The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-22
Put to Death in Mexico i'm a
Few Months.
PROPERTY LOSS $3.50, 900, 600
Other Millions Have Been Ex.
acted in Ransom
By Torture of Victims and
Threats of Death.

Washington. Aug 22.-More than a
hundred non-combatant American citi-
zens slain by federals, rebels and ban
dts.
At least thirty-two other non-com-
batant American citizens shot or tor
tured.
Innocent American girls and young
wives whos believed themselves pro-
tected by the American flag, maltreat-
ed before the eyes of their helpless
fathers and husbands.
Millions of dollars in ransom eXacted
from American citizens tortured or
threatened with death.
Property valued at more than $780,
OOO. 900 owned by American citizens de-
stroyed.
This, in part, is the terrible story of
anarchy and murder in progress in
Mexico. In no section of Mexico is the
situation impro yed. 1t is ste"dily
growing worse after eighteen months
of anarchy that has followed the over
throw of Profirio Diaz.
Within thirty days Mrs. Paul Hud-
son, wife of the owner of the Mexi-
can Herald told in New York of an
official list on file in the United
States embassy in the City of Mexico,
been murdered within the last II
months.
Men who have come back from
Mexico, in a position to know the
truth have asserted that this list at
the embassy tells only a small part
of the story of murder. rapine and
destruction, which has been enacted
in the name of their civilized warfare
since the fall of Porfirio DiSz in May,
1911.
Here is a partial list of the muir
ders and assaults which have been
compiled by the New York American
from censored press dispatches. The
complete list cannot be given for the
sole reason that it is withheld from
the public by an order from the
White House.
Americans Killed in Mexico.
Void, L. G., mining engineer; muir
dered July 10 by outlaws in Northern
Sonora
Griffin. Benjamin. rancher; murdered
July near Chuichipa by bandits.
Williams. John H. mining engineer;
killed by stray bullet March when
rebels attacked Nacozari.
Garow. Boris. consulting engineer;
killed when an attack was made on
Nuevo Buena Vista on Feb. 21.
Holmes, Mrs. E. w; killed by she'll
during the bombardment of Mexico
City in February.
Ward. Frank; shot in back by bandits
in his home near Yago, Tepic terri
tory, April 9.
Howard, John s. H. United States
customs inspector; assa assinated on
Mexican soil near Eagle Pass, Texas.
Feb 10.
Unidentified prisoner who was in
Howard's custody.
Soto, BabIo, merchant OF Naco. Ariz.
killed by stray bullet during conflict
between federals and rebels on March
"a
I9,,.boaoI1 ,oour+od ,oI;oo. I-.1I.l
in NaCo. Ariz.. March "a by stray bull
let fired by rebels.
Horace, Frank; killed by bandits in
Coalcoman, state of Michoacan in
March.
Russell, Herbert L., manager of
American Vice Consul McCaughan's
ranch near City of Durango: murdered
by rebels Sept. 29, 1912. Consul Theo-
dore c. Hamm cabled a report to the
department of state.
Williams, Robert, policeman of Phoe-
nix. Ariz.: killed by Mexican bandits
who crossed the line to attend a cele-
bration of Mexican independence day in
Phoenix on Sept. 16 1912.
Price, Scott. bystande r: killed when
bandits were firing on Williams.
Mormon: killed while fleeing from
Calonia, Morelos. Sonora, on Septem-
her 16, 1912, when bandits were loot
ing the town.
dent: executed near Aqua Prieta Al
Sc ptember, 1912, because the rebels
suspected he had given information to
fe deral troops.
Esmeraldes plantation at Ochotal
Vera Cruz; killed in April, 1912, when
he refused to pay money demanded oy
bandits. He was beheaded.
Fountain, Albert, captured by
1912, and assassinated. Described to
the department of state by n United
States consul as "A cold blooded MUIR
der"
Harvey, ]. D., American Mormon;
killed at Colonia, Diaz, May 3, 1912,
by bandits.
Strauss, H. L., formerly corre-
spondent for the New York Herald.
killed with "a other noncombatantsI
when Zapatistas held up train AH-
gust IL, 1912, near Cuautla, MoreloS
German-American citizen: hanged
Lear Nogales. by rebels under Orozco
in July, 1912.
Schubert, Guido. Douglas. Ariz..
friend of Hertling; hanged at same
time.
Stevens. Joshua. an American settler
of Colonia, Pacheco; murdered by
rebel soldiers while protecting his two
daughters from assault. Press dis
patches described his murder as the
fifth in that American colony.
Kane, Thomas G., conductor on
Gnanajuato railroad: shot through
head when bandits wrecked a train at
SilaO Ind killed many passengers
April 10. 1912.
Setter, Pehr OLSON, formerly a
professor in the University of Cali
fornia, killed by rebels on April 29
1911, together with three of his SER
wants near Cuernavaca.
Camp, John. killed near the United