The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1912-07-26
REBELS STOP TRAIN;
OVER EIGHTY KILLED
TIE MILITARY ESCORT ALMOST
ANNIHiLATED-soDlES PILED
ON DEBRIS AND BURNED.
MINE OvERTURNS THE ENGINE
Dead and Living Were Robbed-A
Priest sntercedes and 5utchery
Stopped-Women Brutal
y Treated.

MexiCO City.-Over eighty persons
are dead and many more wounded as
a result of an attack by IapatlStaS on
a passenger train between Mexico CITY
and Cuernavaca, MorelOs, Saturday.
The relief train brought back only
eleven passengers.
The military escort of fifty men. I'M
der the command of a captain anu TWO
Ileutenants, first had warning OF the
proximity of the ZapatistaS at Nlo-
meter g., little beyond the station OF
tParras, on the edge of the Federal Dis
'triCt, where a mine exploded, over
trrning the engine AS the train came
to stop about 500 reYolutionists
Opened fire on the second class car IN
(which the escort was travelling. The
soldiers left the car and fought in the
open. All of them, including the OF
fiCers. were killed with the exception
of five badly wounded and two who
escaped injury.
Il is estimated that the train, com
posed of one first class and three sec
.ond class coaches, carried approx
matcly seventy-fiye passengers in ad-
diti0n to the fifty soldiers OF the es-
cOrt. forty-three Of whom were killed.
Nine bodies of passengers were found
near the wreck. Of the remaining
ithirty-two a majority are believed to
lhave been killeG or wounded and con-
'Sumed in the burning cars, which were
fired with oil taken from the tank OF
the locomotive.
Before the attack on the train the
Tapatista hordes had routed small
garrison of federals at Parras. Many
women of the camp fell into their
hands and were subjected TO indie
'sCribabie barbarities. The wife of the
chief of the detachment was found
disemboweled and otherwise horribly
mutilated
Captain Rosende Nunez, in charge
of the escort on the Inflated train, is
said TO have fought herOically. After
nearly every man of his command had
been killed or wounded and he him
self had received three wounds, he
continued to fire from a platform of
a coach until a fourth bullet pierced
his heart
Among the first to fall was the 10
'yearOld daughter of Captain Nunez,
who was accompanying her father on
the fatal trip. She was sitting near a
window, and almost the first sign Of
trouble which the captain had was
seeing his little child fall to the floor
literally riddled with bullets
The Zapatistas robbed the dead and
living and looted the express car
After sacking the express and bag
gage cars, the rebels poured oil on the
cars and, putting the bodies of the
dead in them, set fire to the train
When the relief train arrived there
was nothing but debris and a few pas
'sengers and wounded to tell the tale
A priest interceded. 1t is said he
walked into the thick of the fray and
sought out Delao, the leader. and said
to him "Genovevo, what are you do
ing? Would you have the blood of
Innocent people on your soul"
In an interview Sunday a survivor
said that one of the remarkable things
wes the youth of most of the rebels.
He said that boys scarcely out of their
teens were shooting and hewing with
the best of them. He also said that
the report that the Zapatistas had no
ammunition was evidently false, as
the rebels he saw all had well,filled
cartridge belts.