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Show BANDITS BUTCHER HELPLESSVIGTIMS STORIES OF RUTHLESS ACTS OF BRUTALITY COME FROM WAR STRICKEN MEXICO. Garrison Wiped Out and Many Non-Combantants Non-Combantants Killed, While Train Is Ambushed and All on Board Brutally Butchered. Mexico City. Two hundred dead were lying in the streets of Ixtapa Monday night after Genevevo De Lao's band of Zapatistas halted on its march to Toluca, the capital ol the state of Mexico, only fifteen miles north. The town was garrisoned by about 100 rurales. Fighting occurred ground Tenan-cino Tenan-cino earlier In the day and 600 federals feder-als quartered there defeated the rebels. The latter then concentrated their efforts on the smaller garrison of rurales at Ixtapa. At the end of the fighting all the rurales were dead and the total ot two hundred included many of the townspeople as well as Zapatistas. The rurales founght desperately. Thirty-six soldiers and more than twenty passengers were slaughtered when a passenger train was attacked from ambush north, of Ticuman, 110 miles south of Mexico City. According to reports, the leaders of the rebels made absolutely no effort to restrain his men from acts of brutality bru-tality greater than any that have yet marked the campaign in the south. The wounded, pleading for their lives, y were struck down without pity and even looting was held in abeyance until slaughter was complete. . Not satisfied with robbing their victims vic-tims in the ordinary manner, the fingers of men and women were chopper" off with hatches, that rings they -wjjre might be more quickly obtained. ob-tained. Ornaments were torn from ears of women and their bodies were otherwise mutilateC. |