New York Times 100 years ago today, May 9, 1913:
Shots of Assailants Hit Dynamite Car, Causing Explosion.
NOGALES, Arizona, May 8.— Two hundred lives are reported lost in a train disaster near the Sinaloa-Sonora border yesterday.
State troop leaders say that a train bearing 250 Federal soldiers was fired into, the shots exploding a car of dynamite, which the Federals were conveying to Guaymas.
Only fifty of the passengers are reported to have escaped death and others were wounded.
The troops were moving from San Blas, in Northern Sinaloa, to Alamos, below Guaymas, from which point the insurgents feared they would reinforce the garrison defending the gulf port.
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