Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-12
TROOPS WIPE OUT
TRAIN MASSACRE
BAND IN MEXICO
Recover All Loot-Horror of
Gangs Attack Revealed
by Americans.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
RUTHLESSLY SHOT DOWN
Twenty Bodies Already Found in
Burned Coaches-All For
eigners Are Safe.
BY the Associated Press

ME\ICO CITY, January l2.-An
unknown number of the bandits who
massacred passengers and guards on "A
train running between GuadaIa IA jara
and Mexico City Sunday night have
been killed IN a fight with federal
troops. Eight others who We're cap.
tured We're Immediately executed. All
the loot secured by the bandits has
been recovered and the bandits are
believed to have been entirely dis
persed
This announcement was made early
this morning by the war department
here.
Dispatches from Zamora. in the
State of Michoacan. previously said
the bandits had passed through that
city yesterday morning. fleeing from
the federal troops and that later they
We're surrounded.
After the bandits last Sunday night
ruthlessly murdered passengers and
guards, 1000 troops started securing
the mountainous regions Of the States
Of Guerro. Jalisco and Nichoacan.
They We're under orders to bring in
the bandits. dead or alive.
Twenty Bodies Found
Just how many persons met death
when the bandits opened fire on man.
woman and child passengers and
knitted the train guards, or who peI
ished later in the burning coaches
which the bandits set on fire is un-
certain. Twenty bodies, burned be
yond identification. at last accounts.
had been removed from the debris. Es-
Inmates Of the fatalities run as high
as fifty.
None of the foreigners on the train
was injured. but all of them were rob
bed. G.. NJ. Wynkoop OF Berryville
Va, a representative of the Buick
Motor Co, who was a passenger on
the train, gave a graphic account on
his arrival here.
As darkness fell 30 men with rifles
stationed themselves at the doors and
immediately began firing on passen-
gers in the second and third class
coaches. No mercy was shown Wom-
en- and children were brutally shot
down. the same as men. All the sol
dier guards were slain.
All together it was a perfect night
mare of incredibly wanton blood
thirstiness, said MIR. Wynkoop.
Bandits Drove Train.
When the horror had been completed
in the cab of the engine. ran the train
to the station of Yurecuaro. Here they
looted the town, cut the telegraph
wires and murdered other Mexicans.
The foreign passengers were forced to
leave the train, which was taken up
the line short distance and set on
fire, but not before the express and
baggage cars had been looted of val
uables. These were placed on the en-
gine. which was uncoupled, and
driven away.
Mr.. Wykoop said he heard the ban
dts shout: We are not bandits. We
are revolutionists." One of the Mexi-
cans told him that they We're rebel
ling against President Gales. You
watch developments" he added. THE
revolution Is not over
Most of the foreigners camped out
Sunday night in the wrecked town
of Yurecuaro. Others walked
throughout the night and finally
reached Guadala jara. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wynkoop walked until they found a
train for Mexico City. They suffered
considerable hardship.
The other American on the train
was a mining man from Pachuca
named Russell Mrs. G. H. Sharratt.
wife of the manager of the Guada
Iaiara branch of the Bank of Mon
treal, and her five-monthS- old baby,
also were passengers.
They arrived at Guadalaiara un-
harmed.