Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — BLOODY FIGHT WITH INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

BLOODY FIGHT WITH INDIANS.

A Number of Mexican Soldiers and Yaquis Killed in a Battle. An authentic report lias reached Phoenix, A.’T., that the Mexican soldiers under Lieutenant Montana, of the First Sona Military, had met the renegade Yaquis well up the Yaqui River and had had a hard fight with them, in which a number of both soldiers and Indians were killed. Later the absolute truth of the report was determined by dispatches to prominent Sonorans in P.hqpnix. The soldiers, 20J strong, met the Indians in a defile of the Sunis Blaneos. There were a large number of the Indains, though just how many could not be determined. The engagement lasted eight hours, when the Indians dispersed through the mountains, leaving the sold.ers masters of the situation. This is the way the Yaquis fight, and it makes them a formidable adversary. They will rise up in large numbers, and when closely pressed every one become his own commander and takes to the brush. They are brave, too, and seldom refuse to fight the soldiers when equal in numbers. The fighting forces of Mexicans have sent for re-enforcement, when they will pursue the renegades lurther into mountains.