Juarez, Miquel

JUAREZ

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 11/27/2011 at 21:15:03

Juarez, Miquel -
Funeral services for Miquel Juarez, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Santiago Juarez of Kent, were held Saturday morning at Kent and burial was in the Calvary cemetery near Creston.

Young Juarez died Tuesday at Las Vegas, N. M., from injuries received in a roalroad collision at Santa Rosa, N. M., April 7, while returning from Juarez, Mexico, where he had been held captive by the rebels for several weeks. He was removed to a hospital and a leg was amputated. According to news received here, he did not recover satisfactorily from his operation.

Juarez's death was the climax of an adventure starting the latter part of March when he was given a railroad pass to Denver for his work on a section gang at Kent and left on a vacation. Nothing was heard from him for six weeks. Then a message came saying he was held captive by the rebels at Juarez. Communication with the American consul obtained his release and it was while on the trip from the rebel camp that he was in the collision.

Miquel was at one time a student in the Lenox High school and later attended school in Creston.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa Thursday June 13, 1929