Evening star., 1916-01-15
THOMAS H. HOLMES
ONCE RESIDED HERE
Family Lived at 511 c Street
Southeast Years Ago-SoIe
Survivor of Massacre.

Thomas II. Holmes, the mining en-
gineer. who was the sole survivor of
the ma ssacre of American mining men
by Mexicans, near San Ysabel, Chi
huahua, last Monday. was at one time
resident of Washington. With all
of the members of his family he re-
sided at 511 C. street southeast, and
he and the other members of his fam
lily had many friends and acquaint-
ances here, friendship which was re-
newed, SO far Thomas H. Holmes
was concerned. in Washington two
years ago, when he was mere Tor
visit.
Dr. Edgar p Copeland of this city,
who is well acquainted with the Holmes
family, said today that they numbered
among their friends the late Commits
sioner Davenport of the pension bu-
reau, that Senator Gallinger of New
Hampshire is we'll acquainted with the
Holmes family, and that DR.. Scott ID.
Breckenridge, also OF TINS city, is
warm friend of Dr. Robert Holmes,
brother of the Thomas ii. Holmes,
whose story of the horror near Camp
Cusihuirischic, belonging to the Ameri-
can Smelling and Mining Company, at
San YsabeL near Chihuahua City, in
which eighteen Americans were strip
ped and shot to death. has led to de-
mands in the United States Senate, the
House of Representatives and else
where for armed Intervention by the
United States in Mexican affairs.
Spent Early Boyhood Here.
There were three Of the Holmes
boys" Dr. Copeland said today, their
names being Robert, Thomas and
Ted, a diminutive, I suppose. for
Theodore. Their father was in the War
Department, as a civilian employe,
thirty years ago. and brought rom
Holmes to Washington as year-old
infant when the family came here then
to live. Tom spent all his early boy
hood in Washington, although he never
went to school here, the family moving
back to Keene, N. H. where they came
from, when Tom was about seven
years old He, however. has visited
Washington from time to time, and l
have seen him when he has come to
call since then.
1.-THE Oldest son was Robert. He gradu-
ated in medicine, and is now practicing
at Keene, N. II. He served for several
wears in the Medical Corps OF the United
States Army Tom the survivor of the
massacre, was a graduate of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, and he
first went to Mexico some years ago as an
engineer in the employ of the Guggen-
helm mining interests. on the west coast:
Then, later he went into the state of
Chihuahua, and later was engaged in min
ing engineering near Mexico City for an
English syndicate.
During one of the recent outbreaks,
when Americans were warned out of
Mexico, he left that country and went
to South America as a representative
of large manufacturers of mining ma
chinery. He told me he had visited
every important mining center in
South America.
Here Two Years Ago.
"'Tom' was here in Washington just
before he left for South America, about
two years ago. I did not know he was
back in Mexico until saw his picture
in the newspapers.
Ted the youngest boy, is a grad
uate Of Cornell University. and Is now
in Brazil He Is a civil engineer. The
father Of the boys gave up his position
some years ago in the War Depart