Arizona republican., 1916-07-03
Republican A. p. Leased wirel

IhOPNHHSat - @SoSSH FhGl
Ell PASO, July Another survivor
of the Carrizal fight was located today.
He is Corporal F. X. Coone, of X.
Troop, Tenth cavalry, who was brought
into Juarez this afternoon from Villa
Ahumada and placed in prison.
General Francisco Gonzales. Juarez
commander, wired to General Jacinto
/ Trevino at Chihuahua for instructions
/ and it is probable Cooke will be turned
/ over to the American authorities to-
morrow
Corporal Cooke. in addition to telling
a thrilling story of his adventures
since the battle with the Mexicans un-
der General Gomez, adds his statement
to that of other survivors that the
Mexicans fired the first shots of the
engagement.
He also quotes Captain Boyd as say
ing just before the commander gave
orders to his men to advance:
THE genepl has given orders that
there is only one way for US to go and
that is TO the north My orders are to
go TO Villa Ahumada. to the east, and
/ am going there"
In previous stories Captain Boyds
mission has been explained to have
been the recovery of a deserter at Villa
Ahumada.
Captain Boyd also, Cooke said, eau
toned them against firing first and
against letting any piece go off acci-
dentally, under heavy punishment
After escaping from the fight at Car
rizal, Cooke wandered foodless with a
broken right arm for four days, lived
several more on the hospitality of Mex
lean ranchers. and then pushed out
= alone for the American base, only 10
he captured at a water hole He was
brought into villa Ahumada yesterday
afternoon and put on train in the
evening for Juarez.
! Despite his American uniform and
bandaged arm. his presence excited nc
hostile demonstrations in Villa Ahu-
= mada and not even curiosity in Juarez
Mexican officials said Cooke confirmed
= this statement.
: II was shot down in the very begin.
. ming of the fight said Corporal Cooke
r II crawled back, with my arm dragging
to ditch and crawled down it. Their,
. | met Corporal Queen. The corpora
"a undid his emergency bandage an,
e bound up my arm. L then went bacl
to where the horse holders had been
and couldn't see anybody SO | strucl
$ out for the place where we had campeC
Z the night before. | didn't then evei
! know the place of the fight was name,
2 Carrizal. And saw only five men win,
II had been shot down, but some on
Q said Captain Boyd was killed. TIL
d number killed and captured is sure
G surprise to me.
II reached our old camping groun
- about 2:30 in the afternoon, and stuc
: around there until eight at night, ex
nj pecting my command to assemble ther,
No sir, | didn't intend to surrender.
e intended to get back to our base a
v FREDERICK
Is, For four days ! wandered arount
st trying to work my way back the wa
we came. But | got off on the wron
3 trail. | didn't get a bite to eat thes
days and had hard work finding waite
a; OF course. | did my travelling at nigh
10 and hid in the mesquite in the da,
ID There were plenty of coyotes howlin
around at night, but l never saw eve
no a single rattleSnake in the day time.
\ AS | didn't know any Spanish. | fe
r, kind of leary about showing mysel
,n But got so weak with my arm swollt
~ up, loss of blood and no food. tn;
- finally while l was looking for waite
r. | saw "a Mexican at a well waterir
= mules, and believe me, he looked GOO
even if he was a Mexican.
"On my wanderings, l had picked l
a Mexican clay water bottle, and Il
first thing l did at the well was
drink that bottle full six times. VIII,
the Mexican got over his astonishmer
Continued on Page Two)