Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1916 — DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MEX. WRECK TRAIN [ARTICLE]

DEATHS OCCUR WHEN MEX. WRECK TRAIN

Bandits Just Across Border Get Big Loot When They Steal U. S. and Carranza Gold. Eagle Pass, Texas, May 15.—Twen-ty-four persons were killed, it was stated by authorities in Piedraa Negras, opposite "here, tonight, in the derailment by bandits of a through passenger train from Mexico City to Laredo, Friday, between Queretaro and Empalme Gonzales. Many persons escaped from the train and walked back to Empalme Gonzales, 9 miles distant, in their bare feet, where a relief train was made up. Many thousands of dollars in new Carranza currency was said to have been taken by the bandits. In the train was the private car of Charles A. Douglas, Carranza representative at Washington. His car ws not*molested. The bandits entered the second class car in front and worked their wajgjtoward the rear, robbing all passeppers. Among the passengers reported robbed were two army paymasters, who lost the funds they were carrying, one $20,000 and the other $16,000, in the new Garrauza currency. A paymaster of the El Oro Mining company lost $35,000 in the new Carranza currency and an American named B 1 lost $3,000 in gold. The express car is said to have contained 1,000,000 pesos in the new currency, but owing either to the desire of the bandits to get away hurriedly or from ignorance of the contents of the car, it was not broken open, although it left the track and rolled down the embankment.