The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1916-07-07
CARRIzAL PRISONERS
TURNED over TO U. S.
PRISONERS DIsEMBARK FROM
TRAIN AMID CHEERS, LOOK
ING WORSE FOR WEAR.
TROOP TRAINS ARRIVE DAILY
Troop Movement to the Border Is On
in Earnest and Trains Arrive
Daily With Soldiers and
Equipment.

Ell Paso, Textile twenty-three ne
gro troopers Of the Tenth Cavalry who,
at Carrizal, Villa Ahumada, Chihuahua
City and Juarez have been the central
figures in the most striking and po-
tential chapter of the Mexican situa-
ton, are once more safely out of Mex
ico
Survivors of a bloody engagement
With vastly superior force; twice
victims of mobs that stoned them;
more than once gripped with the fear
a execution for their part in the Boyd
expedition, and lastly objects OF in
tercession by the president of the Unit
ed States, they we're brought to the
border from Chihuahua City on spe.
cial train Thursday and turned over
to Brigadier General George Bell, Jr.,
commander of the Ell Paso base.
with them came Lem H. Spillsbury,
the Mormon scout, who guided Captain
Charles T. Boyd and his little com
mand over the trial that led to the Car
rial encounter,
Two stories widely diverging were
brought back from their captivity by
the prisoners. One, told by Salisbury,
upholds statements he was credited
with making at Chihuahua City, charg'
ing Captain Boyd with "bullheaded.
ness" in advancing in the face Of
certain Mexican attack. The other,
narrated by fighting men Of the Tenth,
declares the Mexicans to have been
the aggressOrs.
The latter account is embellished
with charges hitherto not brought to
light. Private William D. Gibson de-
clared he was certain that after the
Americans had quit the field of the
Carrizal fight Mexicans went over and
killed several Americans who were
wounded but still alive.
Gibsons assertion was corroborated
by Privates Archie Jones and Luther
Alexander.
Numerous others of the troopers
claimed they had been robbed Of
money and valuables following their
capture.
The arrival of Spillsbury and the
negro troopers at the border took rank
In the annals of FL Paso and Juarez
with the recent visits of General Scott
and Obregon. Thousands gathered in
both cities to witness the event.
When the formalities of the transfer
had been ended and the Americans
marched off the international bridge
10 Ell Paso they were greeted by a vast
roar of cheers from the thousands
gathered there. However, the authori-
ties soon stopped the demonstration,
10 the great disappointment of the par
Elephants, who had stood guard from
sun up until o'clock in the afternoon
10 welcome the return of the troopers.
The troopers turned over to General
Bell are:
Troop K-Fred Williams, st. Louis;
R. L. Floyd, Oklahoma City; Sergeant
Allen Peterson, Meridian, Miss; Joe
Oliver, Brighton, Ala; George Stone,
Talladega, Ala; First Sergeant Felix
Page, Washington, D. c.; Will Harris,
Atlanta, Ca; Samuel Macdonald, Por.
tersVille, Tenn; William Gibbons,
Chattanooga, Tenn; Archie Jones,
Washington, d. c.; D. ]. Edward,
Chattanooga, Tenn; James M. Stokes,
Atlanta; Harvey NJ Lee, Columbus,
Ohio; lisa Graham, Smith Grove,
Tenn; Charles Marshall, Pasadena,
CAL
Troop C-Luther Alexander, Column.
bia, Tenn; William Hogue, Raleigh,
N. c.; William d. Gibson, New York
Thomas G. Stricken, Louisville, KY;
Trannie G. Hopping, Atlanta; John
Wilson, Macon, Ca; John Coleman,
Jr, Walker Valley, Miss; George NJ,
Hoppins, Morristown, Pa.
Luther Alexander and Archie Jones
are suffering from wounds.
Delivery Thursday by General Car
rama Of the American prisoners taken
at Carrizal has averted the probability
OF immediate retaliatory steps. It is
probable that it has also helped to
pave the way toward an attempt al
peaceful settlement of the whole Dor
der situation.
High officials made 1t very clear,
however, that the vital point at issue
the future attitude of the Mexican |
forces toward American troops in
Northern Mexico engaged in guarding
the border and pursuing bandits who
raided American territory-remains tc
be settled.
The state department has no advices
rs to when diplomatic reply to its
demands might be expected. The Car
rama government has adopted the IN
usual course of complying in fact with
an urgent demand from foreign gov
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