El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-24
TWO WRECKS ON
MEXICAN ROAD
Neither Caused by Bandits;
Villa Wounded; Stopped
to Butcher a Cow.


number Of Americans coming from
Chihuahua sunday night and reaching
! Juarez shortly before midnight, brought
ward of the wrecking Of two trains on
| the Mexican National railway line be-
low Chihuahua. The wrecks occurred
Wednesday. April 10. and Thursday.
April 90 In the first wreck. which
| happened within Is miles OF Chihuahua,
! four persons were killed. In the second,
| which occurred between Chihuahua and
| Jiminez there were 90 casualties.
THE wrecks were not due TO attacks
: by bandits" said S. II. Burns. one Of
( the Chihuahua train passengers. The
| trouble as we learned il in chihuahua.
was due to defective tracks. and when
was questioned about the matter last
night by newspaper men. I said so. This
morning 1 learn that we brought word
to the border that the trains were
wrecked by Nillistas"
Lopez a Prisoner.
Charles Hammond, one OF the passen-
gers on the train, said he had no doubt
but what the bandit captured in a cave
near Santa Ysabel was Pablo Lobez. Il
learned from one or the officials that
the man is really Lopez and that after
the fOrmalities Of trial he is to be
publicly executed"
Mr.. Hammond told an interesting ac-
count Of the wounding Of Villa. which
ports coming out of Minaca and Guer-
zero. The account runs in this fashion:
The station agent at Minaca, Jose
Valenzuela, was in that town when it
was attacked by the Villistas on March
2S- He did not see the killing Of Her
man BlankenberE nor of Donald Bruce
McGregor, but later with a man named
Hemple and six COnstitutionalist SOL
diers, helped to bury the two men.
Sent for Doctor.
THE day following the euuaaenoent
between the Nillistas and the Consti-
tutionalists at Guerrero, Villa sent for
DR.. A. T. Stell to treat a wounded leg.
DR.. Stell could not be found and a
quack Mexican doctor named Pinto
Cato (meaninE the man who painted
the cat) was sent for in his place.
lfeei quite confident" continued
MI. Hammond" that the man who
painted the cat did no great service
for villa. The interesting thing. how
ever, IL that this quack doctor later told
OF his treatment of Villa and the in
formation is quite general in Minaca
and Guerrero.
villa wounded.
Nenenzuela, who is a thoroughly re-
liable man, learned from a number Of
sources that Villa had been wounded
outside Of Guerrero and that in a verv
critical condition had left the Guerrero |
country in a coach.
We hIve the word in Chihuahua that
Villa is dead. and am more and more
beginning 10 teel that there is much |
truth in It."
Valenzuela informed Mr.. Hammond
that $50 American troops were on Fri /
day Of the past week at San Pedro !
ranch, east of Minaca, and that fire. |
quently attachments of the soldiers
came into the town for supplies Most |
of the women in the settlement about
Mlnaca have gone to Chihuahua because I
Of the numerous bands of bandits that |
now lnfest the country.
stop Train TO Butcher Cow.
we made the trip up from Chihua- /
hua in fairly good time" said Mr.. Ham /
mnod," and would have made It in much !
better time had the soldiers escorting |
the train not got hungry. At Laguna |
we stopped for an hour and half while .
the soldiers chased a COW all over the |
country. Eventually they killed the (
animal and, after dragging her a dis /
lance that is as far as from Fort Bliss |
TO FL Paso. proceeded to dissect her and i
lpporuon out the meat. We passengers /
felt fairly hungry by the time that the 4
meat was consumed"