El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-13

$50. The foregoing facts are Of my
personal knowledge"
The Constructors Statement.
Guadalupe Cardea, conductor on the
train on which the Americans were
killed. made affidavit to the following
1 account of the affair:
We arrived in Santa Isabel at lis
I D. m. and left at 1:20 .. m, without
| knowing that anything would happen.
! Arriving at kilometer IS, 8 kilometers
! beyond Santa Isabel. We encountered q
! train. National engine 5e7, on the track.
/ When / got of to see what had hap
{ pened, the shooting started Later Gen.
/ Reyna came up and placed US under
/ guard, searched US and also searched TO
see what the cars carried and took all
/ the money on them After all of this
| having taken place, we left. all of the
| Americans having been killed and one
Mexican wounded. Some Of the vic
tins were first shot on the train and
all Of those who were wounded in the
cars We're later taken off and MUIR
dered- Some then jumped off the train
and ran toward the river. these includ-
ing Watson. They were followed and
shot down. There were Il foreigners
murdered I saw them and counted the
number. They were dead"
The AFFIDAVIT is sworn to before
British vice consul Albert ScObeL
Story of Massacre Told.
One of the Americans who went
out to bring the bodies of the murdered
men into Chihuahua city, arriving in
charge of the corpses of his friends
here, told the graphic tale Of the find
ing Of the whole IS. stretched out stark
and cold, stripped of their clothes, all
but one frightfuIly mutilated by the
Kidding Of their heads and faces with
fusilade after fusilade OF bullets.
''On the trip. out from Chihuahua city
to Santa ISABEL to pick up the bodies
he said, we took along a military
guard We reached the spot of the mas
sacre at about z D. m Tuesday Thir-
teen Of the bodies were piled UP on
each other at the right of the railroad /
close to the ssth kilometer monument |
in the cut They were stacked like |
cordwood. robbed and denuded.
Some of the dead had on only an |
undershirt- others less than a pair of /,
drawers. one or two a single sock and /
garter. The buttons had been ripped /
of AL the clothing. even underwear.
Watson was the only one OF the IS who (
had been LETT with his clothes still on /
his back His khaki suit was an old ]
one and they evidently did not want it. !
Watson Not MutiIuted.
"All the bodies except Watson's we're
mutilated horribly by shot after shot
having been poured into their faces
after they had been killed by volleys-
The top Of Simmons head was blown
completely or Evans was riddled
through and through until he was al /
most unrecpgnizable.
Back towards chihuahua way. up
the track some 20 feet, lay Wadieigh.
up and his arms raised to protect his
face His head was frightfuily disfig-
uFed by the shooting into it.
Romero was lying race down in the
bushes. in 2 little arroyo Then. far
Their out, Dick Mediation was crumpled
on the dry. hard ground A little fur
Their, out over the edge OF the bank OF
the Santa Ysabel river, was watson
big, strapping Watson-his leg shot to
pieces and a bullet in his heart stone
lead; the only man of the whole IS
Who had any decent covering. Close by
lis side were empty rifle cartridges !
md signs that deliberate reloading OF a
airline had been acted before shooting
lin again. He must have died from
he first shot alone, in the breast, which
lowed through his lung.
'Watson-s corpse was found in the
est condition OF them all with
'ringle's faring next in treatment
)ver a little beyond Watson was Woon, |
With his feet dragging in the river.
Bandits still Hanging Around.
Bandits still infested the district
When we arrived TO get the bodies We
ould see them hanging around. watch
ng US. They got into fighting line,
nd we backed up the train bit, /
rObabiy Doc yards counted betW cen
5 and 20 that I saw. I was told there
we're 50 at La Baeza ranch, and more
lack OF that
This was before We finally sue
seded in getting the bodies. We
licked up a machine gun prior TO get
ing back at the scene of the murder.
nd got ready to do business before the
andits let US 90 about our work.
1t took about half an hour to pick
ID the Is bodies and load them into
ur cars We got back into Chihuahua !
ity at 2:45 Tuesday morning. landing
4 the railroad yards
Permitted TO Arm.
s'The Carranza authorizes in Chi
uahua city gave US permission to arm
urselves for the return journey TO
uarez and FL Paso with our dead. Is
odies We had some 20 to 25 Msxi-
an soldiers as a guard. Gen. Trevino
reated US courteously. I won't talk
bout the question Of delay in get
ing our train to the border, at Chihua-
ia city. On the way up We did not
nticipate trouble, but We prepared for
/ Thank God I am here