The Washington times., 1916-03-19
Villa Hunt Recalls Old
Battles With Indians
Colonel Dodds Flying Column Now Covering Old Trail
Taken Thirty Years Ago by Sixth Cavalry in Dash
After Renegade Chiefs.

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as II ig today.
AZ the Time OF the beginning of IN.
their prototype IN tSs Villa which shss6,,nd
tribe OF renegadeB-had been persiladad
10 take up their residence on the San
states could keep It's eye upon them.
They came, under Geronimo, the fnedi.
S Sn man. ana Whoa, and took up resi-
dence with Chief yictoria's Apaches.
toria, with a band Of reneesdes BROKE
from the San Carlos reservation.
Through New Mexico and Arizona he
sped. spreading death and destruction.
airy. and part OF the Sixth, including
The indian company. OF which I had
command, took the trail behind him.
HIS way was marked. by burned
ranches and murdered Americans. More
than 1000 men and women fell at the
hands OF his band before our forces
cornered him in the San Andreas noun
tains.
fight that used to be waged on the
border. And II was followed by man.
skirmishes. That was the beginning or
the border warfare.
Then the renegades struck south
ward into Mexico.
Permission to Cross Line.
ut became imperative that they be
rounded up. 30 permission was given
by Porfirio Diaz for United States
troops to cross the line.
zone column left FIT. Bayard under
General Buell. of the Fifteenth Infantry.
Another marched from Ft. Bowie. under
Gen. Eugene A. Carr. who had with
him the Sixth Cavalry, and the Indian
scouts.
stands, and took the trail down to As
cension and Corrolitos, striking the
Casas Grande river and moving east
ward. about $50 miles below the line. in
Most of the march lay through the
great plains about Casas Grande where
eight years later the Mormons estab-
lished their settlements. Those are the
settlements which today are causing
the United States so much concern.
I'm those days. though, the plain was
unpeopled and unbroken save for great
piles OF Aztec and Toltec ruins. About
cred with broken potsherds, and long
dry irrigation bitches of a prehistoric
race scarreo the face of the country.
mo man who has not been upon one
ceive OF the trail conditions or what
hardships attended the pursuit.
But finally the chase ended. Our
quarry fell into other hands.
YVES band in night sought shelter
one night in Mexican village along
what is now the line Of tho Mexican
National railroad near Papos They
were royalty welcomed by the Mexicans
but that night they lay down to their
deaths. Morning found almost every
member Of Victoria's band with his
Only a few escaped. Among them
were Chiefs Loco and Name. the one
And 50. with our work done for us
by others. our troops withdrew.
Pursuit of Loco.
"Chief Loco the following year. hav-
ing returned to the United States, agnin
left the San Carlos reservation. He
was pursued into Mexico, yet before he
was overtaken he suffered a fate SINH
lar to that Of Chief Vic. He was hem
med in and his band wiped out near
Corralitos, just about where Colonel
Dodd will camp tonight.
Another authorized entry Into Mexico
by American troops took place in 1850,
when a column was sent into Sonora to
break up a revolutionary band which
had been raiding American ranches for
mounts. On that occasion part OF the
Sixth Cavalry went south as far as
Tubec."
General Maus participated In the ex-
| petition, which perhaps went farther
| south into Mexico than any other Of the
| American columns. An ocial account
of this expedition was later written by
Lieut.. w. Z. Ship, who also accom-
| panied II.
With a command composed entirely
| of Indian scouts, and Differed by white
men, Capt. Emmett Crawford took the
trail of one of the Geronimo bands in
| 1885.
Far below the line he followed them,
under almost insuperable difficulties.
| finally overtaking them near NarcoZari,
| Mexico. An interchange of shots fol-
! lowed. during which many OF the rene
gade Indians were killed, and parley
| ensued.
Captain Crawford, In the early dawn,
| had just mounted a pinnacle of rock
| and had begun to talk 10 the Indians
hidden about i'll the canyons and behind
J boulders, when party OF Mexicans
arrived
Believing, It was afterward stated.
[ that they had encountered hostile In
dams, the Mexicans opened fire. Cap
! tain Crawford fell with the first Volley.