Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-11-03
German Passenger Mistaken
II for an American and Struck
Over the Head by One of
the Robbers
RAND NUMBERED NEAR
TWO HUNDRED MEN
Outlaws, in Command Of Muir
ga Brothers and SiIveStro
0uevedo Carried Loot Away
in MuIe-driven Wagons,

,,v MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wiREl
Chihuahua City, MeXp Nov l.
Nria El PusO Junction, Nov, -
tner shooting the twenty-nine car
ranzo military guards of the south
ronnd passenger train which lett
yvo IUorez Monday, villa bandits looted
tbe train. robbed the passengers ana
VA .,.or took the clothing from the
women passengers on the train. Dr'
uoffner A German passenger on the
train who was mistaken by the ban
ais for an American, was struck
aver the head by one of the bandits,
who used his gun as a club. DR.. Hail
ner was not seriously injured. The
bandhs who were in command OF
Wurpa Brothers and Silvestre Queve-
do then abandoned the train, carry
inc the loot away in mule-drawn
wagons.
There we're approximately 200 of
the bandits in the command which
held up the passenger train as it was
approaching Iaguna station. The
bandits, silhouetted against the sky
line, could be seen plainly by the en-
gine crew and passengers before the
train was stopped but because of the
nature of the country, escape from
the train was impossible. After COM
handing the engineer to stop the
train, one of the bandits went through
the train ordering all of the passen-
gers to alight IN order that they
could be searched by the others of
the bandits. The conductor Of the
passenger train, whose name is not
known, was shot in the hip by ban
dit.
The twenty-nine Carranza soldiers
from the Juare2 garrison, who woro
travelling in the box car just back Of
the engine tender, were ordered TO
alight and were shot down before the
passengers on the train. This mill
tary escort was in command Of Cap
tain Guzman, who was shot with his
men,
Robbed Women of Clothing.
After the execution of the Carran-
"a soldiers by the bandits the sys-
tematc looting of the train and the
robbing Of the passengers started, ac-
c0rding to the reports made to Cen
eral Treyino by the passengers who
arrived here on the train. The pas
sengers were robbed of their baggage
and personal belongings, even the
women passengers being robbed of
their clothing in spite of their pro-
tests. None Of the passengers except
Dr. Haffner was assaulted by the
bandits.
After robbing the passengers the
express car was looted and the con-
tents carried away in wagons drawn
by mule teams. These teams were
waiting at the Laguna station indi-
eating that the holdup of the train
was carefully planned. After holding
the train one and a half hours, the
bandits permitted it to continue to
Chihuahua city a distance OF about
sixty miles south of the scene of the
robbery and executions. The bandit
command marched away to the north
INTO the darkness after watching the
looted train depart. They are then
believed to have burned the bridges
pe,Ween Laguna and Gallego, twenty
miles north.
A military train carrying 400 Car
daIlza soldiers was sent out from
nauz' lWenty-six miles north of mere,
10 pursue the bandits, and a work
uaIn was sent from the railroad