Chihuahua Massacre
August 20, 2026
On Jan. 11, 1916, a band of Pancho Villa’s men attacked a Mexican Northwestern Railway train near Chihuahua City, killing 18 mining men, most of them engineers from El Paso who had been traveling under assurances of safe passage to the Cusi mining district. One survivor, Tom B. Holmes, escaped and…
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