The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-22
YAQUIS KILL AMERICANS.
j. X. MACKENZIE, DIR. COY AND
THREE OTHERS MURDERED
Mr. Mackenzie was n Well known Chicago
Mining Engineer; DIR. Coy Chicago
DentlSt--The Party Had Conc to Mexico
TO Look After some Gold Mines.


TO Look AFTER some Gold Mines.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2l,-Suppemental de-
! spatohes concerning the attack made by
laQui Indians on n party OF mining pros
pectors near Torres, Sonora Mex, on
Friday indicate that five men we're killed.
John Kenneth Mackenzie, son-in-law of
the late DR.. Clinton Locke. and Dr. Robert
Coy. both OF this city, are known TO have
been among the victims Of the savages.
Friends of William Chapman Potter, son
Of h. A. Potter, president Of the American
Trust and Savings Bank, fear that he was
with the party and shared u similar fate.
Although he is supposed to have been
some distance from the scene Of the attack.
his friends say there is a possibility that he
was with Mackenzie and DR.. Coy and was
killed
Edwin A. Potter has asked the aid of
Secretary of the Navy Morton, who is
the young mans father-in-law, to find his
son. Mi Morton replied to-day that he
would do all in his power 10 find the missing
man. The young mans wife, who ia now
at Cuernavaca. Mexico, has also been tele-
graphed to institute search for her
husband.
Mr. Mackenzie was one Of the foremost
mining engineers Of the United States,
and a member OF the engineering firm OF
Dickman, Mackenzie Il Potter. He left
Chicago a week ago last Sunday to inspect
a gold mine owned by the Chicago Pneu-
matte Tool Company, thirty miles east Of
Torres. in the mountains of western Sonora.
DR.. Coy, dentist. who discovered the mine
five years ago accompanied him. They
are believed to have been under escort Of
an armed guard of FIVE Mexcans when
slain.
MIR. Mackenzie was ~ years old and
born in London He accumulated a for
tune in the Hawaiian Islands and later
was a cattle rancher in Kansas. He gradu-
ated as a mining engineer from the Shelf
field Scientific School at Yale, He mar
ried Miss Fannie Locke, daughter of the
late Rev. Clinton Locke rector of Grace
Church for many years. They have two
sons aged 10 and years.
Mr. Mackenzie was a member of the
University Club. the Chicago Athletic
Club, the Society Of Chemical Industry Of
England and the American Chemical
Society. Dr. Coy was AZ years old and
leaves. besides his widow, daughter and
a son.
1t is only few days ago that Ira A.
Sanger. another Chicago man, more recently
resident Of Colorado. was killed in the
same hostile Yaqui region.
News Of the murder of Mr. Mackenzie
and Dr., Coy was contained in a brief tee-
gram received yesterday at the office OF
". O. Duntley. vicepresdent of the Chicago
Pneumatic Tool Company. Mrs. Mac
kcnzie il in Washington with Mrs Theodore
- rry 81 onts at tie new Willard Hotel.
A telegram asst nigh, from Wellington
laid ut Yrs Mackenzie had no details
OF the ira edy except that the entire party
had been killed by the Indians.
despatch from Hermoeilo, Mexico, says
that the assassination was done by the
servants who accompanied the party, and
that there were no Indians in that neigh
borhood at the me A force Of Rurales.
or country ponce, was despatched 70 the
scene Of the crime as soon as it became
known TO the authorities, and they are
searching for the murderers.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, Jan. p Among the
five Americans killed 10y the Yaqui Indians
near Sonora, Mexico, reported to-day, was
Merrill Call son OF A. p. Call,who is a wealthy
and influential citizen here Merrill Call,
who was an engineer by profession, went 20
Sonora. Mexico, TO represent his fathor-n-
law, Mr.. Iolerton OF Toledo. Ohio, with
whom he was Interested in mines As Mr.
Tolerton's sons left with him, it supposed
that they may have been among the killed.
Mr.. Calls wife had gone TO Mexico with
him. but was returning to this city when
intercepted 10y news Of the death Of her
HI and No details Of the killing were
Civ in the despatch
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2l.-The state De-
partment has instructed Powell Clayton,
United States ambassador at the City of
Mexico, to make every effort 10 recover the
body of John Kenneth Mackenzie who,
according to a message rec iyed here last
night was murdered by Yaqui Indians,
near Hcrmosillo, Sonora. Mexico
Consul Albert r. Morawetz at Nogales,
which is near the scene Of the massacre.
has also been instructed TO endeavor to find
the body Of Mr. Mackenzie and TO rescue
any members Of his prospecting party who
may s,ill be living
Secretary Morton, who is a friend OF tho
Macken2ies and who was the first to get
the news last night. has telegraphed the
Governor of Sonora, a personal friend to
supply some information regarding the
event Mrs Mackenzie has started for
Mexico.