Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-06-27 | Page 7 | Woman Tells How Husband Was Murdered

OMAN TEllS HOW HOVi HUSBAND WAS NAS MURDERED Kansan Reviews Horrors 1 of Indian Raids in Yaqui Valley NOGALES Ariz June 26 G. Mrs Susan Walker of ot Kansas City a n. refugee refu goo gee from tho the Yaqui valley tonight described how Indians led lod by bya a giant one-armed one ne negro ro murdered her husband hus hue band and ravaged her ranch four ty-four miles cast east of I 1 went to the Yaqui valley alley a aan woman wom an Rn of 33 23 she said tho horrors I haTO seen changed mo me to tD a n woman of or 50 v When the and Mayos were con on n tho warpath all aU our Chinese and Mexican hands fled from our ranch El EI Piedra Blanca We Wo decided to seek refuge at Esperanza the AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican colony but received news that the Indians had raided it and killed fifty people We Ye stayed therefore where we were S Sacked One Mexican a a god shot stayed shot stayed frith us A manro manzo Yaqui passed one da day and told us the tho tribesmen had md sacked which is forty- forty two miles north and were coming I our wa way I IliThe liThe They arrived a week later Inter about led by Chief a n negro negro noro ne no gro ro with one arm and a squint eye They demanded food and said that if w Ve wp were wore hiding an any Mexicans there they th would torture m my husband to death Our 1 Mexican n hid in iii the cel lar InT They ate all aU the food tood and 1 burned the barn Ambushed Again Next day we saddled up and struck out for tor Esperanza for tor provi provi- Sixty ambushed us us but b but t we got awa away A mile tulle further on we were wore ambushed again My hus bus baud an m Englishman was killed My horse ran away and anti I escaped Three weeks later wo yo recovered ered my bus hus- bands band's body X The Tue colony at Esperanza was heavily barricaded and prepared for fora a siege No trains were running and thc the Mc Mexican cican troops at Fundacion could not nol give us protection there at SochI or at our ranch I reached Guaymas by hy traveling on horseback hy bY military train and by br boat