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Show AMERICAN WOMAN IS YAQUIS' VICTIM Manages to Escape Prom Masacre on' Board Train and is Now in a Hospital. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. A report by; the American consul at Nogales to the state department on the massacre Wednesday of passengers on a Southern-1-Pacific train by Yaqui Indians in Mex-o f ico adds to the news dispatches the in- J , formation that an American woman was one of the victims. She was stripped ' of her clothing, but escaped and is now t in a hospital at Empalme, a suburb of ' ' Guaymas. . The report says the Yaquis placed an , ' obstruction on the track over which the engine and the cars carrying the mili-"' tary escort passed saf'el but the pas-" senger coaches were derailed. The Indi-' ans entered the coaches, killing the pas-, sengers in their seats. Fire, placed . beneath the cars, failed to burn them. ' The engine was cut looe and run to Lencho station, where Mexican troops were loaded and carried hack to the wreck and drove the Indians away. Information reaching the consul is that 800 Yaquis were in the attacking party. It appears that of the eighty passengers on the trains, only seven 4 escaped unharmed. |