Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-01-12
(By Dispatch A. P. wire)


MEXICO CITY, Jan. 11.-G. M.
Wynkoop of Berryville, Va, repre-
sentative of the Buick Motor COM
pany and one of the two Americans.
aboard the train attacked by ban
dts Saturday night gave The AS
sociated Press a graphic account of
the, CHASTITY affair, He was the first
survivor to reach Mexico City.
saw nine soldier guards dead"
he said. Il believe all the guards
and most of the crew We're Killed.
The number of murdered Mexican
passengers I do not know, but some
of my companions estimated them
all the way from 20 to so.
"About dark Saturday I noticed
about 20 spicious-appea men
carrying rifles concealed under their
cloaks, who boarded the train as
passengers of a small station near
Guadalajara. Presently they station
ed themselves at the doors of each
coach, and without warning opened
fire upon the passengers in the sec
ond and third class coaches. They
, continued firing without mercy, kill
ing many of the passengers and all
the soldier guards.
Il saw several dead Mexican wo-
| men and children, in addition to
men, how many I do not know. It
was a ruthless massacre and most
terrible sight. Even now can hard
ly believe that such an awful thing
happened.
"I doubt if anybody will ever ac-
curately know the number of dead
and wounded. I saw wounded men
die, and others killed instantly
saw one aged woman writhing in
horrible agony, her body shot open
I saw a little baby shot through the
heart I saw bodies so burned as
to be almost indistinguishabIe from
the charred timebrs of the coaches.
Altogether it was perfect night
mare of incredibly wanton blood
thirstness.
"The sole and only mercy, which
cannot explain, was shown to
foreigners. Not a foreigner was kill
ed. A number of Germans in the
Pullman, together with passengers of
other nationaIities escaped unhurt.
1--WE are all busted, but thank
God we got away alive
Although the bandits did not harm
any foreigners, in the Pullman, they
took all valuables from the men, but
did not rob the foreign women. After
they had done their work of massacre
and robbery, the bandits, who had
with them an expert locomotive engi-
neer ran the train to Yurecuaro
station looted the town, wrecked the
depot, destroyed telegraph wires, shot
more Mexicans, disembarked all the
foreigners and ran the train for a
short ditance. They then burned and
wrecked every coach, stripping the
express baggage car of all valuables.
"Many of the bodies of the muir
dered Mexicans were cremated.
"The bandits next boarded the en-
gine after loading it with the loot,
and made their escape. Not a single
shot was fired at them, for the sol
dier guards were Killed on the first
attack and the passengers were too
fearful to attempt resistance.
81 heard the bandits shout, We
are not bandits; we are revolution
ists.'
q asked one of them: who are
you rebelling against? He answered:
Gales You watch developments.
The revolution is not over"
Il was told that the bandits were
all well known revolutionary fol-
lowers of the Guadalajara region.
'Most of the foreign passengers
camped out all night in the wrecked
town of Yurecuaro; some walked all |
night and most of them
made their way to Guadalajara. My
wife and myself after considerable /
hardships, succeeding in reaching
point where we could board train .
for Mexico City,"