MEXICAN HORROR
80' PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH. LUnited Presa Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). MEXICO CITY, Oct. 11. Tlie cremation of eighty men. women and children in a church at San Carlos, ,- n t)he State of Tabasco, has ibecn revealed Iby private despatches. While the congregation were v early Mass, the doors of the chui’oh ward locked, and the building was then burned, those escaping from the church being shot down. The religious conflict which raged through last yea. ia still violent in Tabasco. Two priests who took refuge in a neighbouring ranch eventually escaped, but the two ranchers who sheltered them were later shot.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 October 1930, Page 5
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