The Bisbee Deportation, part 2

On July 12, 1917; at 6:30 a.m., approximately 2,000 vigilantes, who had been assembled by the mining companies and organized by the Cochise County Sheriff, Harry Wheeler, began rounding up union workers that had waged a labor strike against the mines in the area. Men were rousted out of bed, taken from their houses and kidnapped off the streets. Most of these men were beaten and robbed. Later, it has been confirmed, the wives and daughters of many of these men were raped by vigilante members. Many of the men that were rounded up were not strikers or even union members! Two men were killed during this roundup. The men that were kidnapped by the vigilantes were marched, at gunpoint, for distances up to 4 miles. They were held at Warren Ballpark, the local baseball stadium that is now used by both the Bisbee High School football and baseball teams. The high, stockade-like, wooden fence that surrounds the stadium served as an effective barrier against escape. At 11:00 a.m.
1,186 men were loaded onto railroad boxcars that were filled with deep manure, and shipped out of Warren. They did not have any food or water, nor were they given any.
The train was sent to Columbus, New Mexico, approximately 220 miles away. However, when the train arrived in Columbus, it was turned away because the town did not have the accommodations for that many people. As the train headed back west, it stopped 20 miles west of Columbus in the tiny town of Hermanas, which is now a ghost town. Once the train stopped in Hermanas, everyone was ordered off the train by the armed guards. After they all got off the train, everyone was told that if they ever returned to the Bisbee area they would be killed. Then the train left them behind and headed back to Warren. The next day, a train arrived with food rations and water, but everyone was left without shelter for 3 days until U.S. Army troops arrived from Camp Furlong in Columbus(the site of the famous raid by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa one year earlier. The troops took everyone to Camp Furlong where some of them were detained without being charged with a crime for several months.