Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-25 | Page 12 | Villa Followers Torpedo Train

VILLA FOLLOWERS TORPEDO TRAIN JUAREZ, Mexico, Nov. 21. Villa followers, fol-lowers, commanded by Epifanio Holguin, attacked the Mexican Central railroad station at- Villa Ahumada, eighty miles south of here, at ;; o'clock tins morning and later torpedoed asouthbound freight train on the same railroad. According to the official account or the affair, given out by Major J. Gomez Tagle, in command of the garrison here, Hoi-gum's Hoi-gum's Land, which consisted of Highly men. was driven oif after an engagement lasting less than an hour. Drawing off to the north fhe rebels placed explosives explo-sives on the track and wrecked the freight train, several cars of which were burned. The southbound passenger, following fol-lowing close behind the freight, was warned in time and returned to Juarez. Major Tagle said he had received no report re-port on tho casualties, but it was unofficially unoffi-cially reported that several wero killed on both sidts.