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Show BANDITS 1R0ER ! LisliY PASSENGERS MEN, WOPil EN AND CHILDREN ARE TAKEN FROM TRAIN AND RUTHLESSLY BUTCHERED. Military Train Allowed to Pass Without With-out Attack and Then Helpless Ones Killed, the Dead Being Left Beside Tracks. Laredo, Texas. An indiscriminate massacre of nearly 100 wemen, children chil-dren and ('arranzu soM'.crs who were travelir.K on a train near (.'out rums, state of Morelos, which was attacked by Zapatista followers, is reported In Mexico City newspapers received here Sunday. After the attack on the train th dead lay in piles beside the tracks. The passenger train, convoyed by a military train eight kilometers m advance, ad-vance, was halted in a mountain wilderness wil-derness after the military train had been allowed to pass unmolested. For fifteen minutes the Zapatistas kept up the slaughter, slaying men and worn- en, who prayed for mercy, and killing ! the babies who accompanied their I mothers, the papers declare. Soldiers Sol-diers aboard the passenger train were without their accouterments and unable un-able to offer any resistance. Among the list of dead given in the Mexico City papers is the name of Colonel Garido Alfaro, two majors and three captains. When a relief train reached the scene of the attack several hours after it occurred the Zapatistas had scattered into the hills. They looted the express car of its valuables before departing. |