| Show murderous savages attack railway stations and massacre the em aloyes many being butchered los angeles colonel max son vice president of the national irrigation congress and secretary of the board of education of reno nev who has been spending the past few weeks in the state of sonora mexico arrived in los angeles on wednesday with a graphic story of the massacre of mexicans and whites which oc burred at the little station of lancho on the Y R P railroad according to the statement of max son his train stopped an hour at lancho while there rumors were re calved that the were upon the karpath warpath war path and that the few people in the neighborhood of the station and railroad were in danger the station master a man named thompson be the matter and he said he and his wife would remain at their post the train bearing colonel maxson and party had not left the station more than an hour when the descended on the little party of dexl cans and americans and butchered four agent thompson and his wife escaped by boarding a work train that pulled in at the time the train ap feared after four of the people had been killed and thompson and his wife defended themselves back of the barricaded doors of the station As the work train appeared the indians withdrew the train bearing colonel maxson and party continued to a station fifteen miles farther along the line and then as the signs of the desperado ing became alarming the party decad ed to return the train sta ted back toward lancho and when it arrived the station house had been burned and demolished and tour human bod les lay along the tracks the party stopped a few minutes in the hope that survivors might be found and taken to a place of safety while the train was at the ruins of the station the desperadoes appeared in the distance but did not come with in range of the few armed people on the train not many miles along the road the scene as duplicate 1 our more dead bodies of mexicans and americans were discovered along the tracks the little band at his station had been able to repulse the attack of the with the loss of but four of their number the remaining mem bers of the company refused to leave on the train but said that they stand off the indians until the next day when the euralea could reach the spot and summary justice could be meted out to the murders it cap aured |
