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APPENDIX
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June 9. Robbers broke into the Aguila Co., office at Tepetate and forced open the cash drawer, stealing $967 in money.
June 12. During the encounter between the government and reactionary forces the camp office of Cia. Metropolitana de Oleoductos S. A. at Palo Blanco was ransacked and the sum of $1,100.81 Mexican gold currency was stolen, in addition to a considerable quantity of material and commissary supplies.
June 24. On the night of June 24 the Mexican Gulf Oil Co/s, large earthen storage oil reservoir at Tepetate set afire. Contained about 150,000 barrels of fluid. Approximately 80,000 to 90,000 barrels of fluid burned or lost by reason of this fire.
June 26. One of the Texas Co/s employees was robbed near Topila, but fortunately had only a few dollars with him.
June 27. Foreign employees run out of Palo Blanco after a regular battle.
June 28. Two employees of Aguila Co., attacked on road and left for dead, being shot and hacked with machetes.
June 29. Five armed men robbed Mexican Gulf Co. terminal four miles above fiscal wharf at Tampico. Four men, all Americans, murdered.
June 30. Topila superintendent of La Corona Co. taken away and held for ransom. July 30. A. W. Stevenson, camp cashier of the pipe line camp of the Texas Co., at Tepetate, was murdered by bandits upon his refusal to open his safe and deliver its contents.