The Springdale news., 1915-04-30

change they gave the wrong answer and were shot down when they had taken no part in the fight and were oily anxious to 9 about their own business The next morning some ninety dead men were lying in the streets and they were not touched during all that day but left there in order 10 intimidate others. It was z. -..-. z4 e.-,z.-t !-e c.cser to rsaI war than have ever been be fore and closer than l care to be again.
 This capture of the city by the opposite side made it impossible for Us 10 return to the north by the railway. We saw that steamer was expected to sail from Man zaaillo for Gaaymas on Jan 29th, 90 we took the first train out for that port on the 27th l should say that the Canancistas had come into Guadalajara over this line. On the 21st they had started a train loaded with women and children, the lam flies of the officers and men from ZapotIan for Guadalajara \ few miles from Zapotlan the road passes tae crest Of the mountains and de seends by very steep grade with many sharp curves and highfills When starting down this grade for some unknown reason the engineer los control Of his train and il ran away down the mountain finally 1eaV- ing tHe track and plunsine down 2 ear5 nigh embankment into the can oa below T. vas rrain of twenty. Two cars and al but two left the track. They were piled one on an as4e4. aad aboat six hundred persons mastfy women and children were kiH
 sx days after this terrible wreck or =tr5in Was The first 10 pass tHe B.aa The wounded had been taken oat and tae pile of wreekaae dead bodies and all were covered Y..a a.I aad szt on fire. Practically everything vas burned bat enousI Fas I@Ef t6 create | stench. bed = aazf bar.ed under tae twisted steel When we reached Manzanino He 1fa aa. ind ogr steamer. No word e5sI.e= zaacerniag it for some days an=i zasl We learned that il had been wrecked jast outside the harbor of T9p5lo5ampo. Ry this tine all trains fer Gaadaiaiara had been stopped % .saf Wa could not go back and we were saHt up there in that out-ofthe. NY plase fer four weeks lacking on9 ] v. without any news rom the oat- side world. Finally We get steam er sor San Francisco and went away D le@e aad then back across e EI Paso and Chibuahua Ne trax- a#za more than three thousand miles t5=szt 70 #Gh.haahaa which E i1
 Iess than one thousand away
 HalIe n Manzil.o We stopped wtta 2 ehinaman in the old hotel that had been but1t to accommodate the work. aea n1en he government was em. f4asia4g large nun. bers ot men to im- prove saa h8rbor There were about #7zzH people at the place aGd oHr 9t4 Ca3namaa seemed 10 live for TO ata4F purpose than to teed Us. Hs
 Utterly searched the town through to End different kinds Of food for Us. Sometimes he would send as many as .i9e kinds of meat 10 the table for oaa meal We tried our best to eet taa wa5ter to understand that We did ast want so muca bat t would come reht alcne just samee. NJ t1e min table there were seven persons Q seven different nations We had an Englishman, a German, q Swiss, ' Spaniard, Svede, American and Mexican, nor to cunt Fan-Ten, tae Chinese waiter t was one of the most interesting groups ot men ever saw and in spite of the war and President Wilson Mexican policy we s3t along very well.
 see that this letter is stretching out beyond my time 10 vri-e so mIst stop 10 recount all Of the in- tar= eting things hat came to pass. Among them a whale hunt in the harhor was something new for me On the way north was sea-siek near ly all the time. As you know have been around the world but this tril eot my goat more than all ,ae others put together.