Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — BANDITS ROB A SILVER TRAIN. [ARTICLE]

BANDITS ROB A SILVER TRAIN.

Kill the Foreman and Get Possession of Much Valuable Ore. The authorities at Durango, Mexico, were notified, of a desperate murder and robbery committed about eighty miles west of there in the Sierra Madt e mountains, the perpetrators being a band of brigands led by the notorious outlxw, Francisco Eeiseda. A» mule train loaded with silver ore from the Santa Maria mine was on its way to t he reducing works when the bandits made an attack upon the guards, killing the foreman, Jose Nillaieel, who attempted to offeresistance. The other guards fled, leaving the burros with their precious cargoes in possession of the bandits, who drove the animals to their rendezvous in the mountains. A force of troops will be sent in pursuit of the robbers.