Show FIENDISH W RK OF Colonel H B Maxson Arrives in Los Angeles from Scene of Massacre in Mexico MANY PERSONS BUTCHERED SEVERAL EVERAL AMERICANS AM AMONG THE VICTIMS Los Angeles Dec 26 Colonel H B Maxson Maxon vice president of the National Irrigation congress congre and secretary of the board of education of Reno fleno Nev Nov who has bas been spending the past few weeks In the state of Sonora Mexico arrived d In Los Angeles today with a graphic story etory of the massacre of Mex Mexicans kans and whites which occurred at the little Ittle station of Lancho on the C Y It R RP HP P railroad last Saturday afternoon According to the statement of Max Maxson Maxson son Eon his train stopped an hour at Lan Lun Lancho Lancho cho eho Willie While there rumors were re received received received that the were upon the warpath and that the few people in inthe Inthe the neighborhood of the station and railroad were In danger The station stationmaster stationmaster stationmaster master a man named Thompson be belittled belittled belittled the matter and he said he and his ills wife would remain at their pot poet Butchered by The train bearing Colonel Maxson and party had not left the station more than thap an hour when the de descended descended on the little party of Mexicans Mexicans cans and Americans and butchered four Station Thompson and his wife ife escaped cs aped by boarding a no work train that 7 I pulled in at the tho time The train ap appeared appeared after four of the people had been killed and Thompson and his wife defended themselves back of the barri barn barricaded barricaded doors of the station As the work train appeared the Indiana with withdrew withdrew withdrew drew The train bearing beaning Colonel Maxson and party continued to a station fifteen miles farther along the line and then thena as a the signs of the desperado uprising became alarming the tho party decided to return The train started back toward Lancho tancho and when it arrived the sta station station station tion house had been burned and de demolished demolished demolished and four human bodies lay along Jong ong the tracks tra ks Kept Out of Range flange The party stopped a few minutes in the hope that survivors might be found and taken to 10 a place of safety While the train was at the tha th ruins of the sta station station statIon tion the desperadoes appeared appe red in the distance but did not opine come within range of the few armed people p Ople oh the train The bodies bodle of the victims were still warm when Maxson saw them and With the aid of others on the train they were wem given hasty burial Not many miles along the road the thes scone scene s cne was duplicated Four more dead bodies of Mexicans and Americans were discovered along the tracks The little band at this station had been heen able to repulse the attack of ot the with the loss of but four of their number The remaining members of the com corn company company pany refused to leave on the train but said that they could stand off the In Indians Indians Indians until the next day when the ru rales could reach the tho spot and sum summary summary summary mary Justice would be meted out to the th murders if It captured |