Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-03-16 | Page 5 | Mexicans Kill Five Priests

MEXICANS KILL MUM New Orleans, March 16. Five priests have been slain by rebels In the Mexican state of Tamaulipas since November 18, last, three are held for ransom, a convent has been burned and a cathedral and a smaller smal-ler church looted, according to two Catholic priests. Father Jose Moreno Madina and Father Raymon Gonzales who arrived here today "from Brownsville, Browns-ville, Tex. Both said they had been driven from Victoria, Mex. "Three weeks ago soldiers under Colonel Cavalero demanded money," Father Marina said. "We gave them what we had, but it was not enough. Becoming angered, they took away the gold and silver utensils and wrecked the inside of the building. The figure of the Savior was smashed smash-ed to bits. "The Arch-Bishop, Jose Guzman and his aged aunt, were thrown into the street by the maurauders. Father Guzman died two days later and just before we left we heard the aunt was dying. The rebels then went to the American convent, drove out the sister and her charges and sst the , building on fire." At Tula a church wjis looted by rebels In the same manner as at Victoria, Vic-toria, Father Madina said, and the rector, Father Cela de Leon, and his two assistants, Basilio and Louis Romanes, Ro-manes, were kidnaped. He said they are being held for a ransom of 500 pesos each, their parishioners having been notified that unless the ransoms are paid the priest will be put to death. Father Madina said five ; priests had been killed by rebels i since they entered Tamaulipas last I November.