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Show MEXICANS RIOTING ACROSSjHE LINE AMERICAN BRAKEMAN KILLED BY STRAY BULLET AND STREET CARS ARE ATTACKED. Soldiers Loot and Rob in Border Town, It Being Evident That Officers Are Unable to Control Them When They Attack Civilians. El Paso. Texas. Heavily armed Mexican and American troops lined opposite banks of the Rio Grande Tuesday night as the result of rioting riot-ing in Juarez. One shot from south of the border, believed by the United States military authorities to have been fired on American troops, toppled George A. Diepert of El Paso, a brakeman, from the top of an El Paso & Southwestern railroad freight car. He was dead with a bullet in his heart when a corporal's cor-poral's guard reached him. His train-mates train-mates fled at the shot. Later the train was pulled out of range of Mexican cavalry that moved along the bank of the Rio Grande. Shortly afterward two Mexicans were shot at the Mexican end of the Santa Fe bridge by Mexican customs guards. General Ochoa said Tuesday night that seven rioters were killed in one store where they had murdered the Chinese proprietor and were looting, loot-ing, making ten known killed in Juarez. |