Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-09-23
VILLA RUNNING
THINGS WITH A
HIGH HAND
AMERICAN REFUGEE FROM SANTA
ROSALIA TELLS OF BANDITS
MANNER OF TREATING AMERI-
CANS ==LOOTS The TOWN and
AMERICANS AND MExICANS FLEE.
MEXICAN WOMEN
ARE ALL PUT IN JAIL

El Paso, Texas, Sept. 23.-Dr. c. +.
Schakelford, an American citizen, ar
rived here today from Santa Rosalla
Chihuahua, Mexico, a refugee from
Pancho Villa. the rebel leader, VINO
gave him "a hours to get out or be
killed. DR.. Schakelford is a native OF
Frankfort, Ky, and has been living III
Santa Rosalia for six years. He says
when Villa and his rebel band entered
I the town on the 18th, Villa sent for
| him, told him he was tired of you
( American tilibusterers," being i'll Mex
leo, and declared that he would shoot
them all if they did not get out.
! "Villa took all my books and ac-
counts, and told me he would collect
my money" said he.
"He also said my house and furnish
ings were forfeited to the rebels ana
placed two guards over me to see that
| ! did not depart with any money or
property. | left at one o'clock the
morning OF the 10Th. | had to walk
out, carrying suit case. which is all
| | escaped with. ] hired an old mule
ar a ranch and reached the Texas
line at Presidio Sunday night.
reached Eel Paso this morning. My
family was forced to fee from Santa
Rosalia in May last. They are now
in Chihuahua. All the Mexican men
of prominence of Santa Rosalia have
had to flee from the rebels and when
I left there last Tuesday morning,
Villa had thrown all the prominent
Mexican women OF the town into jail,
for what purpose I do not know ana
had searched every home for money.
There is not $500 left in the town.
Villa told me he was going to kill the
American officials of the Conchas Dam
company near Santa Rosalia, He has
promoted to a captain the lieutenant
who killed Burton, the New Jersey
man. some time ago
! Train Dynamited.
/ Laredo, Tex, Sept. 23.-Fifty per-
SONS were killed when rebels dyna-
mited a passenger train on the MeXl-
can railway, sixty miles south OF Sal
itillo, Mexico, on Friday afternoon, ac-
cording to official reports to Mexican
federal Headquarters in Nuevo Laredo
today. The train was then looted and
the surviving passengers robbed, 1t IS
said
Forty federal soldiers and ten sec
ond class passengers comprised the
official death list The number OF
injured was not given.
! w. w. Mervain, of San Francisco,
the only American on the train, is said
to have escaped injury, but was
robbed.
Two dynamite mines were set of
by electricity, it is said. The first class
coach was only derailed. but the bag
gage. express and two second class
coaches were blown to pieces.
$4,000 Cartridges Seized.
FL Paso, Texas, Sept. 23.-united
States government agents last night
seized $4,000 rifle cartridges belonging
to the Mexican federals, as they were
being removed from store house to-
wards the international boundary. lg-
nacio Lopez, a Mexican government
agent and Joe Ravel, an American
citizen, who were transferring the am
munition were arrested on charge
of violation of the neutrality law
United States government agents
)
destined for the federal troops at
JuareZ,
American Soldier Arrested.
El Paso, Tex Sept. 23.--lames }.
Kenney of Waterbury, CT, a dis
charged sergeant from the Fifth Unit
ed States Cavalry, enroute home from
Fort Huachuchua, Arizona, was ar
rested by Mexican soldiers in JuareZ
today because he appeared in that city
in uniform. He was later paroled by
the Juarez military to the custody of
American Consul T. D. Edwards.
Because of military interference
with officials of the Mexican Central
railroad, the officials in Juarez pro-
tested to Mexico City and orders were
received today that the military would
no longer have jurisdiction over the
train movements except for troops.
The complaint was made as a result
railroad officials say, of the military
designating favorite firms to receive
cars for goods, when other applica-
tions should have had prior claim.
There is shortage of cars.
Durango Deserted.
Mexico City, Mex. Sept. 23.-Twen'
ty FIVE American refugees from Du-
range. arrived here today having
travelled overland to Zacatecas, where
they boarded train for the capital
Out of the normal American popula'
ton in Durango of 5000, less than 20,
all men, remain.
Most other foreigners also have left
Durango according to the refugees,
who say that the rebels rob MeXicans
and foreigners indistriminately Some
ranches were looted so often that
nothing portable remains
35 Are Dead.
San Luis Potosi, Mex, Sept. %
The number of killed in the dynamlt-