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Show RAILROADMEN HELD BY BANDIT Officials and Employees of the Mexican Mexi-can Northwestern Railroad Are Prisoners of Castillo Juarez, Feb. 7. Seven American railroad men nro beliovcd to bo prisoners, pris-oners, tho great Cumbro railroad tunnel tun-nel through tho continental divide is In ruins nnd tho Mexican Northwestern, Northwes-tern, passenger train which left ho'o last Wednesday mornlug is n charred wreck at tho mouth of tho tunnel as tlie result of tho depredations of members of the Maximo Castillo gang of bandits. This Information amplifying reports last night from Chihuahua was received re-ceived here yestorday at the headquarters head-quarters of tho railroad. It corrected correct-ed last night's statement that It was the Drake tunnel, a smaller bore south of Cumbre, that was destroyed. Tho Cumbro tunnel Is tho largest on tho road 3,700 feet long, hnd required 18 months to construct. The names of tho prisoners reported report-ed hero nre: M.J. Gilniar'tiu, superintendent of the read. H. Schoeflcld, superintendent of terminals at Juarez. Leo Williams, assistant manager of the railway commissary. E. J. McCutcheon, engineer of het p.'iEsenger train. J. E. Webster, conductor. II. F. Murders, express agent. A sevontH American is believed to havo been on this train and Americans Ameri-cans were also employed on tho freight train which was used to flro the tunnel. Villa's Orders General Francisco Villa, commander command-er of the rebel forces and now ht Chihuahua Chi-huahua was enraged at the news and In a telegram" which passed through hero yestorday Instructed General Fellpo Maclas, operating In tho Casus Cas-us Grande3 district, to shoot every man who could, not satisfactorily account ac-count for his' "presence there. -The bandits 'ore believed to be operating in two forces of about 30 mon each as, Cumbre is a hard day's ride from El Valle, near Castis Gran-des Gran-des where 22 of tho robbers were captured cap-tured nnd shot last Tuesday. The other detachment beliovcd to ho under Castillo himself did the wrecking probably in rovenge far tho fate of his men at El Valle. Ho captured cap-tured a train of stock curs Wednesday Wednes-day and ran It into -tho tunnel where It was Bet on Are. The tunnel, was a blazing mass that even'ng when tho passenger train from Juarez was captured and sent headlong into the roaring furnace which waa belching flames and smoke from Its mouth. Castl'lo then burned two neighboring neighbor-ing bridges, ono of them constructed of steel, and ran two locomotives over ov-er tho embankment In the deep canyon can-yon below |