Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-06-25


ments into Mexico and keeping American
rolling stock on this side of the frontier.
While no specific embargo orders have
been received, it was said, every effort
was being made to prevent any large con-
signments crossing the border.
Wants Troopers Release Demanded.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. June 24.-Gen
, Frederick Funston made an urgent re-
quest of the War Department today
that some step be taken Immediately
to demand the release of the Americans
taken prisoner in the fight at Carrizal
and now held in the penitentiary at
Chiahuahua city, "a state of war
does not now exist-between the United
States and Mexico. He urged that
demand be made that the captured
I, troops be sent to Juarez for transfer
1 to- United States authorities.
1t was pointed out that stories Of
stragglers now have been told that they
agree in all general details. and that
even if other stragglers should be
found it is not expected, that they
could add much to what already is
known.
Cen Pershing expressed hope that
Capt. Lewis Morey, reported wounded.
might be found in such condition as
of the affair when the relief expedi-
tion of the 18th Cavalry returns to the
main column.
Gen. Bell at Ell Paso reported to Cen
Funston that he had been told by a
prominent Mexican who arrived today
from Chihuahua city that the latter
had seen the prisoners at Chihuahua.
and had counted twelve negroes and
the hope that the white men might
prove to be some of the officers with
Capt. Boyd's expedition. 1t was pointed
out, however, that they probably were
civilian packers attached to the COM
mand.
Pershing Reports 27 Returned.
Gen. Pershing, in his report today. re-
ferred to the number of those who
previously had returned to the Amer
lean lines eleven, although in pre-
vious dispatches he fixed the number
at seven. With those who were res
cued by Lieut.. Meyer the total number
of those who had returned was twenty
seven.
The total number of men in the two
troops was learned today to have been
eighty-four. Gen. Pershing Offering
summary of his information and ex-
planning that his conclusions were
based on such information he had
obtained from the stragglers and from
press reports, called attention to the
Indications that there were fifty-seven
missing, and that press reports indi-
Gated fourteen of these were dead and
forty three were prisoners.
Gen. Pershing does not account in his
report for the number wounded, but ap-
peared to assume that all those wounded
had been captured.
Cen Pershing reported that he had re-
ceived no report from the commander of
the two squadrons of the 11th Cavalry
that had been sent forward to rescue the
remnant of the 10th.
All those brought in by Lieut.. Meyer
were not actually In the fight. They had
difficulty, they said. in handling the
horses when the furious machine gun
and rifle fire began. and they retreated
before the conclusion of the engagement.
They had cared for such horses as they
could round up after they got beyond
mounts in their possession. when en-
countered by Lieut.. Meyer. being tyen-
ty-five.
The troopers told their stories before
they had re-entered the camp and had
an opportunity to talk with the strag-
glers who had preceded them. The ac-
counts were said to have borne out in all
essential details those previously told.
Opened Fire With Machine Gun.
They said they saw Gen. Felix Gomez
and his aid riding forward to parley with
Capt. Boyd, and later saw him move to-
ward the flank of the Mexican troops that
had begun closing in on the American
force. According to their story. the first
intimation any one had that hostilities
were determined upon was the outburst
Of machine gun fire. They corroborated
the accounts that said it was not until
then that Capt Boyd gave the command
for his men to dismount and return the
fire. The Mexicans during the parley had
crowded forward and had assumed such
positions that when they attacked theg
were in position to sweep with a killing
fire the American line standing exposed in
the open.
officers at Gen. Funston's headquarters
seemed convinced after studying Gen.
Pershings latest report that all of the two
troops that would be found now would be
wounded and that, therefore the battered
remnant could not have moved far from
the scene of the fight.
Admission of these facts increased their
apprehension to the fate of the troopers
The greatest hope of officers here today
was that nothing worse had befallen
them, and that they would be there when
the relief force from the 11th finally got
to them Although no news had been
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