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Show BANDITS MURDER' FIFTY PERSONS Marauders Wreck Train Between Be-tween Torreon and Zacatecas Zacate-cas Men, Women and Children Lose Lives. Laredo, Texas, April G. Fifty persons, per-sons, including women and children, were murdered by bandits between Torreon and Zacatecas on March 2S, when the marauders wrecked the train on which they were riding, according to word brought hero today by messengers. mes-sengers. The bandits, according to the story told here, wrecked the train in a hilly section of the country sparsely inhabited, inhabi-ted, 'and shot down the passengers ono by one as they emerged from the wreckage. When all the passengers were killed or wounded, the bandits set fire to the wreckage and cremated the bodies. A military train following the passenger pas-senger reached the wreck shortly afterward, af-terward, but turned back to Torreon without rendering aid. No other details were available. The . source Is considered authentic here. |