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shing on the attack by Mexicans to-day. A courier would
have TO cover the seventy miles from the point of attack to
Pershings main lines with the news of the ambush before
Gen. Pershing could report to Gen. Funston.
1t is not known at headquarters here whether the forty
killed and seventeen taken prisoners was the entire detach-
ment of American troops. If it was there may not have been
q courier to despatch with the news. Neither is it known
here whether all of the detachment was negro troopers of
the Tenth Cavalry. but it is presumed they were.
The officers of the Tenth Cavalry arc Col. w. c. Brown.
Lieut-Co De Rosey c. CabelL. Major Elwood ". Evans, Major
Charles Young, Major Robert Fleming. and Capts. Rutherford.
Cavenaugh, Pritchard. Boyd. Remington and Valentine.
Mexican Consul Andreas Garcia said this afternoon that
all he had was a report of fighting without specific Informal
ton. At 7 o'clock to night he said positively that the Ameri.
can command that took part in the fight was part of the Tenth
Cavalry.
Gen. Felix Gomez. one of the first to be killed in the fight
at Carrizal. was the one who gave the signal for the Mexican
machine gun to open fire. according to later advces received
here regarding the encounter. The Mexican and American
forces confronted each other while pareying between the COM
manders took place under IA flag of truce.
The American troopers were out in the open and in plain
view of the Meixcans, who were concealed in the underbrush
According to Mexican information the Americans suddenly
made a movement which alarmed the MeXicans and some e-I
citement ensued. The MeXicans alegc that the cavalrymen
suddenly spread out while the parley Mas in progress as
though to enveop the Mexican commander.
Troopers Shoot Gen. Gomez Quickly.
Gen. Gomez was seen to wave back at his forces and the
battle opened. Several negro troopers then dashed directly at
Gen. Gomez and a pistol encounter occurred in the centre of the
field with both sides looking on. Gen. Gomez was shot through
the head by a trooper. The Mexican machine gun began to
play havoc in the ranks of the Americans and dozens of saddles
were emptied in the twinking Of an eye.
Whether the fight ended as a victory for the Americans
or the Mexicans is not known. as the American story has not
been told. Mexcans at Villa Ahunada who talked to the pas
senger on a train which arrived at Juarez from Chihuahua this
afternoon claimed the victory.
A Mexican passenger arriving on the refugee train said
he saw a number of captured negro cavarymen all herded IN
one cattle car at Villa Ahumada and it was the plan of the
Mexicans to take them Immediately southwark.
I'VE will take them down the line and hang Them said
a Carranzista Captain in hearing of some of the passengers
on the train.
The first report of the engagement received at Juarez
requested that immediate preparations be made to care for
Mexican wounded in that city. The message was delayed in
transmission and reached Juarez only a few minutes before
the arrival of the refugee train. 1t did not say how many
were wounded.
Carranza and Men Wildly Excited.
This afternoon the saloons of Juarez were thrown open
and Mexican soldiers We're seen drinking heavily. Civilians
between the ages Of Is and 45 years of age were being armed.
The Carranza forces in Juarez were wildly excited.
Evacuation of Juarez by civilians was apparently under
way at 6 80 o'clock this evening.
The populace were leaving by any conveyance availa-
bic, some by train and hundreds in wagons and on horses.
taking their light belongings with them. They tocked toward
the south. Armed civil guards patrolled the streets and the
regular main military forces seemed preparing either to
evacuate or defend their town from an attack from the north.
Mules We're loaded in The streets with machine guns and
equipment.
This afternoon. following the news of the fight at Carrizal.
the Carranza garrison at CasaS Grandes. which is near one of
Gen. Pershing's bases. evacuated the town and moved south to
MADEIRA. The Pershing forces in that region outnumber the Car
ranzistas. Orders for the evacuation were telegraphed from
Juarez to the commander at Casas G'randes.
The telegraph operator on the Mexican wire in Juarez
tonight received an eyewitness account Of the Carrizal fight
from a military telegrapher who watched the fighting and
who left Carrizal in the midst of the engagement and is now
operating a key at Villa Ahumada. His story as told by the
Juarez operator is as follows:
"Gen. Felix Gomez and a large portion of his brigade
have been occupying Carrizal for some days. The troops
have been quartered on their trains, which were on sidings
on the railroad track some distance from the old town.
1.-The Mexican soldiers were cavalrymen. The horses were
in corrals on the east side of the trains.
Early this morning Il small number of American cavalry
men appeared on the hills west of town. They made IA survey
of the town and then spread out and rode toward the adobe
barriers on the outskirts.
"Mexican outposts which had reported the appearance of
the Americans were withdrawn to the barrios. where they
concealed themselves.