The Harrison times., 1916-07-15

would pitch face forward into it with
out support.
Il understand the noncOmmissiOned
officer left Adair wounded in the ditch
at Adair's order and went forward to
| Carrizal. Then, looking back, he saw
his officer with his eyes glazing, his
head wObbling against the side of the
ditch, and he ran back and remained
with him till death came.
Caught in Angle of Fire.
Boyd was killed when his troop
made the rush for the trench in which
Carranzistas had the machine guns.
Just how he died | don't know"
Caught in right angle Of fire,
MOrey's small detachment, as previ-
Gus dispatches have related, was
forced to retire Mounts had been
sent to the rear, and every man, in
| Guiding the leader, was afoot.
Alternately lying fiat on their faces
and then rising and fighting desperate
| ly, the little band maneuvered to the
rear 1t continued to withdraw until
Morey, with one of the cOrpOrals, who
was bleeding profusely from the
/ shoulder and who wore Boyd's hat,
found themselves with seven men be-
hind an adobe wall near dry hole
which offered protection from the bull
| let's, but not from the sun.
Three hundred yards to the south
were the Carranzistas, some mount
ed, some afOot, advancing, firing and
yelling. They had become embold-
ened by the Americans retirement.
Walked as If Dazed.
when | got behind that wall" re-
sumed Morey in a matter-offact tone,
81 tod the men l proposed to stay
there Those who wished to go, told
to 60"
-Four men, including one wounded
man, elected to make the desperate
| attempt to escape, and Morey told
how he saw them ascend the hill
which stretched away TO the north.
IL never saw men act so strange
ly," he said. "They didn't run or
seem to exert themselves; they sim
ply moved away as if dazed up the
hill, and by so doing they probably
saved US. We who remained behind
the wall saw the Carranzista horse
men riding to outtlank them. The
Carranzistas apparently thought they
had us behind the wall safely, and
bent all their efforts on getting the
four who were trying to escape. We
were unmolested."
With the enemy beating the cOun-
try on all sides, Morey and three black
| troopers lay in the hole behind the
wall all that long, waterlesS day, with
the sun beating squarely down on
them.
Night came and with II came n
welcome drop in temperature, and
the stars. The wounded officer and
men started trailing west on the first
leg Of the 70-mile journey to Perish
ing's line.
Too Weak to Walk. 8.
Morey was so weak that he could
only walk hundred yards or so at
stretch, and as the night wore on and
he oecame weaker and weaker he con-
cluded that II was humanity impossible
for him to go farther.
SO he first requested--and when
| they refused-he ordered the three
negro troopers to leave him,
"I reasoned" he said today, that
they could go on and | couldn't, so
l made them CO."
The three went on. Morey, his
wounds bandaged as best they could
be, lny down on the desert and slept.
The stars were still out, but dawn was
breaking when he awoke, strengthened
| by .he rest. He forced himself to his
feet and staggered on In the direction
in which he thought lay Snnto Domln-
90 ranch, eight miles frcm Carrizal,
and the point where the command
had bvouackej the night before the
| fight.
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