Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-12
Mining Men Returning to their Work in Western Chi huahua, Held Up, Robbed and Killed.
 ONE ESCAPES AND
 REPORTS OUTRAGE De Facto Government is Gen. sured for Lack of Protection Three Arizonans Suppos- ed to Have Lost Lives.

FL PASO, Jan. 11.-Seventeen Am ericans returning to their mining camp in Chihuahua. were taken from the train fifty miles west or Chihuahua City by bandits, supposedly led by General Jose Rodriguez, stood naked along the train-only one escaped to tell in surmise what happened to the others.
 The men were employees of the Cusi- huiriachie Mining Company and travel ing under promised military protection of the defacto government of Mexico with trainioad of supplies and thou sands of dollars in currency. The first intimation of the raid came in a brief telegram from Thomas Holmes, the on- ly known survivor, to officials of the American Mining and Refining Com pany here Almost immediately the censorship was imposed on the wires between Chihuahua and Juarez by Car rsnza officials until the story could be verified from official sources
 According to local mining men, Holmes, in brief statement, contain ed enough to brand the raid as one of the most atrocious in the last four years of the revolution in Mexico. It is pointed out the raid occurred fifty miles vest of Chihuahua City, yester- day, where presumably there were one thousand troops of the Carranza gov ernment in addition to hordes not kept lately by the surrender of Villa forces
 According to Holmes cryptic tele- gram, he left the end of the line as the firing squad took position at the oppo- site end They raised their rifles and Holmes started life race for Chihus- hua City. He heard the shooting Bull lets swished past He ran until out of sound of the firing Among those possibly in the party were three Ari- zonans. They were Alexander Hall of Douglas, Jacob Hase and Charles Wad- leigh.
 According to advices from the Brit ish consul at Chihuahua City seven teen were killed. Confirmation of the shooting of Maurice Anderson. clerk and one of the members of the party. vas received in a message from the father to the mother reading. ''Mau- rice is no more I hope to recover his body
 Mexican Consul Garcia said he had heard reports of the killing, but had received no advices.
 Holmes reached Chihuahua City last night Apparently his only thought was of his wife, presuming the news of the affair had reached the border. He sent message to the mining company requesting that his wife be advised he was safe. The message caused anxie- ty for Holmes had been on the train scheduled to leave Chihuahua City for the camp.
 Before telegraphic censorship was imposed on communication, it was es- tablished that other mining men of Chihuahua City and other Americans on the train had been killed.
 News of the raid caused consterna- ton among the mining mems families, most of whom reside in Fl Paso. Gar cia declined to accept the suggestion that he telegraph to General Trevino for information. He stated at the con sulate that no report of the killing had been communicated to Carranza be- cause it would be useless"
 The killing of employees is taken to mean the alleged order of Villa. issued upon his return from Sonora, after his family arrived in Cuba, was to be obey ed The alleged order to kill Ameri- cans, loot and burn" has been reiter- ated by bands returning from Sonora. It is believed this order resulted in the recent death of Peter Keane, a book keeper of the Hearst interests near Madeira. at the hands of Villa bandits
 MAY URGE ACTION.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 1l.-kept rts