Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-26
BREAKS THROUGH
TRAP OF MEXICANS
Captain Boyd Leads Force Out Of
Lines Of Surrounding De
Factos.
OTHER TROOP IS oUTFLANKED

OTHER TROOP Is 0UTFLANKED
CONTINUED from Page ~
and General Pershings report gives
no further details OF the fate OF
Adair and his men.
Men Are outflanked.
Captain Morey was shot through
the shoulder while advancing with
Troop X on the irrigation ditch. His
men, however, were outflanked by
superior force Of Mexicans and were
forced to take shelter in an adobe
house. When last seen by the strag-
glers, they were returning spirited
fire through windows and loopholcs
punched in the adobe walls to the
Mexicans, who entirely surrounded
their shelter and were pouring .
stream Of bullets at every opening.
Charge Into Ambush.
Trapped and fighting against heavy
odds, the troops of the Tenth cav
airy engaged at Carrizal on Wednes-
day charged twice directly into the
jaws of the ambush which the Mexi-
cans had laid for them. With bull
lets In his arm and shoulder, Captain
Charles T. Boyd, the commander, re-
NAMED in the saddle. leading his
negro troops until they had cap
tured the concealed Mexican machine
gun trench, when, he fell MORALLY
wounded with bullet in the eye.
This was the gist Of the first de-
tailed account of the engagement
from American sources, which was
brought to General Pershing today
BY Corporal Green Of Troop c, who
was at Captain Boyd's side until he
fell.
Flanked on Both Sides.
The Americans were thanked on
both sides by the Carranzistas, who
had partly surrounded the little COM
mand during conference between
General Felix Gomez, the Mexican
leader, and Captain Boyd. In front
was a concealed Mexican machine
gun trench, from which stream OF
leacen death Unexpectedly was
poured into the American ranks.
Corporal Green said that Captain
Boyd, although wounded in the arm
and shoulder by the first fire, irnme-
diately gave the order to charge, and
the detachment rode at top speed in
hail Of bullets directly at the trench,
capturing it just as the American
leader fell. The Mexieans retreated
to cover in a nearby adobe shack.
Lieutenant Henry Adair assumed
command and ordered a second
charge, which drove through the
shack, scattering the Mexican COM
mand. Green said he did not see
Lieutenant Adair after this charge,
and believed he lost his life in it.
Occupy Another Hut.
Meanwhile Captain Lewis S. Morey,
commanding K troop, which also was
partly surrounded during the parley,
occupied another adobe hut with his
men, from which he engaged sec
ond detachment OF the Mexieans.
| While 1t is assumed here that Captain
| Morey was wounded in the fight
neither Corporal Green nor any oi
the other survivors reaching here
knew anything of the outcome OF his
part OF the battle.
1t is believed here, however, that
he may have collected the scattered
remnants OF the American command
lis bringing them slowly. and through
heart-breaking obstacles, to General
Pershing's. The survivors arriving
there said that the Carranzistas circled
far around Carrizal after the engage.
lment and overlook and captured q
number OF soldiers who had beer
holding horses back beyond sight o.
the battle ground where the fight
began.
| All But 81 Accounted For.
| Fleeing together the fragmentar,
reports which have reached fielt
| headquarters, all except twenty-one o.
the eighty-four men engaged in thu
fight have been accounted for. These
reports indicate that thirteen wert
killed, seventeen taken prisoner ant
thirty-three have come into camp her,
in the last two days, most OF then
coming afoot over blistering deser'
suffering the greatest hardships from
lack OF water,
i News dispatches from Chihuahu'
City yesterday indicated that with thu
! capture OF five additional prisoner,
the captives in the hands OF the Car
ranzitas now number twenty-five
| leaving sixteen Of the men engaged .
Carrizal, unaccounted tor.
Baker Receives Report.
Washington, June "a. - Secrear,
Baker tonight received General Per
shing's latest official report on tn
fight at Carrizal. He made public tn
following excerpts:
, "A report received this nlornini
from Major Jenkins reports five mel
OF Troop c and one man Of Trool
: K have been found at the San Lui
. ranch. The men state that Captain
. Boyd's Troop c occupied the left Q
the line and that Captain Morey'
: Troop X occupied the right.
After the firing began, Troop G I'D
: vanced $50 yards toward the Mex
can positions along an irrigation
ditch, taking it and capturing nachin
guns. Captain Boyd was twice wound
ed in the arm and shoulder befor
reaching the position and was kille
at the irrigation ditch:
Troop c continued to advanc
through the town under Lieutenan
Adair. This was the last seen Of Troo
. c by these men.
Withdraws Short Distance.
i Troop K was outflanked and with