Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-13
Authoritatively Stated That General Pablo Lopez, Yaqui Chief with Villa Superin- tended the Murder.
BODIES SLOW IN REACH
 ING THE BORDER
Survivor Tells of His Exper- fence in Which He is the Only Man to Tell the Tale.
 De Facto Troops Disappear.

FL PASO. Jan. 12.-The number of foreigners massacred in the box can yon, west of Santa Ysabel. Monday, is placed at nineteen. It is authori- tatively stated that General Pablo Lo- peg. a Yaqui chieftan. closely allied with Villa, commanded the massacre. About twenty bandits attacked the train. it is said, while two hundred grouped as reserves, stood to one side of the right of way.
 Arrivals from Chihuahua City said a troop train of twenty cars. conveying between 500 and 1000 Carranza troops proceeded the mining company special by about fifteen minutes. leaving the capital An engine and two cars of this train are said to have been derail- ed by the bandits in order to stop the passenger train of the Americans. What became of the Carranza soldiers, if in the military train. could not be learned.
 The mass meeting, called this after noon, was postponed when it was learned the funeral train. bringing the bodies to the border, would not arrive before midnight It will be held tomor row. it is said. The delay in the trans Doitation of the bodies to the border here caused muc dissatisfaction. Late today the bodies had not left the capi- tall although two other passenger ha dax Arrangements had been made for the passage of the bodies upon their arri- val directly across the river to this city. As the day progressed plans for a public funeral of all the victims were abandoned, since relatives from vari- ous parts of the United States claimed the bodies of the victims
 Thomas B. Holmes. the sole foreign survivor of the massacre, reached the border about noon in state of ner- vous collapse. He said the train left Chihuahua City about eleven and that it was two in the afternoon when, just outside Santa Ysabel, the train was stopped. A shout from the right of way said. "All Gringoes get off here"
 From Evans, nearest the door of the coach" Holmes said, dropped his mag azine, went to the door, out on to the pIB9u I 'sdsls 9ql uMop pue UJIoIlgId a shot. Watson. who was behind Ev- ans, rushed to the door and platform to see what had happened was right behind him.
 Watson caught sight of the ban dits. swung to the right of way and ran along the car. saw him fall un- der volley of bullets. As I started down the steps. some one pushed me and I fell on my face. A volley of shots went over my head"
 Holmes then told how he fled from the scene after shots were fired to- ward where he had hidden in the brush. Two others followed him but were brought down by the bandits. Re ports from the capital are to the ef- feet that the body of each victim bears a bullet wound in the forehead, in ad dition to other wounds. It is said the head of c. R. Watson was completely blown off.
 officials of the Mexico Northwestern Railway said the Carranza government was not operating the Madeira Compa- ny's properties at Madeira and Pearson. It is said troop train, carrying forty men. sent from Juarez towards Pear son and Madeira to protect these prop
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