The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-07-22


"On fame's eternal camping ground,
Their silent tents are spread;
And Glory guards with solemn round,
The brave bivouac of the dead"
The six unidentified and unclaimed
bodies of the black troopers killed In
the Mexican ambuscade at Carrizal,
were buried with full military honors
on Friday morning.
The ceremonies over the black heroes
were given a national character from
the fact that all orders relating to
the funeral were issued by the
War Office, the escort, a troop of
the second cavalry, section of bat
terry A, field artillery of the Federal
City Brigade and the engineer band
having been ordered out by that de-
partment. Hon. Newton D. Baker,
Secretary of War and Maj. General
Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff of the
Army were present in person and Presi-
dent Wilson sent a wreath of flowers
for each grave from the White House
conservatory.
Long before eight O'Clock, the hour
set for the start from the Union Sta
ton where the bodies had arrived over
night, the plaza was crowded by hun
dreds of people of all races and classes
to do honor to the brave. Promptly
on the hour, and with military preci-
sion and order, the detail of the second
cavalry bore upon their shoulders the
bodies of their fellow troopers and
gently placed them upon the cais-
sons of the battery. Each coffin was
draped with the American flag under
which they had fought and for whose
principles and for love of the country
for which it stands had given up their
lives, willing sacrifice greater
love than which," no man hath.
John R. Hawkins, financial secre-
tary of the A. M. E. Church placed a
wreath on each for the committee of
Colored citizens and the cortege moved.
The procession was led by the troop
of the second cavalry and the field
battery bearing the bodies followed by
the Spanish War Veterans led by Hon.
L. G. Dyer, Commander in Chief and
member of Congress from st. Louis,
Mo. Other members of Congress fol-
lowing were: William S. Howard of
Georgia, Richard A. Austin and Samuel
R. Sells of Tenn, George A. Loud and
W. F. James of Mich, G. T. delivering
of Kansas, Henry Bruckner of New
York, Sydney Anderson of Mimi, and
J. M. McGuilcuddy of Maine, M. FL.
Nealy of West Va, Claudius w. Stone
of Ill, and Gail Van Dyke of MINI.
Among the prominent citizens of
Washington, marshalled by John r.
Hawkins, Chairman of the Citizen s
Committee were Mr.. Justice Robert
H. Terrell, Hon. John G. Dancy, Col
Henry Lincoln johnson, George w
Cook, Secretary of Howard University
Reverends J. Milton Waldron, Simon P,
w. Drew, w. H. Jernigan, Alex Will
banks, Drs. Charles 1. West, E. D. Viii
liston, William H. Wilson, William A
Warfeld, surgeon in chief of Freed
mems Hospital, Creed w. Childs, Mr.
James Howard, U. S. Deputy Marshal
Mr.. L. Melendez King, Mr.. Almond w
Scott, representing the Colored Elks OF
the World, Mr.. w. II. McKinlay, Mr.
James A. Cobb, DR.. A. M. Curtis, DR.
Arthur L. Curtis, Mrs. Julia Mason
Layton and Mrs. Anna Jordan Collier
of The Women s Relief Corps, G. A. R
and Miss Ida C. Plummer.
From the Peace Monument at the
foot of the Capitol to Fourteenth stree
where the procession turned south tt
the highway bridge, the curb of Penn
sylvania was lined with thousands Of
spectators who barred their heads as thu
caissons passed giving signs of thai
reverence for the sacred dead which
seeks expression in no other way thar
by the perfect silence of veneration.
Arrived at the National Cemetery
the throng which had journeyed on foo
and in conveyances massed itself IL
two lines at the approach to the ope1
graves. The band broke the solemn
stiffness with the strains of "Lea(
Kindly Light" and across the opeI
space, threading their way between thu
marbles of those who had gone before
the white troopers bore upon thei
broad shoulders the bodies of theil
black comrades and tenderly deposited
them, each over his own grave-th'
tent whose flap e'er swings outward
The bodies placed, the troopers line'
in front of the people. Every head wa
barred as Chaplain G. Livingstone Bay
ard of the U. S. Navy stepping from
the side of the War Secretary and tn,
Chief of Staff, advanced to the center