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Show IassaST i 1 BY REBELS I 1 H Mexican Town Raided M and 200 Killed Train M Is Ambushed ' ;jiH Mexico City, Aug. 13. Two hundred iJH dead were lying In the streetB of Ix- VUH tapa last night after Genevevo Dc tiH Lao's band of Zapatistas halted on ' i $RM Its march to Toluca, the capital of th IH state of Moxlco, only fifteen miles r-'SI north. The town was garrisoned by (feK about 100 rurales. IIH Fighting occurred around Tenan- Yl clno earlier in the day and GOO feder- 1 as quartered there defeated the reb- . WM els. The latter then concentrated E their efforts on the smaller garrison jH of rurales at Ixtapa. H At the end of the fighting all tho -HI rurales were dead and the total of Fl 200 Included many of the townspeople ''HI as well as Zapatistas. Tho rurals : fought desperately. iSfl The spoils taken include 14,000 VI rounds of ammunition. The town was ' ' looted. News of the fighting was brought i ;B here tonight by passengers from To- I I'H Iuca, who made the trip In an auto- 'H mobile. Toluca no.w Is garrisoned Jy lM more than 500 federals, but the pas- H sengers from there said the residents H were almost panic-stricken, believing iH a battle imminent rJH Rebels Wreck Train. 3 Mexico City, Aug. 1. Thirty-six 4 soldiers and more than twenty pas- 31 sengers were slaughtered by Zapatls- 11 tas In a canyon one kilometer north' ' jflfl of TIcuman, 110 miles southeast ot Mexico City, Sunday, when a passen- &fl ger train, southbound from this cltj", ffiM was attacked from ambush. Only M meager details reached this city last ' night. So far as known, only a part fH of the train crew escaped. 'H News Reaches Capital. '' ,H The first news of the attack was H sent to Mexico City by Conductor ' H Marine and Collector Domlnguez,- who, H although wounded, had managed fo' H make their way to Yautopoc, twelve IH miles away. They were forced to H steal through the Zapatista lines, and H did not arrive at the telegraph station H until yesterday afternoon. IK After the murderous rifle fire had, K ceased the rebels swarmed down, ..tho -Hf hillside and set fire to the .three cars m composing the train. A few of-tho ''l wounded crawled out of tho right of SM.m way, thus escaping the fate 'of those -flH who were unable to leave the cars, B who were burned. vfB According to reports, the' leader of 'JK the rebels made absolutely' no effort I JJB to restrain his men from ' acts of ) 1 HI brutality greater than any that have lr'?Hl)(fc yet marked the campaign In the 33 south. Tihe wounded, pleading for WHS their lives, were struck down with- 'iKjl out pity and even looting was held Kj9 In abeyance until the slaughter was m?M complete. lmuM Not satisfied with robbing their jK5 victims In the ordinary manner, the , Sul fingers of men and women were Bipll chopped off with hatchets, that rings J Vji they wore might 'bo more quickly ob- 1 lB&H tained. Ornaments were torn from j j'jHB!riH ears of women and their bodies were B"(V otherwise mutilated. ., i IK-fl Newspaper Men Killed. - JB Among the passengers were two r KJfl newspaper men and they were among f i RMfl those killed. They were on their way , HPH to interview Emlliano Zapata, the a B!fl ohief of the rebels. One of these, H. H'jfl L. Strauss, a native of Uruguay and ' i 'Vrl consular agent of his country in this 1-J city, was employed at one time on I ) . 1 H the New York Herald. He was mak- g 11 v I ing this trip to see Zapata as a rep- f JK. I resentativo of El Imparclal. The g I ' H other correspondent was Ignacio Her- I VlH raras, of El Pais. I Bl The ill-fated train left Mexico City T H yesterday morning. Most of the 1 H passengers belonged to the farmer 1 H and lower classes. Tho soldiers, who H had been detailed to act as a guard H were from the Eleventh battalion, H commanded by Lieutenant Reynoza I H By costly experience bhe troops had 1 H learned to be on the alert, but from i j H the time thoy left the national capl- 1 I jH tal, not the least hostility had been g 1 H encountered until the train ran Into jH tho canyon. I ' H Deadly Work Begins. ' H Here a rail had been loosened and 1 ' lH as the locomotive left the track a Wl volloy of rifle shots was poured Into ll the train with deadly effect It was I JH centered on the coach In which most I of the soldiers were riding, but soon jH became general, tho rebels appar- 1 i ently not caring whether they dis- 5 ! iMj tingulshed passengers from federal 1 ,' JBfl soldiers. f J BkU Lieutenant Reynoza's order to re- I ' fBH ply to the fire wns carried out by I ! l the entrapped soldiers, notwithstand- I i Hfl ing the advantage which the hill I L KI sides gave the rebels. Pluckily cv- I j. H9 ery man of the guard fought until I 3. HBCT silenced. A few passengers seizing I B flWy' t guns from the fallen soldiers, assist- I &JitBi ed In the defouso, but the unequal M djBMK, battle only lasted a Bhort time. I p B;H Acting upon Information brought by I j H.B the fugitive members of tho train I -, vffJl crew, authorities of Yuatepec notified I (: iffjj those at Cuatlay who prepared to E p K"lVjBJ send a punitive expedition from thero. m d jpH This was not got under way until I i fP ff!4H lato yesterday. Another train was i ' ?- fld sent from the north toward the sceno 1 ) I- AfH of the massacro to recover the bodies 1 v? FaH and give nid to any wounded who I . m0M might be found. jl ! WIH |