The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-14
ysoUIS AFTER DIAZ'S SCALP.
RAND OF INDIANS RAID THE
TOWN OF NOGALEs.

Wont for Arms and Ammuni-
They Loot the Custom House.
49,. Driven by Citizens Into the
,,oods-IOsses on Both Sides-The
vuitary Force of the Town In
.-eased-Indians sHII ON the War
path.
v,.srireton. Aug 13.-The state depart
rs-- has received the following telegram,
5.-sl Yesterday, from r. Hughes Long
,,-sr.esn consul at Nogales, Mexico:
av,a.i Indians took Nogales by surprise
,pis morning at 3 o'clock and held 1t two
.,-~s Two Yaquis were killed and one
.,tep prisoner Four Mexican guards
we're killed and two wounded.
,-.ga1ss Ariz.. Aug 1S.-After the Yaqui
r-4f,rs were run out Of town yesterday
-,oruing by the citizens and officers, Capt.
p sanchez of the Mexican police and a
,,msaDv Of men pursued them. The
r.rr, was accompanied by Juan Fernan-
dsz cashier Of the Mexican custom house.
They overlook the Indians five miles
west Of Nogales, near the lake The IN
dtaps opened fire, killing the captain and
the horse ridden by Fernandez Ihe
otber men escaped TO Nogales and gave
the alarm. Twenty men Immediately LETT
for the scene and brought the dead body
of can't Sanchez to Nogales
The Indians fled into the mountains
near bv. where they are now camped,
burning signal fires, which indicates that
they are still on the warpath.
Col Kosterlitzh arrived last night with
sixty picked men, Mexican gendarmes'
and left for the mountains.
II was learned last night that 800 Yaqui
Indians had Joined the other fdbusters'
and that they crossed over to American
soil The Indians seem to be crazed with
their fanatical ideas and their worship of
Santa Teresa, but they evidently 40 not
desire to injure Americans, as seYeral
who were across the line when the nSht-
ing began yesterday morning had their
guns taken away. and were tod to get
back, as they were not after any one pu'
Mexcans These they expected TO cap
ture and then to assume control OF the
government affairs themselves.
The main object of the raid was TO Sc
cure the arms ammunition and money
in the custom house when they intended
10 start for the city of Mexico TO over
throw the DiaZ government.
Late last evening one Of the Yaqui
chiefs walked into town and was captur-
ed. This makes two prisoners and eight
dead Indians, while seven officers and
citizens are dead.
Copies of the independents, LaurC
Aguirre's paper published at El Paso
Tex, were received in town yesterday
and some Of them were found on the dead
Yaquis. The papers were dated June
and July 25 1886, and were special editions
containing nothing but revolutionary
matter against the Mexican government
Some people think Lauro Aguirre wa,
with the raiders, but no one seems to have
recognized him.
The prisoner, Francis Vasquez, was seer
last night by correspondent of the South
ern Associated Press. He says eighteer
Indians held a meeting Tuesday night a
Tubas, twenty-five miles north Of No
gales and organized foE the start. They
went to Huevavi, eight miles from No
gales, where they made a short stop be.
fore entering the town, at o'clock. There
were about fifty more MeXicans and in.
dlans in waiting there. Within thirty min.
utes after their arrival the attack was
made on the Mexican custom house He
SAYS he does not know what their in.
lenuons were, but the chief told him tC
come along and help make the attack OF
ne would be killed. Many Of those who
joined me party were well known, having
worked on the railroad and doing odd iobs
around the town