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Show VILLA CAPTURES CITVJHARRAL AMERICANS IN THAT SECTION RE-PORTED RE-PORTED IN DANGER OF WRATH OF BANDIT. German Subject Roughly Treated by Villa's Men, Who Believed He Was an American. Passenger Train Looted. El Paso, Texas. American nining men, who have interests in Parr;.!, reported re-ported from Chihuahua City to have been taken by Villa trops, are rmch concerned over the fate of the nine Americans known to be in Parral. This concern wjs ir-ereased by news from Chihuahun City that the bandits who held up the Mexican Central Cen-tral passenger train at Laguna sta'ion, assaulted Dr. Steven Haffner. a German Ger-man subject, because they thought he was an American. This they say is an indication of what may happen to the nine Americans in the Parral mining min-ing district. After shooting the twenty-nine Car-ranza Car-ranza military guards of the passenge: train Villa bandits looted the train, robbed the passengers and even took the clothing from the women passengers. passen-gers. Mining men and ore freighters here who are thoroughly familiar with the country in the vicinity of Parral say that Villa probably moved on Parral from Santa Rosalia, following the Conchas Con-chas river to Pilar de Concha, a distance dis-tance of forty-five miles from Santa Rosalia, and then marched south forty-five forty-five miles against Parral, entering the town from the north, from which direction di-rection it is the most accessible, they say. Villa is said to have a grudge against Gen. Luis Herrera, the Carranza commander com-mander in Parral, and to have declared that when he captured Parral he intended in-tended to kill Herrera with his own hands. |