Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-31 | Page 5 | Mexican Bandits Slay Two Oil Men

Mexican mm- Reign of Terror Prevails for Weeks in Fields Near Minatitlan. GALVESTON, Texas. March 30. W. H. T. Buckingham, general manager of the Aguila Oil company on the isthmus of Tehuantepec and his cashier, named Bannerman, were killed hy bandits at Xancbital on March 9, according to information in-formation brought here by passengers arriving from Mexico on a tank steamship. steam-ship. Both men were British subjects. After Buckingham had been killed, his body was hacked to pieces. These passengers also report that a reign of terror has prevailed for several sev-eral weeks in the oil fields near Minatitlan, Minatit-lan, in the state of "Vera Cruz, and declared de-clared it to be the result of German influence. in-fluence. The oil fields lie between territory ter-ritory occupied by Carranza troops on one "side and the forces of Zapata on the other. Buckingham and Bannerman were killed following a demand by the bandits ban-dits for $1500 and their discovery that the safe contained only $1300. Buckingham Buck-ingham had been in .Mexico for twenty-six twenty-six years. The next day, says the report, the bandits went up the river a few miles and killed a Mexican farmer, his wife and father and rut off the hands of the farmer's two little girls. Operations in the oil camps have ceased since March 9 and it is believed there is little prospect for resumption. The men who brought the story to Galveston Gal-veston said their friends in Mexico would be killed if their names were revealed.