Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-25
RIDE At TOP SPEED
IN HAIL OF BULLETS
AT MEXICAN TRAP
American Troopers Charge
Twice Directly Into Jaws
of Ambush.
LED ON GALLANT DASH
BY WOUNDED CAPTAIN
First Detailed Account of Car
rial Fight From American
Sources Received.
CORPORAL GREEN TELLS STORY
or Men Engaged, 13 Were Killed, 22
Taken Prisoner, 33 Reach Camp
and 18 Unaccounted For.

FIELD HEADQUARTERS June q
Coy wireless to Columbus. y. Mp.-
Trapped and Hght!nE against heavy
odds. the troops OF the Tenth Cavalry.
engaged at Carr!zal on Wednesday,
charged twice directly into the Jaws
o. the ambush which tho MexiCans had
laid for them. With bullets In his
arm and shoulder, Captain Charles 7.
BOYD. the commander. remained In the
saddle. leading his negro troopers Gn-
Ill they had captured tn norcealed
Mexican 1nachine-Gun treu. when he
fel. mortal!y wounded w.t bullet
IN tho eye.
This was the g!st OF the arst detailed
account of the engagement from amer
.can sources which was brought TO Cen
cral Persh!ng to-day by Corporal Green.
o.. Troop. who was at Captain Royd's
sie when he fell
The Americans were fanked on both
sides hy the Carrenzistas. who had
partly surrounded the i!ttle command
during conference between General
Felix Gomez, the Mexican leader, and
Captain Boyd. IN front was a con-
ccsle3 Mexican machine-guu trench
from which a stream Of bullets unex-
pected!y Vas poured into the Amer
team ranks
BOYD, THOUGH WOUNDED.
GIVES ORDER TO CHARGE
Corporal Green said that Captain
Bovd although wounded IN IN" arm
and shoulder by the first fire. !maed!-
a,-!y gave the order TO charge. md the
detachment rode at top speed, in a hall
q. bullets, directly At the trench cap
turing * !ust as the American leader
fell The Mexicans rctreatcd 20 cover
in nearby adobe shack.
Lieutenant Henry Adair assumed
command and ordered a second charge,
wn!ch drove through the shack, scat
terinr the Mexican command.
Green said he i.d not SEE Lieutenant
A1a!r after this charge. and believed
tina, he los; his NE IN 81.
Meanwhile Captain Lewis s. Morey.
commanding * Troop. which was also
partly surrounded during the parley.
occupied another adobe house with his
men. from which he engaged q second
attachment OF The Mexicans. While 1t
IS assumed here that Captain Morey
was wounded in the fight. neither Cor
ro:al Green nor anE O: the other sur
v!vnrs reachins here knew anything
o. the outcome o: his par; of the hsht.
SHATTERED REMNANTS
MAY DE; on WAY TO CAMP
Il is believed here. however. that ne
nlay have collected the shattered rem
rants of the American command, and
is bringing them slowly through OBJ
s:acles to General Pershing's lines. The
survivors, arriving here said that the
Carranzistas circled far around Car
RIAL, after the engagement, and over
took and captured 4 number OF sold ers
who had been holding horses back
beyond sight of the point where the
aght began.
Piec!ng together the fragmentary re-
ports which have reached field head
quarters. all except twenty-one of the
eighty-four men engaged In the fight
have been accounted for. These reports
indicate that thirteen were killed and
seventeen taken prisoner Thirty
three have come into camp here III the
last two days. most of them comine
afoot over desert. suffering the
greatest hardshps from lack OF water.
News dispatches from Chihuahua
CITY on Friday indicated that with the
capture of five additional prisoners, the
cartives IN the hands of the Carran-
g!stas now number twenty-five. leav-
ing sixteen of the men enca yed az Car
riza! unaccounted for.
STATE: OF AMERICANS
Still. Is UNKNOWN
SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. June ga
The force of the Tenth United States
Cavalry under Captain Charles T. Boyd
succeeded in breaking through the
lines OF the Mexican force under Cen
eral Felix Gomez at Carrizal. accord
ing TO message tonight from Gem
eral PershinG TO General Funston, but
whether any OF them were able 10
make their escape still is unknown
Captain Boyd's men Of Troop took
the ditch in which the front line Of
Mexican troops We're intrenched and
charged through into tho town Of Car
rigal. Troop l., under Captain Lewis
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