Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-30
The % Negro Troopers
Held by Carranza After
Fight on Home Soil.
MORMON SCOUT ALSO
WITH SURVIVORS
Captain Lewis Morley Who
Led in Carrizal Battle
at Fort Bliss.

III PASO, June 29.-The twenty
cavalry who at Carrizal, villa Ahum-
ada, chihuahua City and Juarez have
been central figures in the most
striking and potential chapter of the
Mexican situation are once more
safely out of Mexico
Survivors OF a bloody engagement
with vastly superior force-twice
victims of mobs that stoned them;
more than once gripped with the fear
OF execution for their part in the
Boyd expedition. and lastly objects of
intercession by the president Of the
United states, they were brought to
the border frCm Chihuahua City on
special train today and turned over
to General George Bell jr.. COM
mander of the FL Paso base,
Spillsbury Along.
With them came Lem II. Spills
bury, the Mormon scout who guided
Captain Charles r. Boyd ana his lit
tie command ever the trail that led
to the Carrizal encounter.
Spillsbury spent the night at the
home Of his brother here. The troop
ers were quertered at Fort Bliss
bNhiNibS llDii O. ''i'
ton at San Antonio.
Two stories widely diverging were
brought back from their captivity by
the prisoners one, told by Spills
bury, upholds statements no was
credited with making at chihuahua
city charging Captain Boyd with
"bull- headedness" in advancing in the
face of certain Mexican attack The
other, narrated by fighting men of
the Tenth, declares the MeNicans to
have been the aggrossOrs.
The latter account is embcllished
with charges hitherto not brought to
light. Pirate William ID. Gibson de-
clared he was cetrain that after the
Americans had quit the fold of the
Carrizal fight Mexicans went over and
killed several Americans who were
wounded but still alive.
Glbson's assertion was corroborated
by Privates Archie Jones and Luther
Alexander.
Robbed After Capture.
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 today
took rank in the annals OF Eel Paso
anu Will lllt lt'NAN NlolN Va
Generals Scott and Obregon. Thou
sands gathered in both cities to wit
ness the event.
In Juarez n big crowd at tho MeXi-
can Central railroad station viewed
with curiosity the disembarking Of the
prisoners from their special train, but
gave no outward evidence of enmity.
Now and then during the march to
the international bridge there were
scattering jeers. but in the main the
Mexican population acted with re-
serve.
once the crowd in Juarez acted
with genuine good humor. That was
when the troopers descended from
the train. Stripped of their uniforms
after the battle of Carrizal and with
restoration only partly made, the
dusky soldiers were decked out in
striking and motley garb. Their ap-
pearance brought forth a chorus of
laughter.
Roar of Cheers.
When the formalities of the transfer
had been ended and the Americans
marched off the international bridge
to El Paso they were greeted by a
vast roar of cheers from the thou
sands gathered there. Howere. the
authorities soon stopped the demon
stration, to the great disappointment
Of the participants who had stood
guard from sunup until 3 o'clock in
the afternoon to welcome the troopers.
one of the features of the s1ays
developments was the arrival hse of
Capt Lewis $. Morey for treatment at
the Fort Bliss hospital of the wound
he received at Carrizal. Tonight he
arranged to visit the dusky soldiers at
Fort Bliss. Fifteen Of them, the men
of X troop are under his command.