The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-01-14
ACTION TAKEN ON
Mclean OUTRAGE
Carranza Advised By Consul That
Our Citizens Must be Protected
WASHINGTON REQUIRES PURSUIT
AND PUNISHMENT OF SLAYERS
AtrOcious Acts Must Be Suppressed
and American Property Protected.
Our Advice Emphatic.

WASHINGTON-The state depart
ment Wednesday announced that Sec
retary Lansing's protest, telegrapned
to American Consul Silliman at
Queretaro, demands protection for
Americans. 1t denounces the mur-
ders as a "dastardly outrage"
The number Of foreigners massa-
cred in the box canon west of Santa
Ysabel Monday afternoon was placed
at 19 late Wednesday. 1t was authori-
tatively stated that General Pablo Lo-
PEI, Yaqui chieftain closely allied
with General Francisco Villa, COM
manded the massacre. About 20 ban
dts attacked the train, it was said,
while two hundred were grouped as a
reserve to one side of the right Of
way.
Arrivals from Chihuahua City said
that troop train of 20 cars convey
ing between five hundred and one
thousand Caranza troops had pre-
ceded the mining company special by
about Is minutes, leaving the capital.
The engine and two cars of this train
were said to have been derailed by
the bandits in order to stop the pas
senger train of Americans What be-
came of the Carranza soldiers if they
were IN the military train has not
been. 4-arned here
Following is the statement of Mr..
Holmes, as given to the state depart
ment and press Wednesday night.
"Our train left Chihuahua City
Monday morning, January 10, at
about II o'clock The train was
stopped at or about the ranch Baeza
point about five miles west of Santa
Ysabel between 1870 and 2 O'Clock
that afternoon. While the train was
standing at the station of Santa Ysa-
bel two armed Mexicans rode by and
scrutinized the train. The Mexican
passengers at Santa Ysabel told me
afterward that the riders had Injured
If there were any soldiers on the
, train.
'At the point of the massacre ouI
train was stopped in a cut, so that the
last car was just inside the cut We
were stopped by another train-tht
front trucks of one of the coal cars oi
which was seen to be off the track
This was the first we knew of train
preceding us There was nobody to bt
seen around the train in front.
when our train was stopped New
! man and l were sitting together anC
Evans came up and looked out of oul
window. Evans, Newman MacHattoI
and 1 then got off the train. Watson
was either getting off or about to dC
so behind us, when l looked back anC
! saw him. Just after alighting l hearC
volley of rifle shots from a point OF
/, the other side of the cut and JUS
about the train. Looking around,
could see a bunch Of about II or l.
: men standing in solid line, shoulde
: to shoulder, shooting directly at us
: They were so or rs feet away TIL
q coach cut off my view so 1 could no
see how many bandits there were
The depth of the cut on the side nea
i the Santa Ysabel river at that poin
was about IL feet. On the other sid
it was much greater. To the rear o
the train was an embankment declin
ing towards the river
Watson after getting off ran to
L ward the river. MacHutton and
followed. MacHutton fell 1 do no
know whether he was killed then o
tripped. Watson kept running an
r they were still shooting at him whel
l turned and ran down grade, where
fell in some brush, probably 100 fee
from the rear of the train. I la
i there perfectly quiet and locke
I around and could see the Mexican
q shooting in the direction at whic
I Watson was running. / saw that the
= were not shooting at me and thinlKin
: they believed me already dead, I too
q a chance and crawled into some thick
. dfs 1oH rr~l, II
bushes until I reached the bank of tn
i stream. / then made by way to
a point probably 100 yards from tn
/ train. There l lay under the ban
e for half an hour and heard shots b
ones and twos and threes. I did no
hear any sort of groans or yells o
cries from orr Americans