The Hartford republican., 1913-10-24
BACK FROM
OLD MEXICO
Story of Persecution By
Warning Natives.
Destruction, Because Of Fighting,
Is Laying Whole Country
Waste.

Pueblo. Colo. October ls.--K. E.
Neugebauer. a Pueblo boy. graduate
of the Central High School and later
from Golden, who has been a mining
engineer, assayer and chemist at a
Number of mines In Mexico, has re-
turned home after a stay In the
stormy Southern county of seven and
a half years. His return Is welcomed
by his parents. who have been unable
TO keep in communication with him
for many months. and who greatly
worried when stories OF trouble from
the section in which he was located
were Of almost daily occurrences In
the papers.
while the train upon which re-
turned made the distance between
chihuahua TO Juarez In twelve hours,
Juarez to Chihuahua was five days
on the road" said Mr.. Neugebauer.
This uine has been torn up and
wrecked 80 many times that theer
Is little left OF 1t that would remind
one of a railroad. Almost the entire
distance Of over 200 miles could be
seen torn and twisted rails dying
beside the road while practically
every bridge, some Of them originally
of steel construction, had been burned
or b,own up.
For the past year or more ] have
been at Cusihuisachic. mining
camp out from Chihuahua. the prop
erty there being owned by the Potter
Palmer syndicate OF Chicago. We
have been handicapped in our work
J for months. II is over four months
now since there has been a freight
train on that branch Of the railroad.
I'VE had no powder and very little
In the way Of provisions. Indeed.
things became so bad that Thought
1t was about time TO hike back TO
the United States. When I left, out
side of Wallace, the superintend-
ent. there were but nine Americans
at the camp, some of them having
been there for years and married to
Mexican women.
Some time ago Mr.. Wallace tried
TO get in few cars OF powder. min
ing material and provisions. for food
has been low for q long time. He
made arrangements with the feder-
a.is,s to allow the shipments and
the cars were loaded at chihuahua.
The road was being repaired by
gang OF 700. that is. there were this
many in the gang, and the crew and
guards for the train. The train was
attacked by Bustijos. leading the
revolutionists. and wrecked. They
took everything they could find. and
in the battle which ensued over 900
. out of the 100 federalists were kill
ed. After some part eying by Mr. Wal
lace and upon the payment OF $4,000
property worth about 1000 was
turned over to him. but in this was
not included the powder or such
things in the provision line as sugar
and coffee. This they kept. Later
this stock of powder was used in an
attempt to blow up federal train
loaded with soldiers. The powder was
placed on a car set on a grade, a
long fuse lighted and the car started
down the track to collide with the
federal train. However, IL hit wobty
bridge, went in the ditch and did no
harm.
"The Americans there try to re-
main neutral, but it is a hard game.
Mr. Wal ace, who has two big touring
cars TO get over the country, was
held up once by rebel general and
forced to use his ,ars for several days
TO aid In an a,tack on the federal :
lists This naturally made the federal
lists suspicious. In consequence ii has
been case OF being between the
devil and the deep blue. sea all the
time.
''The general character OF a great 4
er part OF the population OF Mexico
is such that they like trouble, are
seeking II all the time. Such a thing |
as an honest election would be out
of the question. Hd of them do not \
know what they want, and would not
be sufficiently intehigent 10 vote
their wishes II they did know. 10
steal and rob is their delight. And
il makes little difference whether
they are serving in the government