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Show LEE RASMUSSEN of Richfield, Rich-field, who was one of five Americans tortured to death by Yaquis. UTAH. YAQUI VICTIM, - TORTUREDTD DEATH Lee Rasrnussen of Richfield Is Killed, With Four Other Americans. Keeping up a desperate battle against overwhelming odds, though fatally wounded in the early .stages of the encounter, en-counter, Tee Rasrnussen, 22 years of age, of Richfield, Utah, was one of the party' of five Americans captured and tortured to death by Taqui Indians at Esperanza, seventy miles south of Guaymas, Sonora, on Thursday, December 6. The report was brought into Nogales Saturday, December De-cember 8, by an American mining man, but the identity of Rasrnussen was only determined after investigation by The Tribune correspondent at Nogales. Rasrnussen is the son of Edward Rasrnussen Ras-rnussen of the bureau of geographic survey sur-vey of the federal government, stationed at Richfield. Mrs. Rasrnussen, the mother, also resides at Richfield. Robert Rob-ert Elliott of Provo, connected with the Provo branch of the International Harvester Har-vester company there, is an uncle. The last the relatives of young Rasrnussen Ras-rnussen heard from him was some little time ago. He was then in Nevada, ranching, ranch-ing, and told his folks he was going to Juarez, Mexico, to attend the races, which at that time he did not know had been called off because of the unsettled conditions con-ditions in northern Mexico. According to the most recent and dependable de-pendable reports of the massacre, which included five Americans, one German and three Chinese known to be killed, ami forty Germans missing, Rasrnussen put up r determined tight to the last. The attack, however, was a surprise, the Indians In-dians creeping .slowly up upon their victims vic-tims under cover of darkness. When the reports reached American Consul Simpirh of Guaymas he went to the scene of the battle personally. A horrible sight met his eyes, for the victims vic-tims of the wholesale murder were left by ihe Indians where they had fallen. So badly mutilated were the bodies which were found three days after the massacre mas-sacre that the American consul ordered them burned where they fell. The Americans who lost their lives were living in a colony with the Germans. Ger-mans. Besides Rusinnssen there were Henry Farnuni. Jack Eppler, Fred Hahn and George Boxer. The German killed was Lucas Vogelnient. Similar Yaqui uprisings in other parts of Sonora hnv also been reported to General Gen-eral P. Ellas Calles, military governor of that state. The Americans and foreigners at Guaymas Guay-mas and Klpalme at last reports were guarding their homes and the searchlights search-lights mounted at the shops of the Southern South-ern Pacific of Mexico in Elpalme at night are being played on the encircling hills, to prevent the possibility of another surprise sur-prise attack. |