The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-08-17
TRA|NLOAD MASSACRED;;
GARRISON SLAUGHTERED
MEXICAN RURALES FIGHT UNTIL
DEATH ENDS BATTLE-OVER
ECO BODIES IN STREETS.
PASSENGERS AND SOLDIERS SHOT
Ffty-Six Were Killed, and Fingers
and Ears of Dead Hacked OFT.
Wounded Burned in Coaches.
Salazar in Command.

SaIazar in Command.
CITY of Mexico.-Two hundred were
shot down in the streets OF lXtapa
Monday when GenovevO de la OS Dand
of Zapatistas halted on its march to
Toluca, the capital of the state OF Mex
leo, only fifteen miles north. The
village was garrisoned by few more
than one hundred rurales
Some of the fighting around Tenan-
cingo took place earlier in the day,
but the 600 federals quartered there
had caused the rebels to concentrate
on the smaller garrison of rurales. At
the end of the fight all the rurales
were dead, and the total OF zoo in
cluded many of the townspeople as
well as Zapatistas. The rurales fought
desperately and refused to surrender.
Soldiers and Passengers Massacred.
City of Mexico.-Thirty-s soldiers
and more than twenty passengers
were slaughtered by Zapatistas Mon
day in a canyon one kilometer north
of Ticuman, ITO miles southeast of the
| City of Mexico. Details indicate that
the savagery displayed was not less,
and perhaps greater, than that which
accompanied the massacre OF troops
and passengers on a train between
Cuernavaca and Mexico City on July
TO- So far as known only part OF
the train crew escaped. The first
story of the assault was sent back to
Mexico Monday by Conductor Marin
| and Collector Dominguez, who, al
though wounded, had managed to
make their way to Yautepec, twelve
miles away. They were forced to steal
through the Zapatista lines.
After firing had ceased the rebels
swarmed down the hillside and set fire
to the three cars composing the train.
A few of the wounded had craWled out
onto the right Of way, thus escaping
the fate of those unable to leave the
cars. They were burned. According
to reports received the leader of the
rebels made absolutely no effort to
restrain his men from acts of brutal
ity greater than any that has yet
marked the campaign in the south
The wounded, pleading for their lives,
were struck down without pity by the
bloodthirsty rebels, and even looting
was held in allegiance until the slaugh-
ter was complete.
Not satisfied with robbing their vic
Tins in ordinary manner, the fingers
Of men and women were chopped off
with machetes in order that the rings
they bore might be more quickly Sc
cured. Ornaments We're torn from the
ears OF the women and their bodies
were otherwise mutilated.
Among the passengers were two
newspaper men, who were killed.
They were on their way to hold an in
terview with Emiliano Zapata, the
chief of the rebels. One of these, H.
L. Strauss, native of Uruguay and
consular agent of his country in this
city, was employed at one time on the
New York Herald. He was making
his trip into the Zapata territory as
representative Of Ellmparcial. The
other correspondent was Ignacio Her
rerias of Ell Paso.
The Inflated train left Mexico City
Monday morning For the most part
the passengers belonged to the farm
ing element and lower classes. The
soldiers who had been detailed to act
as a guard were from the Eleventh
battalion, commanded by Lieutenant
Reynoso.
BY costly experience they were on
the alert by the time they were ten
miles out of the capital, but not the
least hostility had been encountered
until they ran into the canyon. There
rail had been loosened, and as the
locomotive left the track volley of
rifle shots was poured into the train
with deadly effect. 1t was centered
on the coach in which most of the SOL
diers were riding, but soon became
general, the rebels apparently not car
ing whether they distinguished pas
senger from federal. Captain Samar-
ciona's orders to reply to the fire was
carried out by the entrapped soldiers,
notwithstanding the advantage which
the hillsides gave the attackers.
Pluckily the men of the guard fought
until silenced.
Many passengers, Selling guns from
the fallen soldiers, aided in the de-
Tense, but the unequal battle lasted
only short time.
The wounded members of the train
crew confirm the earlier reports of the
massacre. According to them, the
Zapatistas, who numbered about three
hundred, were commanded by Amador
Salazar.
According to the trainmen, not
more than ten or eleven of the thirty
two passengers escaped into the sur.
rounding hills.
Steamer Strikes Iceberg.
Montreal.-The Allan line steamer