The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-08

of Mexicans at hand, they ran to an adobe hut, where the six other cavalry men were preparing to make their de- fense.
 The door of the house, which had only one window, was barred and Sergeant Smyth, seeing that his men were out numbered 10 to 1, gave orders to shoot carefully and not waste ammunition.
 ''We are up against it cold" said Smyth, but we will show them some- thing. Let the Mexicans shoot their heads off and run out of ammunition and maybe by morning we will be in a po- sition to give them a rum
 ONLY HALF CLOTHED
 On the dash from their tent Smyth and Croskem had lost their revolvers, having been forced to retreat to the adobe house half clothed because of the rapid approach of the Mexicans.
 The bandits poured a constant fusillade of shots at the window and door of the adobe house Not an American cavalry man fell in the exchange. The little band took turns shooting from the window. Bloodstains in the dry ground around the house were the only evidence that the bandits suffered in the attack, but Sergeant Smyth believes that seven or eight bandits were killed and some were wounded.
 For three hours the fight went on. Just a little while more, boys, and daylight will be with us, urged Smyth, who knew the bandits would retreat once they be- came good targets in the light of dawn.
 The MeXcans fought in slSirmish forma : ton. That was proof to Smyths eyes that he was dealing with military body. The attackers horses were placed some distance to the rear and the brigandS ...-. ~J- -.<l of the house from which there was no escape except the door and the single window.
 Unable to rout the Americans from their rnud-walled fort, the leader of the Mex ican band gave orders to throw fire balls on the roof. Flaring torches made of torn cloth and weeds were dropped upon the roof which started to burn. There was no water in the house to check the flames and the faces and backs of the soldiers, still firing spiritedy through the window, became blistered and burned.
 KILLED IN WINDOW z q can't stand it any longer,' cried Pri- vate William Cohen. "Tll take another shot and then try and make it through the window"
 Cohen leaped into the window frame to maiEe his dash for the open. A bullet split his skull and he fell back dead. Outside the voice of Mexican was heard to say: Line up on each side of the door. They must come out.
 Smyth told his men that the time had come to make dash.
 The heat had burned the tops of their heads. Private Stephen J. Colok stepped forward to the door and smashed the boards with his gunstock, the door gave way and Colok dashed out. His body was found next morning not far away, riddled with bullets.
 Smyth leading the other cavalrymen, turned to the left and made for the cor ral, the Mexicans firing at them as they fled. The body of Private Lawrence K. Rogers was found not far from the burned house, but Tyree could not be accounted for when Smyth and his men, who reached the hills in safety investigated next morning. Tyree may have been made prisoner, but if so the soldiers here think he has probably been killed by now.
 After the attack on the American troops the bandits rushed to the wax factory of w. K. Ellis and destroyed it, besides setting fire to the factory store. Ellis home was ransacked A cross that hung in one room is Believed to have saved the house from being burned.