Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-04
.DOdd' Battle With
 ViIIista Bandits
7rH CAVALRY FOUGHT WITH
 BANDITS ON THREE SIDES
TOWERING MOUNTAINS
Some of the Americans Went Up the MountaInsEde With Knives In Their Teeth During the Fight.

Field Headquarters, April go, by Motor Courier to Columbus, N. M., May S.-There was man-to-nan fight ing and some of the Americans went up the nountainside with knives in their teeth during Colonel George A. Dodd's battle with Villista bandits on April 22 at Temoctic.
 Tt was the devils own playground" :" was Colonel Dodd's description of the terrain of this battle in southwest Chthuahua among towering mountains where 150 bandits sought refuge.
 Bullet Puffs Tn Dust ae They Charged
 For two hours Doad's troops of the Seventh Cavalry fought from an i'm mense hollow with bandits on three sides, charging deliberately over ground marked with bullet puffs in the dust all about their feet, where the Mexicans had their exact range. They accounted for at least fifty bandits killed or wounded, against an Ameri- can loss of two dead and three wound- ed. One Mexican woman was wound ed by bandits.
 Field Headquarters April 2s.-(By Motor Courier to Columbus, N. M., May 4) Two nights before this tght the Americans overlook the bandits at the Youquiyo mine, where they were lying about campfires, telling the na- ttves stories of how they claimed to have whipped the Americans at Co., lunbus and at Guerrero. They show ed big Jumps of gold and silver taken from Mexican towns. which they as- serted were spells of war.
 Bandits Fled.
 Shortly before midnight an outpost ran in breathless. excIaiming:
 'eThe Americans are coming in.''
 Scores of dark forms leaped through | f7a 1cr7a 11sa1-v s~. | minutes the whole bandit command l had ga1loped out of town. When the caYalrymen came in they found two American mining men. a Mir. Seyforth and another who had paid s2,e00 ran som to the bandits
 These Americans said the bandits were learned by Candelero Cervantes, Jesus Del Rips, Cruz Dominguez and Manuel Baca, who was killed bp a Mexican the following Sunday after the fight.
 Among them were followers of Julio Acosta and General BeItran. They were remnants Of all the best known | Villa commanders, veterans and at | time, at least, the last bands of ViI- las men, whose nerve had been shaken by defeats at Columbus, Guerrero and Aguas Caiientes.
 Advanced on Foot.
 Saturday afternoon at 4.so, Dodd's | 1I1GI1, 2I11V1nEg al the southern rim O1 the hills forming the cup in which the town lies, saw the rear guard of ban dits running out of town. Ahead of them they saw the main body waiting behind rocks to give battle. A ma Echine gun was placed to sweep this ridge while the Americans rode down into the cup in pursuit. They dis mounted in town, advancing on foot with rifles ready, led by troop l. and accompanied by the two guides.
 Trooper MortaIty Wounded.
 While still in town, a trooper wal hit and mortally wounded The bullet came from the flank from cave in 2 mountain overlooking Tenochic. Ou
 of a big adobe chimney the troop, pulled a sniper, the only one caugh
 in the place.
 Beyond the town Troop L advanced to within range of the crests above rushes, lying down and firing, the1 advancing . few pards.
 Rode Through Zone of Fire. Colonel Dodd, with his staff, rod
 through this zone of fire, while bul
 lets fell within a yard or two of ever. man until they reached a small knol beyond the town. From here Dodd di rected the fight Another machine gul was brought up close to play on tn force at the crest in front of the knoll Out along the American line a troope was lying on his stomach firing. Hi ' comrades saw a bullet strike forty fee in front of him, then another poppe
 twenty feet ahead of him. Tn mo ment more a third ball struck him ii the head killing him. lieutenant lying among his men, directing tn ] fire, was wounded.
 l Mexican Leader Seemed Bullet Proof
 Meanwhile the Americans had got
 ten the range of the Mexicans on tn
 crest and checked their fire. Severa
 freshly made graves on this crest . found next day, testified to the Amer
 jeans. aim. One Mexican leader on , gray horse rode into sight on the six
 line half a dozen times. but scene
 to be bullet proof His gray noun , was the last living object the Aneri 2 cans distinguished before darknes ended the fighting. This horse wa . found wounded next day at Santo To mas, where Manuel Baca, the Will leader, was killed by Leondro Alvarez , a Mexican pacifieist, for the price Q , twenty silver pesos Eabout ST Ameri : can money4. The Mexicans said tn horse was Baca's.