The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-17
DESTRUCTION III OF RAILROAD
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ESCAPE FROM VIOLENCE.
MADEIRA ] N IIl'|l.I :. COMPANY '|Fl IS LOOTED
Pestson Company in Quandary as
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Juarez, Mex, July TO- More than
five hundred American citizens, to-
gethGr with their wives and families
in towns along the Mexican North
western railroad, are in danger OF
Dc.ng isolated far from the American
border with scant means Of escap-
ing the depredations of Mexican reb-
els now operating in that region.
Sufficient facts became known to-
day of the real situation along the
Mexican Northwestern railroad to
warrant the statement that it would
cause no surprise if the Americans in
all the towns along the line were
warned to leave Mexico at once.
Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., within the
fast twenty-four hours, had ordered
the Mexican Northwestern railroad
destroyed between Pearson and Ma
dera, twenty seven miles southwest
Of here, but the order has been mys-
.ousiy rescinded. 1t is declared a
misunderstanding between the rebel
forces existed at MADEIRA and Pear
son respectively.
| General Rojas and General Del TorO
are at MADEIRA, further south, while
/ General Salazar has command of men
at Casas Grandes and Pearson, near
er Juarez Friction and internal in
/ trigue is reported between various
factions of rebels.
Though the destruction Of the ROAD
! for a hundred miles in a mountainous
region, where it cannot be rebuilt fol-
months, has been delayed, officials o.
the road are in constant fear that il
may be done at any moment.
Pearson Company Puzzled.
/ The Mexican Northwestern railroad
/ is owned by the Pearson interests, a
British corporation, which likewise
owns the MADEIRA company. Nearly all
Of the employees however, numbering
more than five hundreds, are Ameri-
cans. .....
The quandary before the officials
Fyoday was to whom to apply. 1t was
said they did not wish to ask the
.1tiOns for protection, for while the
property is British the employees are
American. For the Pearson Officials,
Oh the other hand, to order an eXo-
dus of their employees would mean
AtO leave the property and supplies at
the mercy of the rebels. The latter
alre ady have looted the storehouse
Of the MADEIRA Lumber company of
several thousand dollars worth Of
goods.
That the Mexican Northwestern
railroad, along which most of the
rebel army now is stretched, is doom
ell to destruction, is generally admit
ted, for the rebels intend to harass
la esCXerpment forces moving north
" 4stward from chihuahua City, It
is feared that after the destruction OF
the railyoad, aud the. telegraph, Amer
leans marooned in the interior would
have no redress if depredatiOns by
fyTes gonsible rebel bapds began. t
ei d9slsad, however, to take no
.saances, and-the women and children
"A the American colonies in MADEIRA
/and pearson probably will lbe moved
at once. to the United States.
Though the hungry rebel army, it
is considered, may cause trouble in
,confscating supplies and possibly in
looting the many handsome resi-
.dorces oocuried by the Americans.
more apprehension is felt that the
rebels will demand arms and ammun-
ition which the Americans have for
self-protection.