The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-06-25
CARRIZAL IS
THE MODERN
ALAMO FIGHT
No One In the Actual Bat
tie Has Got Back to
Camp.
.PERSHING HAS
NO FURTHER NEWS
Americas Were in the Open
When Mexicans Opened
Fire.
~ ASSOCIATED PRESS,

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
San Antonio, Tex, June 24.-In the
shadow of the Alamo, where the deeds
of Davy Crockett, James Bowie, Col.
Travis and Col. Bonham made history
seventy years ago, citizens of San An
tonic today were convinced that an
other Alamo had been fought last
Wednesday at Carrizal by Captain
Charles T. Boyd's troopers of the
Tenth cavalry and that the names of
captains Boyd and Morey and Lieu
tenant Adair would go down in his
tory alongside those of their illus
trious predecessors.
General Pershing IN his report to-
day referred to the number of those
who previously had returned to the
American lines as eleven. With those
who were rescued by Lieut.. Mayer,
the total number of those who had
returned was twenty-seven.
The total number of men in the two
troops was eighty-four, it was learn
today. General Pershing, offering
summary of his information obtains
ed from the stragglers and from press
reports, called attention to the indi-
cations that there were fifty-seven
missing and that press reports indi-
Gated that fourteen of these were lead
and forty-three were prisoners.
General Pershing does not account
in his report for the number of
wounded, but appeared to assume
that all those wounded had been cap
tured.
General Pershing reported that he
had received no report from the COM
mander of the two squadrons of the
Eleventh cavalry that had been sent
forward to rescue the remnant of the
Tenth.
All those brought in by Lieut. Mayer
were horse holders and like those who
| came into camp yesterday were not
actually in the fight. They had diff
ficulty, they said, in handling the
horses when the furious machine gun
and rifle fire began and they retreat
ed before the conclusion of the en-
gagement.
They had cared for such horses as
they could round up after they got
beyond the range of the fire, the full
number of mounts in their possession,
when encountered by Lieut.. Meyer,
being 25.
The troopers told their stories be-
fore they had re-entered the camp,
and had an opportunity to talk with
the stragglers who had preceded them.
The accounts were said to have borne
out in all essential details those pre-
| viously told.
They said they saw General Felix
Gomez and his aide riding forward to
parley with Captain Boyd and later
saw him move toward the flank of
the Mexican troops that had begun
closing IN on the American force.
According to their story the first in
timation any one had that hostilties
were determined upon was the out
burst Of machine gun fire. The corrob-
GRATED the accounts that said it was
not until then that Captain Boyd gave
the command for his men to dismount
and return the fire. The Mexicans
during the parley had crowded for.
ward and had assumed such positions
. that when they attacked they were in
position to sweep with killing fire
the American line standing exposed il
the open.
Officers at General Funston's head.
quarters seemed convinced after study
ing General Pershing's latest reports
! be found now would be wounded and
that therefore, the battered remnant
; could not have moved far from the
scene of the fight.