The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-06-23

TELL OF FIGHT
Declare Attack by Mexicans
at Carrizal Was Entirely
Unprovoked
TREVINO THREATENS
ATTACK LIKE GOMEZ
Captain Boyd and Lieut.. Adair, U. S.
A, Among Those Killed in Clash -
Troopers Taken Prisoners Are In
termed at Chihuahua City.


SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June %. -
Stragglcrs from the 10th Cavalry de
tachmcnt that was in the fight at Car
rial arrived at Gen. Pershing's head
quarters yesterday and told him that
the fighting began with an unprovoked
attack on the Americans at the conclu-
sion OF a parley with the Mexican com
mandcT. Gen. Pershing transmitted
their story to Gen. Funston last night,
who Immediately referred it to the war
department.
The men were unable to tell any
thing regarding the casualties, or even
the later phases of the engagement.
They rctreated during the fight and be
came separated from their commands,
making their way back to the Amcri-
can lines.
Two troops Of the 10th Cavalry. Com
| panv c. commanded by the captain.
| Charles T, Boyd, and Company *, com
manded NY Capt. Lewis Morey, com
prised the detachment that arrived
within q mile of Carrizal at a m, on
| June p. They had stopped at Oio de
| Santo Domingo on the previous night,
rcsuming their march toward the east
at @ clock the next morning.
From their position in front of Car
rial. the commander of the detach-
ment, believed by Gen. Pcrshing to
have been Capt. Boyd, since he was
senior in rank to Capt. Morev, sent for
| ward n Mexican guide to secure from
the commander of the Mexican garri-
son there permission to pass through
the town.
Cen. Felix Gomez sent back work
by the guide that the Americans might
pass through if they would consent to
4 parlcv. Without waiting for the
commander of the American force tt
reply, Gen. Gomez accompanied by an
aide, appeared and the American Of
ticer rode forward to talk with him
!, While they were talking. the meI
said, the Mexican troops moved for
: ward in force and dcployed in sucI
/ manner that there appeared danger o.
the American force being surrounded
f One of the men who had been holding
; tire horses of the American officer an,
l the man who had ridden forward witt
him said the American officer appearc,
+ to protest against the positions Gen
r Come 8 troops were taking. A few
) minutes later Gen. Gomez rode of
toward one end Of the Mexican lin
i and Immediately after getting there tn
= MeXicans began to attack. sweeping
, the American line with machine gun
f CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, Jun
= %. - The seventeen American soldier,
Negro troopers of the Tenth Cavalry
= who were captured in the battle at Cal
} rial, were brought here yesterday wit
Lem II. Spillsbury, a Mormon scou
! employed by Gen. J. J. Pershing, an
were informed
= Spillsbury said that Capt Charles 7
,, | Boyd commanded the Americans m,
with Lieut.. Henry r. Adair, was anon
) the killed. Capt. Lewis S. Morcv, VIII
n was with the American detachmcn
was wounded in the shoulder. but e
, caped.
.. In announcing n story of the battl
which he said Spillsburv told him, Gle
Jacinto TreVinO, commander of the mi
itary district of the northeast, a
nOunced that any time and at al
place the American troops move 9th,
than toward the border. he will comp
to the letter with his superior s orde
and will attack them as Gen. Eel
Gomez did at Carrizal Gen Trevil
said that all diplomatic arrangement
are outside of his sphere.
: Spillsbury S story, as announced
u Gen. Trevino, was to the effect that
a. Negroes, comprising H Troop of t
Is tenth, Capts. Boyd and Moore, Liel
1t Adair and himself, composed t
to American detachment that encounter
the Mcxicans. He said that he saw