THE MEXICAN TUNNEL HORROR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 7

THE MEXICAN TUNNEL HORROR.

\ RESCUE TRAINS EX ROUTS. 1 By Jeieera.ijli'-Bress Aeso.olati.tfn-QqDS'rijrUt New Yorkj February 8. A epecial train with coffins has been dispatched from the-'AiflorJonii'side to iWestigato the reported disaster to .tho train which Was-stated, in a telegram from. Jaureii ,yestorda ; i ! , to ,havo been, re- : duced to ashes, *n<l tli.o passengers fneineratedj in -a tunnel that ivnd been fired lay tlio Mexican bandit Castilio. Ottict indi.qat.jons point to Gastilid having sent a, burning freight tra.jit,. with the object uf blocking tho tunnel. ' Mr. Bryffit (Secretary of State) has demanded that tho Mexican rcbej fortes shall dispatch troops to -proven* Castillo attineli-iag tlm American' i-esciio train. REPORT FROM THf RESCUE PARTY. CHAMED iIBMAIMS FOUND. (Rec, February 10, 0.40 a.m.) .V&sMHgtori;. Februati , 8. A Teport from Chihaiifiau states t-liat nothing'but olintred bones and bftttofis : were fo-ttnd by tho' reseuo .party, whieh., with the aid of osvgeri, helitiets and pul* iftotors. succeeded in penetrating tlr.n Cumbra Tuiiflol as far as the kciointttive and tho fi'ysti two cars of tho passenger train., Tho remains aw supposed to be those of-the firemnn and ejigiiieer of Iho illfated train. It is now believed that every e-iio of the fifty or more passe-tigers', lijcltidinK the creAV, are dead. Whether the itfaiii hurried, into the tunnel to escape capture by Cftstilljo's band-its or w-hofher it was sent headlong to clestruetion. by the bandits inay licver lj.e known.