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Show AMERICANS I NEED FUNDS I Many Eager to Leave Mexico But Checks Are Refused for Tickets Laredo. Tex, Feb. 13. A passen- II 'per from Mexico City on last night's I train reported that at least lnrxi ! Americans were without funds to l leave the capital, even if the opportunity oppor-tunity presented, because the banks had been closed since Saturday. A i large number of Americans were at the railroad station, he said, eagerly eager-ly desiring to take northbound train, but checks were refused us payment for tickets. .Many Americans, the passenger be-lievod, be-lievod, were practically marooned at the station without food, shelter or money. Ho said railroad officials were doing everything they could to afrord shelter to the women and chil. N'liincrcms passengers arriving from Mexico City assert that th American Ameri-can officials in Mexico should provide special trains on which Americans j could leave. Passengers from Faktfllo arriving j here this morning sav that one freight , train was entirely destroyed by fire and that the fate of another freight train was in doubt. Rlnce it was attacked. at-tacked. Passengers on a train which left Laredo Saturday night at 9 o'clock, proceeded In safety until they reached a point about eighteen miles south of this city, where they were attacked by a party of from 50 to 100 rebels. As they were entering the citv the engineer was fired upon Realising the danger he reversed the levor and backed full speed toward Saltillo. pursued by the rebels on horseback. The speed of the mounted 'band was not sufficient to overtake the train. The passengers were endangered en-dangered by rebel gun fire. Aboard the train was a party of fifty fif-ty Welshmen en route to Necaxa, a point beyond Mexico City to take em. plOyment with a light and power company. . - l Todav's passenger list from Mexico Mexi-co ofty included Bishop Hendnx ot the Methodist Episcopal church South, or Kansas. He was a passenger on the southbound train which was attacked at-tacked bv rebels and returned north Bishop Ifendrlx said that the where Louts or the northbound train from Mexico City was not known at the time oi the attack at Bl Salado Bishop Hendrix said the band peared to bear a special grudge against the National railroad and Immediately Im-mediately alter robbing the cars ot everything useful burned the rolbr-r Muck and undesirable freight. |