The record-union., 1899-08-23
Gen. Torres Has Three Sharp En-
gagemsnts With Redskins
Before the Mexican Troops Succeed Ia En-
tering Their Stronghold.
The Indians Make an Attack on
the Town of Cumuripa, but the
Citizens, After Ten Hours
Siege, Succeed in Forcing Them
to Retire.

T POTAM (Mexico), Aug. 10 (via No
gales, Ariz., Aug. 22).-On Thursday
General Torres gave the order to ad-
vance on Vicam. Three sharp engage
ments We're founght before the troops
succeeded in entering the stronghold.
The Indians met the Government
| forces first about half a mile from
| ViCam and fell back. They rallied
again on the outskirts of the Pueblo,
and were driven in. The soldiers were
| advancing in the form of a half moon,
and when they reached Vicam it re-
quired a desperate struggle before the
Indians were driven from their posi-
| tion.
In three engagements two Mexicans
We're killed and twenty-five wounded,
among the latter being two Captains,
Reynaldo Aportal and Aurelio, both of
the Eleventh Regiment. Forty Yaquis
were killed and the number Of wound
| ed is known to have been heavy.
| The Yaquis retreated in the jungle
| to the southwestward, and were fol-
| lowed by General Torres, who again
overlook them. The Indians numbered
about 700, while the Generals COM
mand was about 1000 strong. The bat
tie was fought on August 18th, and the
MeXicans had two men killed and nine
teen wounded. Twenty dead Indians
were found in the holes from which
they fought
Loretta Villa, one of the chiefs who
led the Yaquis in their ten years war
against the Government is now fight
ing with the Mexican army. He led
the troops through a heath, and they
were enabled to make a rear attack,
badly worsting the Indians in the fight.
When the General entered the church
at Vicam shortly after taking possess
sion he found evidences indicating that
Father Beltran and the Josephine Sis
ters, who are prisoners of the Indians,
had left there but a couple of hours
| before. The candles on the altar were
| burning, and in their living rooms
everything was in order and dinner
cooking on the fireplace. In all their
warfare the Yaquis have never been
known to have killed priest, who are
! always we'll treated and protected by
I the religious tribes.
The excessive heat is something aw-
| full along the river country During
the march of 200 men of the One Hun
dred and Fifteenth Regiment from
Batamotal Station to Torin there were
| ten deaths from sunstroke and sixty
six prostrations, and two deaths among
them when they reached TOrin on Au-
gust 18th.
YAQUIS ATTACK CUMURIPA.
AUSTIN (Tex), Aug. pa dispatch
from Chihuahua, Mexico, says the mili-
tary authorities there received tele-
graphic advices to-day of an attack on
the town of Cumuripa by a band Of
300 Yaqui Indians. The place was
without military protection, but the
Mexican citizens barricaded themselves
in their adobe houses and resisted the
attack for ten hours, when the Indians
withdrew. Several houses were burned
by the Indians, and five men and wo
men were killed. 1t is thought that
a number of Indians were killed and
wounded, but as they We're carried Off
the number of casualties cannot be def
initely stated.
| AS soon as the Indians withdrew a
courier was sent to Torin for military
protection, and two troops of cavalry
have been ordered to Cumuripa.