El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-24
f PASOAN TELLS
Of FIGHTING IN
MEXICO

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kilometers out of San Andreas and the
engineer badly injured Conductor
Weber also had his ankle badly sprain-
ed, but no passengers were killed, al
though there were 122 on board the
train returning from Chihuahua.
The insurgents rode into .Minaca late
Monday evening, he says, and ransack-
ed the stores taking ALL of the arms,
ammunition and supplies they could
find.
Jefe a Prisoner.
Fighting also occurred at Guerrero.
Temosachic and other small towns
west Of Chihuahua, according to
Sharpe. At Guerrero the jefe was
taken a prisoner, he says, and was to
have been held to exchange for insur-
gent prisoners.
relief train was sent out Tuesday
morning from Chihuahua to pick up
the passengers who had been in the
wreck near San Andreas and they were
taken to Chihuahua in time to connect
with the train for the north.
An Eyewitness.
Discussing the affair, Sharpe said:
The wreck was caused by two rails
having been taken up and removed by
party of revolutionists, at least 500
strong, we'll mounted, armed with two
sdxshooters apiece and new 1870 rifles
Each man had two belts of pistol cart
ridges and a handler hung over his
shoulder containing rifle cartridges
The engineer and firemen were badly
hurt and the conductor had a broken
nose. The insurrectos surrounded the
train and held all the passengers up,
took all the arms and cartridges from
the Mexicans and all the cartridges
from the Americans, but not their
arms.
Question American
''They asked me what my business
was and whether 1 owned any land
down there 1 told them / did not, but
lived in FL Paso. They then told me
to go back to Ell Paso and stay there,
as they had nothing against Americans
and did not want TO interfere with
them. 1 asked permission from the
chief Of the band to send a telegram
to Chihuahua regarding my detention
and my cattle business. The chief then
dictated a telegram for me to send as
follows: Send train Immediately for
baggage and passengers I was then
ordered to cut the wires, which I was
about to do when the chief change
his mind. and said: Let them send ali
the soldiers they want to, as we are
ready for them.
4 Second Wreck.
-Four or five hours afterward a
train going west from chihuahua was
wrecked at the same place On this
train were a number of rurales and
some passengers. The insurrectos fired
into the train from ambush and killed
seven rurales and wounded a number
more and also killed three women and
one child among the passengers They
went through this train, taking all
arms and ammunition, and took all the
money from the Mexicans. securing
22OO pesos from a rich Mexican and
various sums from the others, saying,
We need money
Capture a Town.
They took possession of San Andreas
and put their own officials in all the
offices from jefe politico, including
postmaster.
Rob Town of Guerrero.
"The night before, about 1000 armed
men rode into Guerrero, 20 miles west
of San Andreas, and looted all the
stores of provisions and arms and the
postofifce Of all the stamps and money
At this place is small fort with
few Mexican soldiers, whom they took
prisoners. and they then had full pos
session of Guerrero, the same as In
the case of San Andreas.
About 4 O'Clock in the afternoon,
there being about 20 Americans on the
relief train, the passengers started back
TO Chihuahua The revolutionists told
me that they would not attack Chihua-
hua for four days; that they were first
going TO get possession OF all the coun-
try around the city, and then they
would attack the city