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Lost Island News and train attack details
Local notes from Lost Island cover social calls, visits, and farm work. A later report details a deadly train ambush near Olmito, with rifle fire on a passenger car, robberies totaling about $500, and dramatic witness statements from District Attorney John I. Kleiber describing the assault and thefts amid the Mexican bandits escape.
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McBee
Brasher
Layman
John I. Klieber
Corpus
Brownsville
Olmita
Luis de la Rosa
Viva Carranza
Hand
Cay
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