The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-08
STORY OF The RAID
Women Were Not MOlested, as
Far as Is Known.
List of Six Killed Has Not Been
Increased Today.

Alpine, Texas, May S.-FIeeing
through the wild mesas of northern
Coahuila, the bandits that raided the
American settlement of Glenn Springs,
and Boquilla, last Friday, killing three
cayalrymen and three others are be-
lieved to be heading from the scene of
their depredations into the interior
today.
A posse from Marathon and a de-
tachment of % troopers of the 14th
cavalry are said to have followed the
trail of the MeXicanS into Coahuila,
while other reports have it that the
Americans have not forded the Rio
Grande 95 miles from here but are
waiting at the river for reinforce
ments.
Captain Caspar Cole is hurrying to
BoquillaS to take command while two
companies of the Fourteenth cavalry
and machine gun company are ex-
pected here or at Marathon this after
noon. They will head southwark to
the Big Bend country. 1t is about a
three days march from either Mara
then or Alpine to the Rio Grande and
the bandits already have a three days
start
Private Tyree Still Missing.
Nothing mas been heard of Private
Roscoe Tyree, who was last seen as he
ran from the adobe house where he
and his eight companions for three
hours fought the Mexicans and then
fled because the roof of the house was
set aflame by fire balls
UncontirmeG reports say that J.
Deemer, the storekeeper at Bouquillas
has been found dead on the Mexican
| side with his throat cut HIS clerk,
named Compton is known to have
/ been made a captive. He IS thought to
have suffered the fate of Deelner.
There were only 4 few Americans in
! Glenn Springs and at Bouquillas at the
/ tfrNlo of fE.~ Il
parently made no effort to locate
them. They escaped into the hills
when the shooting started
Didn't Modest Women.
Several women are known to be liv-
| ing on the scattered ranches in the
Big Bend country but there is nothing
to indicate that they have been mo.
Tested. The Mexican employees of the
| Ellis Wax factory in Glenn Spring.
/ were not molested. The bodies of tn,
three soldiers killed in the Glenn
Springs raid, VIM. Cohen, Stephen j
Coloe and Hudson Rogers, will bC
sent to their homes today.
The body of the Compton boy ha
been taken to Marathon. A trucl
driver. Champ Wood. yesterday re
ported missing. is safe.
Mrs. w. X Ellis and her husband
whose wax factory was destroyed b,
the Mexicans, had narrow escapes
mrs E.lllS was the only woman il
Glenn Springs when the bandit
swooped down upon the settlement
In the Pickering lights of the burn
ing buildings she and her HUSBAND
stole out of their house and fled il
safety to the hills, where they wan
dercd around until morning
Rush Signal Corps.
San Antonio. May S.-A section o
Company H, signal corps. in com
mand of Captain H. l.. Evans will
leave Fort Sam Houston today fol
Marathon by special train to estab
lish a telegraph line from that poin
to Glenn Springs. The distance i
about SIS miles. The section will car
~ its own transportation, mules ant
wagons.
Although official Information 1
lacking on the subject many officer
at the post are convinced that tn
troops ordered to Glenn Springs from
. Ell Paso and Fl. Clark, a total of fou
troops of cavalry will pursue tn
bandits in Mexico. Colonel Sibley, il
command of the movement has re
ceived his orders direct from Genera
Funston.
Mobilize New Arrivals
Alpine. May s.-Troops A. and O
the Sth cavalry, under command o
( Major General T Lonehorne, reache
Marathon today from FL Paso and i'm
: mediately started southwest to Glen
! Springs over the truck roads. TIL