Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1916 — MEX BANDITS KILL MORE AMERICANS [ARTICLE]

MEX BANDITS KILL MORE AMERICANS

Bandit Raids In Vicinity of Guaymas, Sonora—Villa Reported to Be • Far Away.

San Diego, April 12.—Several Americans have been killed or wounded in bandit raids in the vicinity of Guaymas, Sonora, according to a naval radio message received here today. The message was forwarded to the navy department' at Washington and resulted in an order to the cruiser Denver, now at San Blas, Stale of Tepic, to steam for the Sonora seaport and investigate. El Paso, Tex., April 12. —A band - of Villa followers numbering several hundred, and possibly a thousand, have sacked Sierra Mojada, 5 miles across the Coahuila line, and 80 miles east of Jiminez, destroying many thousands of dollars worth of American property and looting the town of everything of value.. This news, which may prove to be of the highest importance, as it is believed possible Villa himself was among the raiders, was received here today by the representative of one of the largest American mining concerns in Mexico and is accepted by him as authentic;