Millard County Chronicle | 1912-07-25 | Page 2 | Sixty Killed When Bandits Attack Train

SIXTY KILLED WHEN BANDITS ATTACK TRAIN Zapatistas Explode Mine Under Train and Open Murderous Fire Upon the Passengers. Mexico City. More than sixty per sons were killed and many were wounded In an attack by Zapatistas on a passenger train between this city and Cuernavaca, Morclos, early Saturday. The ZapatlBta. said to number 500, placed a mine under the railroad track which exploded as the locomotive locomo-tive parsed over It. The overturned engine hardly had settled when the ZapBtlstas sprang up from all sides and poured a murderous fire Into the train. First the object of their' attack was a second-class coach In which were riding a federal military escort with a captain and two lieutenants. The federals fed-erals got out of Uie car as quickly as possible, and answered the fire of the assailants, but their efforts were futile. fu-tile. The command, with the exception excep-tion of five wounded and two who escaped, were killed. Thirty passenger In the second class conches were killed and many wounded. In the first class coach no one was killed, but one was dangerously danger-ously wounded and may die. The conductor, con-ductor, an American named Alter, Is not expected i to live.