The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-22
04 DEAD AS RESULT OF zAPAT|STA RAID ON MEXICAN TRAIN Soldiers Describe Terrible Scene in the Attack of
 the Insurrect0s WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE SHOWN NO MERCY Claimed There Were Five Hundred Members of the Rebel Band-Rain
 of Bullets Mows Down the
 Passengers

Mexico city, July 2l.-Ihe llst or
 dead as a result of the attack yes-
 terday by band of zapatistas on the l Mexico -cuernavaca train near Fares,
 on the edge of the federal district. grew today to a total of s4. Three
 of the wounded died during last night
 in the railway hospital
 second relief train. which reached
 passengers who had escaped the butch cry and made their way into Tres Marias. few miles away. Eleven were
 accounted for last night
 l It is estimated that the train, com . posed of one first-class and three sec
 ond-class coaches. carried approximate | ly 15 passengers in addition to the 50 1 soldiers of the escort. Forty-three sol- diers were killed. Nine bodies of pas sengers were found near the wreck. Of the remaining 32, a majority are
 believed to have been killed or wound
 ed and consumed in the burning cars.
 which were fired with oil taken from
 the tank of the locomotive
 Before the attack on the train, it
 became known today, the Zapata horde
 had routed a small garrison of federals
 at Fares. Many women of the camp fell Into their hands and were sub
 1ected to indescribable barbarities The wife of the chief of the detachment
 was found disemboweled and otherwise
 horribly mutilated
 Capt Rosendo Nunez, in charge of the escort on the i'll fated train, is
 said to have fought heroically. After
 nearly every man of his command had been either killed or wounded and he himself had received three wounds. he continued to fire from a platform of A
 coach until a fourth bullet pierced his heart
 The Zapatistas robbed the dead and living and footed the express car.
 Among the first to fall was the To-
 year-old daughter of Captain Nunez
 who was accompanying her father on
 the fatal frir. She was sitting near
 window and the first volley from the
 attacking band literally riddled the
 child with bullets.
 Soldier Describes Scene We had no chance" said one of
 the soldiers today. Prom the time the train stopped until after 1t ended there was veritable rain of bullets At least 800 rifles were in the first voIIev and
 the car in which we were travelling was the target. Most of the bullets came through the roof The second lieutenant. who was within six feet of me, had IS bullets through his body
 and never knew what struck him. The first lieutenant was also wounded all most at the first shot.
 The captain was travelling In the 1 first-class coach, two cars back, and his child was lying dead before him. By the time he could get through the two cars, crowded with screaming women and children, and start to give orders. 30 of the men were down. When
 he arrived we were firing from the car windows. The only targets we had were straw hats on the embankments which we found out afterward were left there by the enemy as decoys When we went outside we were over whelmed and unable to use our guns in the hand-to hand fight. We had no
 chance. One man cannot fight hun
 dred: clubbed rifle against ma
 chetes."
 A number of the wounded were dis
 charged from the hospital today and will be cared for in their homes.
 Spaniard's Narrow scape
  Spanard who was on the train, a landowner in Morelos, who was known
 to the rebels. had narrow escape. He had not befriended the lnsurrectos In the past and they wished to even
 scores. partly for that reason and part ly because he was a Spaniard, but discussion as to who should have the honor of cutting him down saved hls life. A priest interceded for him and his life was spared. Witnesses say the priest walked into the thick of the fray and sought out De La o, the lead er and said to him: "Genevevo. what are you doing? Would you have the blood of innocent people on your soul?' The execution was then stopped. In an interview today the Spaniard said that one of the remarkable things was the youth of most of the rebels He said that boys not yet 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 had well filled cartridge belts.