Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-06-30

FL Paso, Tex.-Official reports from
General Pershing include a graphic
story of the Carrizal fight told by one
of the survivors of the troops of the
Tenth cavalry, which was ambushed
by CarranZa troops. This survivor
declares that when the American col
umn reached CarriZal, Captain Boyd
search for bandits and that General
Felix Gomez sent back word, giving
permission to enter.
The troopers story of the subse-
quent events follows:
Gomez himself rode out to meet
Captain Boyd. Captain Boyd gave the
word for the column to advance. We
were just starting forward when we
noticed Mexican troops pouring out
from behind different kinds of shelter
adobe houses and the like-and de-
plOying to the right and left. 1t was
battle formation. From the first glance
we saw that they outnumbered us at
least five to one.
Captain Boyd noticed their move
ment. To any soldier that sort Of thing
can mean only that an attack is about
to be made. l saw Captain Boyd mo-
ton to the Mexicans and make some
remark about it to Gomez. Gomez
wheeled his mount around and sig
nailed with his hands. Then he made
q dash for his own lines.
AT the same time a couple of ma
chine guns. one at each end Of the
Mexican line, opened up on US. We
were caught in our saddles in easy
range, and we were good targets. |
saw Captain Boyd fall. A moment
later Captain Morey was wounded in
the shoulder.
Lieutenant Adair gave us the order
TO dismOunt. We got out of our sad
dies in hurry. Then he told US to
throw ourselves on our faces and re-
turn the fire. Someone got Gomez just
as he was reaching his line. The next
minute Lieutenant Adair was hit,
Both he and Captain Boyd are dead, |
believe.
Horses Going Down.
! could hear the bullets whizzihg over
US. Because of Lieutenant Adair's or
der we saved a lot of men. But the
horses did not have the same luck. The
bullets started to hit them, and they
were going down as if their legs were
suddenly cut out from under them.
1.-THE others, stung by the bullets and
kicked by the dying horses, began to
rear and plunge. The men in charge
tried their best to hold them but they
broke away. Some of the men were
killed trying to save their mounts.
'"When the horses got away we were
marOoned. We fought back and pre-
vented the Mexicans from advancing
in spite of their advantage in numbers
and the machine guns. We began to
fall back toward the hills as we'll as
we could.
1--WE recovered four horses and then
the four of us were sent here to re-
port. We left the rest of the troops In
the hills. The retreat was slow because
of the wounded. The Mexicans kept
firing, but were kept away by the &C
curate rife fire of our men,"
Morey, Hero of carrizaI.
San Antonio. Textile story of
how Capt. Lewis S. Morey, commander
of Troop X. Tenth cavalry, severely
wounded In the Carrizal battle be-
tween American troopers and Car
rama soldiers. escaped with four of
his troopers and later forced his men
TO abandon him on the desert in order
that they might save themselves and
carry his report of the fight to Gen
eral Pershing is told in official dis
patches received at army headquarters
here. The cold official reports add
another story of herOism to the many
that have come from the scene of the
unequal battle In the Mexican desert
Later dispatches showed that Cap
tain Morey also managed later to re-
turn TO the American lines and is safe
After the tide of battle had turned
against the little American force
which was overwhelmingly outnum
bered by the Mexican soldiers, Cap
tain Morey with the three unwoundeC
and one wounded men were together
The five men realized further fightins
would be in vain and took refuge in
hole 1000 yards fromethe scene of the
battle. There. while the Mexican.
hunted for the American survivors
Captain Morey wrote his report of tn,
fight. This was 9:15 o'clock on tn,
morning of the fight.
Carry Captain.
The commander was too weak, as {
result of loss of blood and the effec
of heat and thirst. TO walk. but the
three faithful negro soldiers picked
him up and took turns in carrying hin
on their backs.
The troopers also became weakened
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