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Show PASSENGERS MEET DEATH IN THE CUMBRE TUNNEL Nine Americans and Forty or More Mexicans Perish When Train Runs Into Bandit's Trap. Juarez, Mexico. The nine Americans Ameri-cans and forty or fifty Mexicans whose fate has been a mystery since the destruction de-struction of the Cumbre tunnel on February 4, were suffocated. This information was received here Saturday Satur-day evening at the head quarters of the Mexican Northwestern railroad. The tragedy is laid at the doors of Maximo Castillo, the bandit leader. Railroad men. here and in El Paso are furious at Castillo's act. On Tuesday Tues-day twenty-two of his men were captured cap-tured and executed by the rebels' and the next day, apparently .in revenge, he captured the freight train, ran it into the south end of the tunnel about 300 feet and there set 'fire to it. The passenger train entered the death trap from the north unsuspectingly, unsuspect-ingly, probably traveling at its usual rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. When the engineer discovered the trap it was too late. Nothing but charred bones and buttons but-tons were found by the rescuing party which, with the aid of oxygen helmets and pulmotors, succeeded in penetrating penetrat-ing the Cumbre tunnel on Sunday. |