The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-04-12
To His Home Paper About
Fierce Fight
ON MEXICAN BORDER SATURDAY
Newspaper Mans Thrilling
Experience-IS Noted for
Daring FeatS.
THE BRAVE GENERAL is DEAD

Calexico, CAL, April 8, 1911.-
Louisville Herald, Louisville, KY
To-day has been an awful day.
Fighting seven hours. Seventy men
against six hundred. They lost one
hundred. Only twenty of us escap-
ed. Gen. Stanley Williams shot Ave
times and dying. Am o, X. l hope
this gets through. BUNNY.
$3.50 a. m. April 8.
A Sketch OF Bunny"
Concerning the above. the Louis
Vile Herald says;
That's all! ..---.
Briefly, the story of the fierce
battle waged on the Mexican regu-
lars in Mexicali, Mex, by American
insurrectos, under the leadership of
Gen. Stanley Williams, is told in the
above night letter from T. Alvin
Burning, formerly a reporter for
the Herald, now a soldier of for
tune.
Containing plain facts, the mes
sage, following in the wake OF news
dispatches relating the onslaught
and repulse of a handful of Ameri-
cans, graphically describes the
skirmish, the slaughter and the ul-
innate retreat of the insurrectos,
fighting bravely for each step OF
lost ground. More than this, the
telegram reveals the whereabouts OF
Bunny" Burning, often called
Dare Devil Burning" who left
Louisville the latter part OF last
year in order to accept a position in
Spokane, Wash.
It was startling news that was
flashed over the wires.
Instead of on the firing line, amid
the smoke of battle and the boom
ing of cannon, it was thought gen.
orally that Burning was covering
assignments for some newspaper In
Washington, or was roaming one OF
the sun-kissed Western States in
search of rest and fortune. Few
dreamed he had Joined the ranks
of the rebels, had taken up their
cause against Diaz and his regulars
and was jeopardizing his life for the
sake of adventure.
Everybody in Louisville knows
"Dare Devil Burning" Incidental
". all are acquainted with his reck-
less spirit. his daring, his manner
of welcoming immediate danger,
smiling into the grim jaws of death.
Between the lines of his telegram
can be discerned a martial spirit
aroused and flaming despite the re-
nulse Of Gen. Williams band. Al
ter fighting seven hours, in the hope
that their handful Of men would
he able to route the enemy, six hun
dred strong, he and nineteen others
had been driven across the Mexican
border into California, leaving be-
hind them trail of blood and the
bodies of fifty brave and adventur-
Gus Americans.
With the heat of battle hardly
over. Bunny remembered his
friends- in Louisville and tersefy
wired them that he had fought and
lost, but was safe.
"Only twenty escaped-Am o.
X"
These we're the reassuring words
he sent.
burning won his title Of Dare
Devil" shortly after he entered the
newspaper game in Louisville. A
reporter for an afternoon paper, he
soon distinguished himself by going
after fire stories at the risk of his
life. He gained recognition as the
Fire Reporter" Whenever an
alarm was sounded he was one OF
the first to arrive at the scene of the
blaze, for always he made the trip
in the fire chiefs auto.
In December, 1909, he was badly
injured when the fire auto skidded
at Ninth and Jefferson streets and
overturned, pinning burning be-
meath it. Fire Chief Dillon was
killed.
Upon recovery. Bunny" resumed
his work as newspaper man. Then
he journeyed to Texas, where he