The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-24
Of Entire Troop. Variously
Estimated at 90 to 100, But
"a Accounted For
MOMENTARILY EXPECT
ANOTHER CLASH
General Bell Ready to Take
Juarez and Warns Conn
mander He Will Do So If
Shipping Is Persisted In
ny JOSEPH TIMMONs.


San Antonio, Tex June a.
Only seven survivors of the Meai-
can treachery at Carrizal have
struggled hack to Pershing's col
umn.
81 fear that these seven enlisted
mea are the emily survivors of the
fight" said General Funston to-
might after receiving an additional
report from General Pershinx.
mounted charge of Mexfcans,
In force on the flank of the trapped
Americans they were throwing
themselves from their horses to
answer with their carbines the ma
chine gun fire from front and the
other hank--thfs In the sensa tlonal
new feature of the battle told by
the troopers who got back to the
main column toy.
In the midst of the witherfnx
blast of the machine guns and the
Wild swoop of the charging, Yell
ing Mexican cavalry, the horses
of the Americans stampeded and
the dismounted troopers were left
Fighting for their lives. They faced
now the horsemen Of the enemy.
now the lines of infantry ms the
cavalry swung aside and again the
whenever field of fire was
cleaned for them.
Nothing Yet From Rescurers.
Nothing has been heard by Perish.
ing yet from the two squadrons OF
the Eleventh Cavalry. which he sent
to the rescue of the smitten troops.
In some sources II is suggested that
these eight troops finding none but
dead have ridden on into contact with
the army that Gomez commanded be-
fore he paid with his life the penalty
of his treachery.
However, Pershinc apparently does
not think so, or at any rate IL he
has sent a supporting column after
the two squadrons he has not re-
ported that fact to Funston.
General Funston accounts for the
long silence of the relief squadrons
by the assumption that they are scour-
ing the plains an dhills and anyone
west of the Carrizal field in search Of
or that having satisfied
themselves that they have found all
who escaped death or capture they
are returning slowly of necessity with
the dead and wounded
Hope Wounded Have Been Found.
Wounded men in considerable num-
tNir 1NiiSi ai It iilSNtH nopSS. may nave
been picked up by the squadrons But
even that is but a faint hope in the
mind of the General With the Ameri-
can horses running wild over the
hills the troopers had little chance TO
escape the deluge of the enemy num-
bers
Wounded men, In particular, must
have had infinitely small chance to
hide in the scant brush of the plain
and escape the Mexicans after tho
troopers lines were broken and flung
aside.
There were ss enlisted men and
officers that rode with Captain Boyd
and Captain Morey In their scouting
trip to discover the strength Of the
Mexican army moving towards the
flank of Pershing's column. OF these
tho Mexicans originally reported they
had captured seventeen. Tonight the
news comes from Chihuahua that Z
more negro troopers have been cap
tured by our forces, the Carranzistas.
Seven have won their difficult way
back to Pershing's line. That ac-
counts for thirty-one surviving Of the
The fate of sixty five II
still unknown.
forty Americans had been killed.
Later their claim was reduced to
twelve killed.
While the second day of silence on
the part of the relief squadron has
been eart-breaking, increasing the
apprehension that the two troops had
been annihllated. an officer at head.
quarters points out tonight that 70.
port from the relief expedition, even
by courier, was not to have been AZ
pected as early as this. Tho sQuads
rons left yesterday morning. aftsP
cershin~ had his first news from Gen.
eral .--..s.on that the fight had oc-
They had about seventy i've
miles to ride and even with the hard
est sort of riding they could not have
reached the scene OF fight and gotten
a courier back over the seventy I'VE
miles by this time