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Show UTAHN TORTURED BY YAQU1S. Resident of Richfield One of Party of Americans Foully Murdered. Salt Lake City. It has been learned that Lee Rasinussen, 22 years of age, of Richfield, Utah, w-as one of the party of five Americans captured and tortured tor-tured to death by Yaqui Indians at Esperanza, seventy miles south of Guaymas, Sonora, on Thursday, December De-cember 6. According to the most recent and dependable reports of the massacre, which included five Americans, one German and three Chinese known to be killed, and forty Germans missing, Rasmussen put up a determined fight to the last. The attack, however, was a surprise, the Indians creeping slow-Jy slow-Jy upon their victims under cover of darkness. |