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Show AMERICANS DRIVEN ounneico THIRTY MEN AND WOMEN DE. PORTED FROM GUANAJUATO BY CARRANZA. Driven From City Amid the Jeers of Mob and Forced to Find Their Way to Border in Vehicles of All Descriptions, El Paso. Thirty Americans, sis of them -women, deported by the Car-ranza Car-ranza authorities from Guanajuato, Mexico, have reached the border Sunday Sun-day night after a harrowing experience. experi-ence. They were in a filthy Mexican prison pris-on twenty-four hours without food and with but little water. They were driven driv-en from Guanajuato City amid the jeers of Mexican mobs, incensed by official of-ficial agitators. The railroad from Guanajuato to Si-lao Si-lao is out of order as a result ofthe ravages of six years of revolution and the fleeing refugees were forced to find their way out in vehicles of all descriptions. The refugees, four of whom are in El Paso, the others being at Eagle Pass and San Antonio, managed to get an abandoned street car which fitted the narow guage railroad to Sialo. But there were nine refugees who were not able to reach the car before it left and the reached Silao by horse and handcar and ibullock carts. The trip took them three days. One of the refugees said: "It was June 24, right after the Car-rizal Car-rizal massacre, that our troubles began. be-gan. The officials raided our homes, searched them in unceremonious fash-don, fash-don, and then lugged us off to the cuartel. "They told us that if we wanted anything to eat we could get it wherever wher-ever we might find it. (Finally we bribed a guard who managed to get food to us. We were imprisoned twenty-four hours, then ordered to 'get out.' " |