Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-28
YAoUIs ARE ON The WARPATH
Town IL Raided and Americans and
Mexicans killed at Lam
ehOud.

Los ANGELES Cal, Dec. E.-Colonel
II. b. Maxson, VICE president of the Ma
uonal Irrigation congress and secretary Of
the Board Of Education of Reno, New, who
has been spending the last few weeks in
the state of Sonora, Mexico, arrived here
yesterday with a graphic description Of
the massacre Of Mexicans and whites which
occurred at the little town OF Lancho, on
the Cananea, Yaqm River & Pacific rail-
road, late Saturday afternoon.
According to the statement of Maxson,
his train stopped an hour at Lancho.
While there rumOrs were received that the
Yaquis were upon the war path and that
the few people in the neighborhood of the
station and railroad were in danger. The
station master, man named Thompson.
belittled the matter, and said he and his
wife would remain at their post
The train bearing Colonel Maxson and
party had not left the station for more
than an hour when the Yaquis descended
on the little party Of Mexicans and Amerl-
cans and butchereds four Station Agent
Thompson and his wife escaped by board
ing a work train chat pulled In at the
time.
The train appeared after four of the peo-
pie had been killed and Thompson and his
wife had defended themselves back of the
barricaded doors Of the station. As the
work train appeared the Indians withdrew.
The train bearing Colonel Maxson and
party continued to a station about fifteen
miles farther along the line, and then, as
the signs of the uprising became more
alarming, the party decided to return. The
train started back toward Lancho, and
when it arrived the station house had been
burned and demolished and four human
bodies lay along the track. The party
stopped few minutes in the hope that the
survivors might be found and taken to a
place of safety While the train was at
the ruins Of the station the desperadoes
appeared in the distance, but did not come
within range of the few armed people on
the train. The bodies of the victims were
still warm when Maxson saw them. and
with the aid of others on the train they
were given a hasty burial.
Not many miles along the road the scene
was duplicated. Four more dead bodies
of Mexicans and Americans were discov-
cred along the tracks. The little band at
this station had been able to repulse the
attack of the Yaquis with the loss of but
four of their number The remaining mem
bers of the company refused to leave on
the train, but said they could stand off the
Indians until the next day, when the
rurales would reach the spot and sum-
mary justice would be meted out to the
murderers If captured.
Ell PASO, Dec. ga special to the Her.
aid from Nogales Mex today says: De-
tails are arriving here OF the butchery Of
a party of Mexicans by Yaqui Indians near
Valencia, sixty miles below Guaymas.
Eleven Mexicans and one American were
killed and from all accounts there were
over 100 Indians I'm the attacking party.
The employees on the Southern Pacific rail-
road in that section are frightened. 1t is
said many are leaving and that the mas
sacre may delay the road to Guadalajara.
WASHINGTON, Dec. N.-The right of the
United States to intervene with the view
to suppressing the aiNsged murderous acts
of the Yaqui Indians In Mexico is seriously
questioned by officials of the State depart
ment. From the highest official sources
1t was explained today that Americans
and others who go into that part of Mexico
inhabited by the Yaquis do so at their own
risk. The case was said to be analogous
to the early days of the far west In the
United States, when prospectors and others
went into the Indian country, where it
was unsafe for white people to be, and 1t
was added that, had some foreign subject
been killed or injured, the government
would have resented interference from the
outside