One Hundred Years of Solitude

details how the army had
machine-gunned more than
three thousand workers
penned up by the station and
how they loaded the bodies
onto a two-hundred-car train
and threw them into the sea.
Convinced as most people
were by the official version
that nothing had happened,
Fernanda was scandalized
with the idea that the child
had inherited the anarchist
ideas of Colonel Aureliano