Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-10-01 | Page 7 | Indian Deserters Murder Captives

11 DESERTERS 1RQERCAPIES STORY COMES FROM MEXICO OF ATROCITY COMMITTED BY BLOODTHIRSTY YAQUIS. Indians Said to Have Derailed Train and Then Compelled Survivors to Enter Car Containing Hay, Which Was Set on Fire. , San Diego. Eighty passengers of a Southern Pacific Mexican train were thrown into a car containing hay and the car was set on fire by a band of Yaqui Indian deserters Friday near Torres, Sonora, according to radio advices ad-vices received here Sunday from Her-mosillo Her-mosillo via Guaymas. Only twenty passengers have been accounted for thus far, the others having hav-ing been burned to death. The Indians, according to the report re-port received, numbered about sixty and were deserters from the army. They first derailed the train running from Campo Verde to Torres, aftei which they placed all of the passengers, passen-gers, numbering eighty, most of whom were women . and children, in a cai containing hay and applied the torch. Torres is a small town on the South ern Pacific railroad about seventj miles north of Guaymas and a junction junc-tion point of the road, a spur line run ning into the mining district, where Camp Verde is located.