Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 5 | Colonia Diaz in Ruins, Says W. Derby Johnson

COlONIA DIAl IN RUINS I SAYS W. W DERBY JOHNSON Mormon Bishop From That Colony Tells of Ravages From Froni Revolution DI Dla a prosperous colony colon n. n Jf if Mor Mormon People In Alex Alex- leo ico 1 is In a 0 state stat of ot ruin according to Bishop y W. 9 Derby J Johnson n on of that place place who Lar arrived In Salt Lake yesterday ester a en n route to LI EI Paso Pano o. o Tex According to Bishop Johnson the tite Mexicans us entered the he colony destroyed of the tho house and gave the tho Inhabitants three hours' hours time In iii which to 1 leave ve The Mexicans confiscated bushel of or wheat hundreds of ot cattle and horses and after selecting what the they wanted from the household effects burned tho the houses and destroyed the farm equipment Americans would have ha fared worse orse than they have had It not been beon for Cor the tho services of or United cl States Senator A. A B. B Fall of or New ew Mexico sa says nays s 's Bishop John John- son when the refugees A reached New Mexico the they were housed and fed ted and treated like human beings he ho said Mr Johnson entertains great fears for tor the welfare of ot Bishop Dishop Bentley DenUe who though driven out of or Colonia Diaz returned to ho tho colony olon after the revolutionists had left eft In order ordel to savo o what he h. could from front tho the wreck The accumulations of jl twenty eight ht years of labor vot swept away within three hours hours' time he ho added We Yo left leU Juno June 2 but not until tho the Mexicans 1 had swept through the colony several times time leaving caving wreck and ruin In their paths pathA I reca recall lone one incident that Illustrates the methods u used od b by tho bandits In one section there were Vere ten ton head of or eta stal- lions Ions valued at nt and but three throe of these were ere saved Raved I j had head of ot Polled Angus cattle and was sas able to save only onh twenty Of or eighty head hear of ot horses noises that we had hall on the ranch only eight escaped with us At the tho present time there thero are arc left thoro there only a n aery ery vor cr few rew of tho the families that composed the colon colony Bishop Johnson said lie He did not care caro caroto to offer an opinion ab as to what tho the United States should do In Mexico He lIe said basing his opinion upon his knowledge knowledge knowl lenol edge edgo of ot tho the Mexican 1 people gleaned Cleaned during during- his twenty eight years of at residence real resi dence among them that there is likely to o be 10 nn an endless chain of revolutions In Mexico until tho the United States stops in n and forcibly restores order 1