Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-19
FUCKER TELLS
 OF THE yAQU|s
 AT .NACOzAR|
Was an Eye Witness to Their Murder of Three Mexicans and Suffered Loss of Clothes and Rifles.

! DOUGLAS, Aug. 1s.-( Special )- So far as can be learned there were So far as can be learned there were
 no new developments in the Yauui
 situation yesterday beyond the an
 nouncement that troops were being
 drafted at Agua Prieta to increase the guard along the line and to proceed south against the warning party of
 Indians. Passengers from the south Iyesterday, some of whom had come
 from the close vicinity of the outrages,
 reported that the natives were much
 frightened and were leaving the small
 mining camps to seek refuge in the larger camps and settlements. T. J.
 Key had passed over the place of
 massacre on his way up from Cumpas and stated that from appearances
 many shots must have been fired, pos
 sibly about hundred.
 The prompt action of Superintend-
 ent James Douglas in extending all possible aid to tke officers is bearing
 good fruit and tends to reassure the
 frightened Mexicans. He conscripted
 some of his best miners and best men
 from the other departments of the
 company and they are out in pursuit
 of the Yaquis under pay from the
 company.
 E. c. Fucker, whose camp was raid ed by the Yaquis and Yho was pres ent at the massacre yesterday, gave
 Dispatch representative the following account of the affair:
 "I was sittiEg in one of the houses l Friday afternoon, patching a boot. The l door was opened and several Indians,
 and one man 1 took for a Mexican, i stepped in. l ordered them to get out. and do it quick The leader of the party, at that. covered me with his rife and said that they wanted all | had-arms, ammunition, food and clothing. l got mad and told them to 1 get out or I'd shoot 'em up, but the | chief repeated his demands and saw that they meant business and
 would kill me as they had threatened 1 if l diG not comply. So I told them
 where everything was-and they took everything. They even took the
 clothes of my back. down to the un- derelothes. They let me go in and out
 but guarded me ali the time They put out a guard on the road.
 Presently two men were seen rid ing along, and the Yaquis called to them to halt and surrender. Instead they spurred their animals to greater
 endeaYors. The Indians opened fire.
 killing one of the men very quickly.
 The other, though, kept riding on They then shot his horse several | times, and it finally fell, when the In, dians got the rider. l made ali kinns of motions to the fellow to ride for thicket-and l feel sure his horse would have taken him that far, as 1t was brave, nervy animal; but he did | not seem to heed, and kept right afong in the open. Well they sure filled i him full of holes and then they stripped l him. This excited them wonderfully. and for time 1 thought they ght ! turn their attention to me, but they l never seemed to have a thought of | harming me. Soon after they had com mitted these murders another Mexican came along and they took him prison | CT. This one they Skct down without 2 word of warning-just simply mur- i dered him. The second man shot had | a lot of nerve, too Just as his horse ! toppled over in failing he jumped free ! of the saddle and started to run tor the | thicket. He got a bullet somewhere and toppled over to the ground, but in an instant picked up again and made ] lively run for cover, but anoher bull l let stopped him and he dropped dead Several Indians went to where he was, | returning with ms gun, ammunition
 and clothing. as we'll as the accoutFe-
 ments on the horse. The third man killed was so close when the shot was
 fired that the powder burned his clothes.
 T believe that if the Mexicans had stopped and surrendered when they
 were ordered to do so by the YaqUis. that the latter would not have killed
 them They did not seem bloodthirsIy until they had committed the first two murders after which they were dreadfully excited and ready and will ing for anything. They wanted arms and ammunition. but when they had
 gotten a fight they seemed to want more"