El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-06-27
GIVES GRAPHIC
BATTLE STORY.
Capt. Lewis S. Morey Tells
How He Escaped Death in
Carrizal Attack.
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troop. under Capt Boyd and Lieut.
Aaair. only TO the fringe OF the brush
into which the men and horses dfsap-
peared.
.TrOOpmen tell me" Capt. AIorev
went on. that Lieut.. Adair died in an
irrigation ditch. his head held above wa
ter by q noncommissioned officer There
was much water IN the ditch and Adair
would have pitched face forward into il.
without support / unders and the non
commissioned officer left Adair wound
ed in the ditch at Adair's order and
went forward towards CarrizaI Then.
looking back. ne saw his officer with
eve glazed and head webbing against
the ditch side and ran back and re-
manned with him until death. capt.
Boyd was killed when the troop made
rush FOR the trench wherein the Car
ranzistas had machine guns. lust how
he died I do not know"
Make Desperate Fight.
'Caught IN right az gle OF fire.
Capt AoreY,s small detachment was
forced TO retire. Mounts had been sent
to the rear, and every mani including
the leader, was afoot Alternately w
ing flat on their bellies. then rising
and fighting desperately in a rear ma
neuvered action, the little band with
drew till capt MOrey and one Of the
cOrporals wearing Capt Boyd's hat
with Mercy bleeding a che shoulder
found himself with seven men behind
an adobe wall and near a dry hole
not from the sun
Three hundred yards 10 the south
were the Carranzistas, some mounted
some afoot advancing. firing, yelling.
embOldened by the American retire.
ment When I got behind that wall"
resumed Capt MOrey, in q matter or
fact way, 4 told the men 1 prOpOsed
to stay there. Those wEo wished no
90 could do So Four men, including
one wounded. elected TO make Z try for
escape, and Capt MOrey tells how he
saw them ascend a hill which stretched
away to the north
I never saw men act so strangely"
said Capt Mercy, they didn't run or
seem 10 exert themselves. They simply
moved away as II daZed. uphill and by
50 doing probably saved us. We who
remained behind. all noticed the Car
rama hOrSemen riding 10 OutfIank them
II was apparent the Car-anzistas had
seen some OF us take refuge behind the
wall and noting four trying to escape
unnOticed-"
with the enemy beating the country
on all sides, Capt Morev and three
blacktroopers. lay in the hole or behind
the wall all that longest day. waterIess
Night came and with IL drop in tenn
perature. and the wounded officer and
men started trailing west in the first
Islay OF a ~ mile journey Capt Mercy
was so weak he could walk only a hun
ored yards or so at stretch and as
night wore on, he concluded it humane
" impossible for him to 20 farther. so [
ne FIRST requested. and when they re-
FUSED. ordered the three negroes TO I
leave him
Orders Men TO Go.
I reasoned" he said today that /
they could 20 on and 1 couldn't. so I j
made them 90"
The three went and 3forey. with his
wounI bandaged the best he couId is,-
down IN the desert and fell asIeep. The
stars were still out but dawn was
touching the sky. when he awoIle
'trensthened by his sleep He forced !
llnlsei 70 MS feet and staggered on in
he direction in which he tbouabt Law
santo Domingo ranch. eight miles from
'arrizal, and the point where the COM 4