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Show ViLLiSTAS WBEOK PASSENGER TRAIN "TWENTY-FOUR PERSONS KILLED WHEN TRAIN IS DERAILED BY MEXICAN BANDITS. f Thousands of Dollars in New Car. ranza Currency Taken and the Passengers Robbed, Survivors Being Stripped of Clothing. I Eagle Pas, Texas. Twenty-four persons were killed. It was stated by authorities in I'iedras Negras opposite bere Monday, in the derailment by bandits of a through passenger train from Mexico City to Laredo, between Quoretaro and Empalme Gonzales. The bandits carried away all the valuables val-uables they could find as well as much of the paissengers clothing. Many thousands of dollars In new (Carranza currency was said to have been taken by the bandits. Many passen&ftra escaped from the train and walked nine miles In their ibare feet to Kmpalme Gonzales, where a relief train was made up. The first train from the south In three days arrived at Piedras Negras on Monday. Among the passengers reported robbed were two army paymasters, 'who lost the funds they -were carrying, carry-ing, one $20,000, and the other $10,-000 $10,-000 In the new Carranza currency. A paymaster of the El Oro Mining company com-pany lost $35,000 In the new Carranza purrency and an American named (Hill lost $3,000 In gold. The express car Is said to have contained con-tained a million pesos In the new currency, cur-rency, but owing either to the desire of the bandits to get away hurriedly or 'from ignorance of the contents of he car, it was not broken open, al-thugh al-thugh it left the track and ' rolled pown the embankment. |
