Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-12 | Page 11 | Train Wrecked and Bridge Burned by Mexican Bandits in Texas

Train Wrecked and Bridge J Burned by Mexican Band Bandits ts in Texas 1 4 o r rI I i 1 t o Li r k 4 o g 11 i F i 4 L' L i 4 S S. S H fr t a 2 S so ree I These two scenes show I what took O i place within six miles mUes Brownsville the other day when M Mexican bandits tore up a rail from from the track of the thes s St St. LoUIs iuis Brownsville Texas railrOad railroad railroad rail rail- road a a- a train atrain Ten Mexicans oL A u were wera shot b by posses the following dayA day A state health officer who was was a passenger passenger pas paz was shot shot- to death by the bandita bandi ban ban- di dita and ancl the engineer was waz killed when his locomotive overturned overturn d. d One other life lIte w s lost In order ordel to prevent posses s and United States troops reaching th the scene from Brownsville the bandits burned a bridge between bet the scene of ot the wreck and the city How Iw thoroughly thoroughlY thor- thor they did their w work rk may be seen seen from the rails ralls hanging across the burned piles