Arizona republican., 1916-06-30

the center of the horseshoe Mexican Is machine gun poured 8 hail of bullets | at us, while from the point of the | curve on our left flank another was firing at us.''
 Spillsbury's description of the battle [ was practically the same as that pre- viously given out by other sources.
 The scout said that after the second [ conference he had urged Captain Boyd , not to advance in the face of the con- trary orders of the Mexican leaders i but was told that he should follow in struetions.
 z" Don't fire until you are fired upon, boys l heard Captain Boyd shout as he gave the order to advance over my earnest protest, he said.
 Salisbury said he was surrounded by large band of Mexicans who forced him to surrender and threatened to shoot him immediately.
 They said that 1 had fired the shots that killed their leader and they called me the 'tejano' and seemed to believe that 1 was Texas Mexican and con sequently, in their opinion, traitor to | Mexico" he continued.
 Until, with the other prisoners, my arms were bound and I was put in a stock car bound for Chihuahua City, I believed that I was to be executed. The soldiers also believed they were to be killed, but l assured them that they were not and as we got further into the interior our confidence began to crop back. But again at Chihuahua 1 City l was told that the governor of the state had ordered my execution and not until I had talk with General Trevino was l completely reassured."
 Salisbury and the prisoners all as- serted that they had received nothing but the most courteous treatment at the hands of the Mexican soldiery, pointing out that every effort was made to control the inflamed civil population of several towns who of fered them bodily harm. They were | stoned. they said, at Villa Ahumada, when they were put on the train.
 They were confined in individual cells in the Chihuahua penitentiary, ] Salisbury said, but throughout the days they were allowed the liberty of a small empatio, where they gathered | and talked over their chances for free | dom.
 At three o'clock in the afternoon, when the prisoners had eaten their fill, 1 Andres Garcia, Mexican consul in Fl | Paso telephoned General Bell. who was waiting at the Toltec club in Fl Paso 1 that the Mexican officials were ready to transfer their charges. General Bell ] and his aides proceeded to the Santa Fe | street international bridge, at about the | same time that the captives were marched out of the comandancia. 1 As the Americans and their guards, headed by General Gonzales, Consul Garcia and Manuel Prieto, mayor of ] Juarez, stepped upon the Mexican end of the bridge General Bell and his staff advanced toward them from the Ameri- can side
 Good afternoon, General asid Gen eral Gonzales.
 Good afternoon, gentlemen" replied I the American commander.
 Now if you will be so good as to have the men, whom 1 understand you have for me advance one at time, we can check them off" said General Bell.
 When the last name had been checked, General Bell signed receipt for the troopers and they were taken to the United States immigration
 building where they were bathed in
 vinegar, given clean new suits of blue
 overalls. loaded in motor ambulances
 and taken through a roaring line of
 cheering citizens several miles long,
 through the center of the city to Fort Bliss. The authorities, fearing to an- , tagonize Juarez people, put an end to
 the applause.
 , It was in the immigration station
 that the negro troopers told their stor. : ies of the Carrizal battle and theii l subsequent experiences at Villa Anu S mada, Chihuahua City and Juarez. : William D. Gibson. C. Troop. o . New York City; Archie Jones, K
 Troop of Washington, D. C., and Lu
 ther Alexander, c. Troop, of Colum
 bia, Tenn, the latter two being slight
 ly wounded in the arm, were emphati
 in their statements that the Mexican
 shot the American wounded after tn | fight outside Carrizal.
 Those who could speak little Eng
 fish bragged about shooting our boy . when they tried to get us while W
 were going through Villa Ahumada,
 Jones declared. Several boys Twin
 just beyond me were not fatal
 wounded, but when I went past ther
 after losing consciousness they wer
 dead with several bullet wounds i
 their bodies"
 f They stole my S4O0, my half cara | diamond ring and my r jewel watch
 added Gibson, and when we wer
 passing through Villa Ahumada an
 Chihuahua City the people thre,
 stones and coal at us."
 m They got $90.35 from me. but the Sd fixed my arm up all right" Jone n chimed in.
 so Tt was day and half before the oo even looked at my shoulder" asserte m Alexander, the most seriously wounde 1e prisoner Then they didn' dress oc very well'
 m Alexander told the story of an hol m and half in which he lay in a gull os in the center of the Carrizal battl, n field, watching for opportunities 7o pick off Mexican soldiers as tho m showed themselves from behind 9c screen of shrubbery.
 7o T don't know just how I got in m that ditch" he said, but I got sc there alright and then, when I lookt m around, l knew my best bet was oo stay there, because if tried to 2 os out they would shoot me sure as 'e eo ran. But it got mighty tiresome the wi I