MASSACRE BY YAQUIS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1993, 31 January 1907, Page 1

MASSACRE BY YAQUIS.

Colonel H. 13. Maxson, vice-presi-dent of the National Irrigation Congress, and secretary Of tile Board of Education of Reno, Nov., who has been spending the past few weeks in the State of Sonora, Mexico, arrived in Los Angeles on December 26 with a graphic story of the massacre of Mexicans and Americans which occurred at the little station of Lanclio last Saturday afternoon. According to the statement of Maxson, his train stopped an hour at Lanclio. While there rumors were received that the Yaquis were upon the warpath, and that the few -eople in the neighborhood of the station and railroad were in danger. The stationmaster, a 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 more than an hour when the Yaquis descended upon the little party of Mexicans and Americans and butchered four. Station Agent Thoinjison and bis wife escaped by boarding a work train that pulled in at the time. The train appeared after four of the people had been killed, and Thompson and his wife had defended themselves hack of the barricaded doors of tlic station. As the work train appeared the Indians withdrew. The train bearing Colonel Maxson and party continued to a station about fifteen miles farther alor _ the line ,and then, as the signs of the desperado uprising became more alarming, the party decided to return. The train started back towards Lanclio, and when it arrived the sta-tion-house had boon burned and demolished, and four human bodies lay along the tracks. Not very many miles along the road the scene was duplicated. Four more bodies of Mexicans and Ame.ricans were discovered along the tracks. The litt o 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 niembeis or the company refused to leave oil the train, hut said that they could stand off the Indians until the next day when the Kurales could reach the spot, and summary justice would be meted out to the murderers, if captured.