Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-24
COMPLETELY oIsoReANlzEo.
Two Troops in carrixaI Battle Widely
Scattered After Fight.

Two Troops in carrixaI Battle Widely
4. Scattered After Fight.
San Antonio, June 24.-Complete dis
organizing Of the two troops that were
In the Carrizal fight Wednesday morn
ing with Carranxa troops and the an
Inhalation Of those in the fight was In
dicated in a report from Pershing to
Funston today.
Eight enlisted men of G troop and
seven men of X troop were picked up
yesterday morning by Lieutenant Mey-
er near Santa Maria. The story they
told was almost the same as that told
by the other stragglers who preceded
them.
Wounded Men Captured.
General Pershing in his report today
referred to the number of those who
had returned to the American lines as
eleven, altho in other dispatches he
fixed the number at seven. With those
who were rescued by Lieutenant Mey-
er the total number returned was ~.
The total number of men in the two
troops was learned today to have been
eighty -four. General Pershing Offer
ing q summary of his information and
explaining that his conclusions were
based on such information as he had
secured from the stragglers and from
press reports called attention to the
indications that there were fifty seven
missing and that press reports said
fourteen Of these had been killed and
forty three are prisoners. General
Pershing did not account in his report
for the number wounded, but appears
to assume that all wounded had been
captured.
He stated that he had received a
report from the commanders of both
squadrons OF the Eleventh cavalry that
had been sent on to rescue the rem
nant 1t the Tenth.
Is t4Sifsst,oldsrs Retreat Early.
All those brought in bys Lieutenant
Meyer was horseholders. and like those
coming into camp yesterday were not
in the fight. They had had difficulty.
they said, in handling the horses when
the machine gun and rife fire began
and retreated before the conclusion of
the engagement.
They had cared for such horses as
they could round up after they got
beyond range of the fire, the full num-
Der of mounts in their possession when
found by Lieutenant Meyer being
twenty Ave.
The troopers told their storiees' today
before they had re -entered the camp
or had an opportunity to talk with
stragglers who had come In before
them. The accounts they gave were
said to have. borne out in all details
those told previously.
Verify Gomez's Treachery.
They said they saw General Gomez
and his aide ride forward to parley
with Captain Boyd and later saw him
move towards the flank Of the Mexican
troops that had begun closing on the
American force. According to the
story, the first intimation any one had
that hostilities were going to come was
an outburst of machine gun fire. They
corroborate the story that said 1t was
not until then that Captain Boyd gave
the order for his men to dismount and
return the fire. The Mexicans during
the parley had crowded forward and
assumed such positions that when they
attacked they were in position to
sweep with the killing fire the Ameri-
can line stating exposed in the open.
Oficers at General Funston's head
quarters seemed convinced that after
studying General Persh.ng's 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 very far.