El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-21

Lue stores ana EG5lQtANE1 a
and tightly barred, not that there Is
much left tC larry off, but thdt we
people are living In fear ana Jren D4Lls
and refuse TO believe that the tIouDLe
Is over. Very few people are seen 5 "a
the streets al any time, ana IL leaves
q weird sensation TO go through INC
streets that should be teemlng Win NJ
manity and see no one IOI Sc -.
blocks in either direction, as O-tSI
happens in day time. and Wneh INC
sun goes down one feels like ne Is III
graveyard. Many people nave aodH-
dOued their homes and gone WheTeNs 81
they could in refuge, some 10 the CHlt-
ed States, some to MaZatlan. some 70
Nogales others who hesltated unIll
the Southern Pacific railroad was cur
and all trains stopped, fled 10 HeISH-
boring villages and ranches, WheIS lLIS
danger wa Se0ually as great some
who remained in Culiacan during sew
eral days OF the lOOting, made their
getaway to neighborlng ranches or
villages. where the looters Iouhu
them on their way out from lOOunS
Culiacan and gave them special atten-
ton forcing them to buy their ives
with whatever money or movable prop
erty they could produce under threats
of death.
Nights Made HideOus.
Drunken brawlers make the nlghts
hideOus with their revels, and there are
always a few cOrpses to be gaIhefeo-
up and hauled of the next morning,
more or less SnOOLuB 8OluS ulL san
during the nights. and uprOarious orgies
among the lower classes. who eat
drink and make merry, and die with
their customary resignation NO one
has time to give proper burial to the
dead An undertaken who had about
20 graves dug in anticipation OF IN
creased business, was looted OF ms
graves. the lOoters dumping their dead
in them and filling them up without
leave When these graves were all
full an old well in the corner Of the
eraveyards was the next dumping
ground for cOrpses, and the English
! speaking negro who was kliIeq oy ne
rebels supposed to be an American CIT
lien but no accurate information ABOUT
/ him Obtainable was number q 10 90
| in this hole, and there is ruTpef-tnal
| his slayer was piled on TO OF nlH'
I next in line. but your ceres onueLls
! was unable to confirm this report ana
did get pretty reliable Information
/ that the slayer escaped after pretend
] ed arrest by his chief
! stencil Of Dead Attracts BuzEards.
! Some 10 others were stacked In on
! top Of the negro, and the stencn was
/ something terrible attracting sWaIllls
/ OF buZzardS that are usually- hOE eL--.5
/ round Cufiacan because OF IT'S dlWoS
! filthy suburbs and nauseating slaugH-
! ter hOnse in the center OF the city me
/ corpses were simply thrown IN as lheS
( yverA Dfcked up- If they had on no gar
] mebts auv lOOter liked well enough 10
/ skin or but II is pretty certain no
/ money or valuables were leIt on any
/ of them. Nothing to identity the negro
] was found in his pockets.
/ Negro said He Was An American.
The Mexican family who boarded this
/ negro said he claimed American cru
! zenship, and they considered hlm al!
/ American He went by the name .05
] lose Mexican for Joe. and no one coutu
! he found who knew his surname, II be
I ing the custom in Latin america 10
/ call everybody by his Christian name;
/ One Mexican thought he rememoe Gu
that Joe sometimes passed nlInselL Aoi
| lose MARTINEZ. but OF course the Marti-
| nez is a Mexican name and may nav e
] been assumed arbitrarily because OF an
I untranslatable English name or lot
/ other reasons which may never oe
! known and another Mexican thought
he heard Joe say his real name vas
( Martin. He gave his home as Los An
geles. Cal. and his occupation as q
black smith he had worked on the
! west coast for four or five years IN
the Southern Pacific construction
camps The Mexicans who had worked
with him gave him a good name. saying
he was always peaceable but was very
rlavfulIv disposed and was the life OF
any crowd he was in, much given 70
/ practical jokes Several VINO haa
I worked round him a year or two al
| agreed that he was not a disorderly
! character Francisco CamachO. the
/ keeper OF the little store, called Las
Z DeIictas," in which the killing Oc-
( Cured, and his clerk. CamilO Leyya,
Z stated that they both witnessed the
| shooting and pointed to the hole the
/ bullet made in the shelving at the rear
I after perforating the negro.s head
/ from mouth to base Of skull Iney
I said Joe was joking and playtuliy spar
! ring with some cOmrade, both stand
I ing in front Of the counter OF the
| store. Joe pretending to give his com
/ rade some fancy tricks in American
/ boxing when CamilO Leyva, one OF a
] "a Hfe~n
! were hanging about the corner, re-
: marked that he would show that negro
| how 10 play that game right dropped
J his Mauser rifle into position and
! fired Just as Joe looked towards him,
! the ball entering the negroes open
! mouth. and came out at the base OF
/ the skull lodging in the shelving at the
/ rear The negro fell dead instantly
| and the killer walked up the street In
Pretended to Make Arrest.
ConradO Antuna. the most notorious
! loOter on the west coast. who was do
/ ing 20 year sentence for murder
/ when the Maderista revolution took
I him out of the penitentiary and made a
! colonel of him, came into the little
/ store soon afterwards, searched the
! negro without finding anything 10
| identify him, or any money, which was
( doubtless his object, and pretended to
! arrest and carry off the killer, saying
/ he was going TO order him shot. but
| that he turned Leyva loose in a few
/ blocks. having pretended his arrest
1 and sentence to death TO cover appear
! auces. and the trick sounds very plaus-
/ fbIe after one knows him and his terri
[ bic criminal record The negro's body
( Law in the store for many hours, until
I the keeper complained that fl was
] hurting his business, when a dump cart
Z hauled it to the paUper's graveyard
! and dumped it into the well where II
l now rots with about 40 others.
| Victor Fuentes. who lives across the
J corner. corrOborated the statements Of
! the storekeeper and his clerk. he hav-
/ ing witnessed the killing None Of
these people could give the date Of the
killing, agreeing that it was about five
Z davs after the loOters took Culiacan
and in the heighth Of the looting and
orgy OF crime
Took Loot on Pack Mules
Bv April Is the loOters had rounded
up everything that was worth carrying
( off from Culiacan on pack animals and
This Conrado AntUna packed SO
miles with his share of the
spoils announcing that he was
| going to take il up into the
Sierra and start a store and omit the
] revolution business for good his de-
J Darture was a little hurried because OF