twenty armed, disguised bandits boarded a train, attacked the ort with knives and killed them all, except seven who were seriously Injured, After that they rifled the train and robbed the passengers, summarily dispatching those who' resisted. Finally they set fire to the train with the bodies of the victims and escaped on the engine.
Communications are cut. Fuller details are Incking. Troops have, been ordered to pursue the bandits.
Later. the recovery of 20 yond recognition. there are other bodies in the debris of the coaches The engine, on which the bandits escaped, was found derailed several stations from the scene of the rage.
Fifty Persons Murdered on Train Later 'A tale of horse nraetieatly unco quailed in Deexiean history was told By the survivors of the train outige on their arrival, penniless and Sinipped of all thei' Belongings.
appears that no. foreigners were illled. though all the solders Belonging to the escort and many Mexiean* passengers were brutally slaughtered. A. total of fully 50 persons were murdered, The butdits Tocked the doors of all the coaches and cut the throats of the soldiers they slept or shot them in cold Blood." They then proceeded to rob the pancengers, merellesly Killing fany Who resisted and nian who did not resist. The coaches Fesembled 2 shambles, Wounded Lett in Murning Coaches The survivors plainly heard the agonized shrieks of the wounded mingled. with the crackling of the Durning soodvork, Foreigners a Pullman ear, which was also in-merated, are" reported to have facaped though their. whereabouts are. unknown.
The guard, the hero of the tragedy, narrowly exetped. death, tramped all night and got through telephone message "to <Guadalajara imploring uld, A relief train way_quickly. on the scone, As the Bandits made off in the locomotive they stopped at Yureguard Station und lvoted the town, After which they resumed thelt Might fo the mountains, where they tore up the Wek.
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