Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-27
YAQUI INDIANS ARE AGAIN ON
 WAR PATH
Reports Received at NogaIeS and Tucson of Killing and Wounding of MexicanS at
 Station on Y. R. 6 Pac. R. R.

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 MORALES. Ariz.. Dec. 26.-The faqui Indians are again on the war path in Sonora. Reports received here by railroad officials today tell of an attack by the Indians on Lencho station on the line of the Cananea, Yaqui River & Pacific railroad on Saturday night in which eight Mexi- cans were killed and the tent houses at the station all burned. Undoubted- ly all of those living at the station including Foreman Thompson, in charge of the camp. and his wife would have been massacred but for the timely arrival of a work train having large crew of men who joined the defenders of the station
 Reports from the same vicinity tell of murders and outrages perpetrated by the Yaquis on Thursday and Fri day nights. The victims were all on their lonely ranches.
 Details of the outbreak are extreme ly meagre but show that the situation is serious. For several weeks past restlessness has been observed among the Indians but an outbreak was hard ly anticipated. No unusual prepara- ton had been made for Yaqui attack and most of those killed were shot down before any effort at defense could be made.
 The band of outlaw Indians is said to number about one hundred. Rumors of their depredations were rife on Saturday when many ranchers. fled to the towns for safety and reported number of murders in the district southeast of GuayInas. IL was not believed. however, that the Yaquis would dare to attack a railroad sta tion.
 Lencho is one of the smallest sta tions on the Cananea, Yaqui River & Pacific railroal About twenty-five men under Foreman Thompson are employed there, mostly engaged in well boring. No sentries had been posted and the first intimation of the attack was a yolley of rifle shots fired into the tent houses. Immedi- ately afterwards the houses were set on fire and by the light of the flames the Yaquis shot at the frightened Mexicans who were trying to escape. The report received at Nogales says that in addition to the eight men killed at the station a number of Mexi- cans were wounded. At a time when all of the residents of the camp, in. cluding Thompson and his American wife seemed doomed, the whistle of work train was heard and few min utes later the train pulled into the station.
 The crew of the trainimmediately went to the assistance of the people at the station and the Indians took to flight
 Mexican troops are now in pursuit of the band and it is belitved that it will soon be run down and captured. Soldiers are being rushed to the trou- bled district in large numbers as the government is determined to make short work of the latest outbreak. It is believed that the outbreak will not prove general and that the trouble has all been caused by one large renegade 1 band.
 TUCSON, Dec. 26.-The Cananea, Yaqui River. & Pacific railroad is one of the Randolph lines. It was stated at the offices in Tucson this afternoon that news had been received of the at tack on Lencho Station, but that it was not believed to be of as serious nature as reported from Nogales. The report received by the officials of the line here stated that in the at. tack on the station several Mexicans were killed. several wounded and a few tent houses burned. All that the station consisted of was one small building and the tents of some Mexi- can well borers.