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Follower of Mexican anarchist causes train crash
On this day in 1915, Luis De la Rosa, revolutionary and follower of the
Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón, caused a train crash at Tandy's
Station, eight miles north of Brownsville. The incident was one of
several raids by the Floresmagonista movement formed by De la Rosa and
Aniceto Pizaña. De la Rosa was also in command of a force that took part
in the Norias Ranch Raid. As one newspaper noted in 1916, "De la Rosa, a
large man in size, is said to have been the brains of what was known
among Mexicans as the revolution of Mexicans in Texas." De la Rosa
believed in direct action to correct injustices done to Hispanics on
both sides of the Rio Grande. He also raised an army of 500 men whose
raids and guerrilla fighting on the Mexican border of Texas were
connected with the Plan of San Diego, an effort to establish an
independent republic in the American Southwest. Cooperation between
Mexican and American authorities stopped the guerrilla raids along the
lower Rio Grande by 1919.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- DE LA ROSA, LUIS
- FLORES MAGON, RICARDO
- PIZANA, ANICETO
- NORIAS RANCH RAID
- PLAN OF SAN DIEGO
- MEXICAN REVOLUTION
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