Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-28
MOREY GREETED
AS FROM GRAVE
Troopers Eager to Grasp Hand
of Captain Given Up
as Slain

2S).-Captain Lewis 5. Morey, K.
Troop, 10th Cavalry, the sole officer
to survive the fight with Carranzistas
near Carrizal, sat on the edge of a
bunk in the thatched hut used as
headquarters yesterday and told an
attentive group of fellow officers, who
had gathered to congratulate him as
one from the grave, intimate details,
as the soldiers saw them, OF the first
real tragedy of this campaign.
Morey had spent the night in the
hospital after his arrival here by mo-
tor late last evening and to-day, his
blood-stained shirt removed and his
body cleansed and refreshed, he was
able to be about camp, with his left
shoulder, through which a Mauser bull
let had passed, swathed in bandages.
He first held conference with Gen
eral Pershing and then visited his
regiment, in what will probably re-
main one of the most remarkable re-
unions of this campaign. AS he walked
through the company streets, flanked
by tents and the curiously woven
brush quarters the men and officers
have built, there was neither cheering
nor music, but from each group as he
passed some officers walked out, faced
him eagerly and grasped his hand as
they said: Glad you are back. Con-
gratulations." Those are simple words,
but they were fervent, for no man in
this command believed Morey would
be back again.
Speaks Without Exaggeration
Morey is a studious-looking man,
with lean, whiskered face and spec
tacled. In telling his story, he spoke
slowly and haltingly, but without ex-
aggeratlon and with superb restraint
and modesty. He blamed no one, drew
no conclusions and offered no hind
sight suggestions as to what should
be done. His voice was almost emo
tionless, rising in pitch and tone only
when the speaker told how he went
without drink from o'clock on the
morning Of June 21, the day of the
hsht' TIL I o'clock on the following
DAY, when he had been wounded and
ohstered by the suns rays all day. It
seemed, he said, the longest day of
the year. Morey suffered such thirst
that II will leave an impression for
life. He asked that canteen of wa
ter be handed him while he was telling
MS story. How those two troops of
the Tenth left Santo Domingo early
that Wednesday morning, rode toward
Carrlzal, how Captain Boyd conferred
with Gomez and how, thanking the
Americans right and left, the Carran-
z!stas opened fire, has already been
told and these details. heretofore re-
lated, Morey confirmed.
Adair Died in Irrigation Ditch
he added little to the story of that
night. except to say that CAPTAIN Bovd
and Lieutenant Harry Adair died like
gentlemen and soldiers, and that the
Carranzistas started hostilities byonen-
ing up with machine gun, and that
IN the hring which immediately fol-
lowed the MeXcans seemed to he CON
cenrating their fire on the white Of
ncers, OF whom there were only three.
Moreys troops, consisting of only SO
men, were on the right flank when
-
- be could follow the charge of c TROOP,
Hnder Boyd and Adair only to the
fringe OF the brush into which men
and horses disappeared.
~, Troop men tell me-" he went on.
that Adalr died in the irrigation
oltch, his head held by a nonconnn1is-
stoned officer. There was water in The
ditch, and on dying Adair would pitch
forward into 1t without support I
Understand the noncommissioned Of
hcer left Adair wounded in the ditch
aL Adalrs order, and went forward
~" aIu Carrlza!. Then, looking back,
ne saw his officer with eyes glazed,
ms mead wobbling against the ditch
siae, ana ran back to remain with him
until death. -'---'
Captain Boyd was killed when his
troop made rush for the trench in
Which the Carranzistas had placed
Ihelr machine guns. Just how he died
l don't know" N-o"
Sheltered Behind Adobe Wall
caught in a right angle of fire.
Moreys small detachment. as nrevio,Is
dispatches related, was forced 10 re-
@ re. mounts had been sent to the
rear and every man, Including the
leader, was afoot. Aiternatair I,.iI1s, irie
Liat on the ground and then rising to
HsHt desperately, they gradually ma
heuVered to the rear. The LITTLE hand
mIInqrew until Morey and the cor
porat, wearing Boyd's hat, and bleed
ing from his shoulder. found sbaI+a,
with seven men behind an adoba T,sII
ana near a dry hole, Offering protec-
uon from the bullets, but not from tho
sun. Three hundred yards To the
south were the Carranzistas. some
mounted some afoot, advancing as
.tey HIeu ana yelling, ENCOURAGED as
ment. FetlFe-
When I got behind that wall" re-
uuIneG uI Morey IN matter-of-fact way.
told my men that proposed to stav
mere. Those who wished to 90. told
10 go. Four men, including one
"ounueu' s s,' erected to make a try for
Morey tells how he saw them ascand
north. away 10 the
never saw men act so strangeIv, i"
sald Morey: They didn't run or seem
eASII themselves. They simnIv
moved away uphill as If dazed. ana hy,
so doing probably saved us, We Wiz
remained behind that wall noticed
Gtiarranza horsemen riding out to flank
them. 1t was apparent that the Car
ranzlstas had seen some of us faLe
retuge behind the wall. and. notine
Iour trying to escape uphill. went in
PURSUIT leaving US unmolested."
with the enemy beating the coun+rv
on all sides, Morey and three biaci
troopers lay IN the hole or behind tba
val all that long day without water
Nlsht came, and with it a dron in ~ a
temperature and the stars. so tbe
wounded officers and men startad
Iralllng to the west on the first reIsI,
OF a 70-mile journey. Morey was ao
weak that he could walk only Inn
yards or so at a stretch. and as niebt
wore on he concluded it humanlv IN
possible for him to go further. So he
Krst requested, and, when thev re-
used ordered the three negroes 10
leave him. ~
@OVERRULE EASEMENT MOTION
London, June 2S. = The motion of
Slexander Sullivan, chief counsel Tor
Sir Roger Easement on trial here 1or
Neason asking that the Indictment
against the defendant be ouashed ~
the ground that it was faulty, was