Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-07
Revenge for Executions Is
Ruthless Destruction
Of Property
GENERAL VILLA IN
RAGE OVER MATTER
Orders Wholesale Killing of
Men Found Near the
Scene of the Crime

JuareZ, Mex, Feb. 6.-Seven Ameri
Gan railroad men are believed to be
prisoners, the Great Cumbre tunnel
through the continental divide is in
ruins. and the Mexican Northwestern
passenger train which left here Wed
nesday morning is charred wreck at
the mouth of the tunnel as the result
OF the depredations of members of the
Maximo Castillo gang of bandits.
This information, amplifying reports
last night from Chihuahua, was receiv-
ed here today at the headquarters of
the railroad. 1t corrects last nights
statement that it was the Drake tun-
nell smaller bore south of Cumbre,
that was destroyed. The Cumbre tun-
nel is the largest on the road, 300
feet long, and required eighteen
months to construct
The names of the prisoners report
ed here are:
NJ. J. Gilmartin. superintendent of
the road.
E. II. Schoefield superintendent of
terminals at Juarez.
Lee Williams. assistant manager of
the railway commissary
Il. j. McCutheon, engineer of the
passenger train.
J. E. Webster, conductor.
Fl. F. Marders, express agent. b
a seventh American is believed to
have been on this train and Americans
elso were employed on the freight
trein which was used to fire the tun-
mel.
Many to Be Shot.
General Francisco Villa, commander
Of the rebel forces, and now at Chihua-
hua was enraged at the news and in a
te'es ram which passed through mere
toGav ir structed General Felipe Macias
Cncr>'inc in the Casas Grandes district
<tc ~hoot ever" man who could not sat
isloc' 'ori'y a"count for his presence
t-c~n ..-.
~" b"-d,ts are believed to be op
erat:ns in two forces of about 20 men
each rs c nbro Is hard days ride
from Ell Vale near Casas Grandes,
where % of the robbers were captured
and shot lest Tuesday.
The other detachment believed to be
un6er Castillo himself. did the wreck
ing probably in revenge for the fate
Of his men at Ell Vale. He captured
train of stock cars Wednesday and
ran it into the tunnel where it was set
on fire. The tunnel was a blazing mass
that evening when the passenger train
from JuareZ was captured and sent
headlong into the roaring furnace
which was belching flames ard smoke
fro,n its mouth.
Castillo then burned two neighbor-
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nj steel. and ran two locomotives over.
the embankment into the deep canyon
below
Refuses Armistice.
Madrid, Spain, Feb 6-Provisonal
President Huerta today telegraphed to
the Spanish-American union here re-
plying to it's request that he bring
about an armistice in Mexico in order
to arrange a compromise with the re-
volutionists by the statement that lie
is INCREASING the federal army with
the object Of pushing forward his cam
paign against the rebels General
Huerta at the same time invited the
newspapers of Madrid to send cores
pondents to Mexico to observe the
situation. ..t....
The Spanish press commented freely
on the Mexican situation today. Sew
erai Of the leading newspapers of the
car:+al accused the United States gov
ernment of "fomenting anarchy
Ell Diaro Universal, the organ of
Count Ramononez a former premier,
affirms that if the revolutionists in
Mexico are supplied with arms from
the United States. the government at
Washington is bound to impose respect
for the lives and property of foreign
ers in Mexico.
Germans Leave Tampico.
Berlin. Feb. 6.-The German minis
ter to Mexico today requisitioned the
German steamship Ypiranga for the
removal of German subjects from
Tampico.