Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1907-11-29
YAQU|S CONTINUE TO
KILL PEOPLE IN
MEXICO
Ell Fdso Men Encounter Two
Examples of Blood.
thirsty Reds.
GRIMES COMMITTED.
TO KILL AND ROB

Ell Paso, Texas, Nov. 29.-George
Souires. of the local smelter. and
Capt. Juan S. Hart, who yesterday
returned from a trip through Sonora,
bring with them stories OF brutal
murders and pillaging attacks Of
Yaqui Indians in that state, in spite
OF the official statements of Mexico
to the effect that "aIl Is quiet in So
nora"
These gentlemen saw pack train
81 23 burros and seven mules way
Md by Indians, wisa one man muir
dered. another desperately wounded,
and the freight OF the train scattered
over the trail for more than a mile
Mr.. Squfres and Captain Hart left
Douglas and went by way of Naco-
zari by train. to take coach to Moe
tezuma, where they secured horses
and rode into the country, en- route
to Batuc.
On the morning OF Saturday. Nov.
Esd, they set out from Moctezuma,
and at noon halted for lunch. Short
ly after they had made a halt two
Mexicans rode into their camp to
tell them that a few miles further
Yaquis had made a raid on a pack
train, had pillaged the freight and
had probably killed two OF the men
with the outfit.
Two Were Shot.
The two Americans Immediately
mounted and rode ahead. At Monton
de Lena they came upon the scene
of the raid. Flour, 5000 pounds OF
II, was scattered over the main trail
Tor distance of about a mile and
a half
A close search resulted in the find
ing of Francisco Apoderada, badly
wounded with bullet through his
right side. Apoderada was nervy.
He said nothing of his hurts and
simply asked for water. The Amer
leans gave him a drink of whisky
and proceeded in their search for
the other member OF the party.
They found him. Jose Moreno Oil
vas was discovered behind a bould-
er in the trail with a bullet through
his heart, and his head almost COM
pletely severed from his body. AS
an atrocity of the Yaqui method, his
neck had been cut not only from ear
to ear. but the akull was COM mpleteIy
separated from the shoulders. His
murderens and taken away with
them.
The wound OF Apoderada was at
tended to, and the Americans re-
sumed their journey pushing on 20
Tepachi. Shortly before they arriv-
ed there, on the morning of the
gath, they met a party Of four wo-
of the men, six were full grown
and eight were mere lads.
This party recited a story of at
tack from the Yaquis, and told Of
having fought them off. They also |
made gruesome find, in the discov- |
cry of one dead and one wounded in
the trail
The pack train surprised by the |
Yaqus which the Bl Paso men found |
had numbered five men. Two of |
them had been mounted, two un-
and unarmed. At the first |
fusilade OF the Indians, Oliyas had |
been killed and Apoderada wounded. |
The others escaped to tell the tale.
Manuel Ortiz and Atilano Agoes- |
Ia had brought the news to the two |
Americans.
Additional Raids Reported.
Raids by Indians were reported |
during the last week near Tepupa,
San Pedro and Monte Negro. These, |
with the killing at Monton de Lena |
and near Batuc, completed the tale |
of five raids, fatal in seven days.
Mr.. Squires and Captain Hart are |
both aroused over the fact that in |
spite OF the statement from Mexico
that the Indians are quiet, their own
experiences to the contrary, no one /
is allowed to enter the state " So
nora with firearms. An American GO
ing itno the republic Is at the mercy
Of marauding bands.
They say that en- route to FL Paso
they met j. w. Regan. locating en-
gineer for the Cananea, Yaqui River
& Pacific railroad, who said that
the only way he kept his men from
being massacred was 10 stay from
the main trail, and to keep to the
side, whore they had a halfway
equal chance with stray bands Of /,
Yaquis,