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Show line s i fffi IIK Three Names of Foreigners For-eigners Added to List of Aliens Killed by Bandits; Refugee Says Man Named Fosier Was Maltreated and Burned at Stake, HOMES LOOTED; STORES BURNED Delegation of Mining Men Plan Investigation Tour of Chihuahua; Chinese Government Also Begins Probe of Banditry in Mexico. j WASHINGTON, Doc. 7. No re- ! ports ou the death of foroigncrs in Mexico liad bocn received tonight at the state department. Officials ; weio inclined to be skeptical, espe- ; ciaJly of the refugee's story of the death of Gray, as the department's latest advices from Farral after the inoccupation of that placo by Car-rrjiza Car-rrjiza uoldiera said all foreigners were safe. Eh FASO, Tcmip, Deo. 7. Threo more names were abided today to the j list of foreigners who have boen killed in Mexico by bandits, according to reports re-ports roieivcd here. (.luillormo Snvinan, son of the late General W. 1). iSn vinan of Boer war fame; Howard YYt'oUs, or Howard Gray, as ho was known in Mexico, and an American named Foster were the names added to the death roll or Villa's banditry. ban-ditry. Although they were believed to have been killed many days ago, the news of their fate only reached the border bor-der todav, when messages and refugees told of their fate. Young Snvnuin was reported to have met his death at Sun Pablo Meoqui, I'hilumhnM, near Chihuahua City. Howard How-ard Weeks, an employee of an American Ameri-can mining concern, was called to the door of his home near Parral while he was eating supper with his family, shot through the head, also by Villa bandits, and his body then hanged in the door yard, according to information brought to the border today by Spanish refugees. refu-gees. Weeks, who went by the name of I! ray, was married and had five children. chil-dren. Burned at Stake. Little has yet been learned of the third victim. A letter from a Spaniard j in Torreon to a countryman here said i an American rained Foster had been horribly maltreated and then burned to death at a stake in the presence of his1 son. The murder occurred near Torreon, Tor-reon, the letter said. The man's first name, his homo in the United States and his relatives have not been learned here. Villa 's bandits also wreaked vengeance ven-geance on Americans in Chihuahua try by looting many American homes, cam ing oi f large quantities of American Ameri-can ou ncd property and destroying what t.:ey were unable to haul uiv.iv, iiu--.-ae received here late todav from The hihuahua capital state. Home Looted. The pala:ial home of Donald B. Gillies, Gil-lies, a n A n. eric an mining ooerator, in t hih',iahua was looted of practicallv ev-er ev-er tiling it contained. l'ne piano, a i talking machine and even the carpers w e i e t a s e a. T h e f a m i 1 v h a d ilea to the border. The c.'iio store belonging to Howard Sciineidt-r, said to be a German subject, w:i-j en r "red and quantities of curios, hats shavls ami otner finery taken. I'annis Sons' store was'also looted of a new supply of footwear, another message stated. Stores Burned. A dry m.l store owned bv an Ara-' Ara-' bian company was mbbe-i uf pra.-ticallv it entire stock and almost a snli.l block of stores beloniu to Arabs and other foreigner was burned, yccording to an-. an-. other report. The buikiins were owned be l-nacio Knriqm.-z, a Carrana svm-tuS svm-tuS ratl.f-er. rt ; n tM-iimcn t aont? here rci'eivM a report today of mute than I."n Mexi- cans having been executed by Villa (Continued on Page TwoJ - KIT Ml VILLA i miciw (Continued From Pago One.) bandits, but this report was not aon-! aon-! firmed. . A delegation of American mining men ! is planning to ieavu here next week i to make an investigation of conditions j in Chihuahua City. Two" agents of the I i Chinese government are said to ha ve left Juarez todav for Chihuahua City i to investigate tho reported killing of i about sixty Chinese. Dynamited Mills. Villa ordered the Palmillo mills of the Alvarado Mining company's plant at Pai-ral Pai-ral dynamited after an effort had been made to operate it. two 1'oreisn refugees refu-gees who arrived here today an. id. Jose Ynez Salazar. Villa's second in command, com-mand, protested and they were closed down. These refugees said one of the three Iwonsky brothers, who sre Germans, was arrested and taken to the military headquarters head-quarters of Villa, hut was later released. They said Dr. Thomas Flannaa n. G. Smith! Jacob Meyer. YV. A. Scott, MelOe and the other Americans, except Howard Gray, were safe. They said bandits went to the home of Scott, searched it for" him, and. falling to find him, threw his wife and children into the street and destroyed his property. A store belonfrin to Juan Cana ati. a Syrian, was dynamited. |