Evening journal., 1916-06-27
ARMY MAY RESCUE
Americans IN mexico
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tale of the fight except to say that
Captain Boyd and Lieutenant Henry
Adair died like gentlemen and sol
diers, and that in the firing that fol-
lowed the Mexican attack, the Car
ranzistas seemed TO be centering |
their fire on the white soldiers.
Captain Morey's troop was on the |
right flank when the ball opened, |
as he expressed it, and he could fol- |
low the charge of Troop c under |
Captain Boyd and Lieutenant Adair /
only to the fringe of brush into which |
men and horses disappeared
Men of Troop tell me-" he said, |
"that Lieutenant Adair died in an
IRRIGATION ditch with his head held by
a non-commissioned officer. There
was water in the ditch and the dying
Adair would have pitched forward
into il had he not been supported.
II understand that the officer left AdairI
in The ditch at his order and went for
ward toward CaIrizal. Looking back, he
saw Adar with glazed eyes and his head
wohbling against the sides Of the ditch
$50 he went back and stayed with him
until be died
captain Boyd was killed when his
4roon made rush for the trench IT.
which the Carranzistas had machine
guns. just how he died / do not
know"
Morev told how his own small detsch-
ment. fighting on their bellies, withdrew
until NIorev. wounded in the shoulder,
found himself with seven men behind an
adobe wall near dry water hole, offer
inc nroteetion from bullets but not from
the sun.
Three hundred yards to the south
were the Cairanzistas, some mounted
and some afoot. firing and yelling as
thew advanced, emboldened by the
Americans retirement.
when got behind the WALL re-
sumed Morey, "I told the men I pur-
nosed TO stay there. Those who wish
ed to 20. I told to 60"
Four men. including one who was
wounded. elected to try to escape, and
Captain Morey said he saw them as
cend a hill stretching away to the
north.
"I never saw men act so strangely -
said Captain Morey. They did not
run or seem 10 exert themselves in
any way. They simply moved away
up hill as If dazed. and by doing so
probable saved us. We who remained
behind the wall noticed Carranza
horsemen riding out to flank them II
was apparent that some Of the Car
ranzistas had seen us take refuge be-
hind the wall and noting four trying
to escape went in pursuit, leaving US
unmolested."
Morey and three Black troopers lay
in that hole behind the wall all the
longest day Of the year without water
while the enemy beat the country OF
all sides. Night came on and with i
a drop in temperature. Under thi
stars the wounded officer and his mel
started trailing west in the first rela'
OF the 75-mile journey TO our line
Captain Morey was so weak h
could walk only 300 yards or so a
each stretch and as night wore on H.
decided II was humanity Impossible
for him TO 20 farther. He first re
quested the men to leave him an
when they refused, he ordered ther
TO leave
The three negroes obeyed the OF
der Captain Morey wound his band
age about his shoulder as best h
could and lay down to sleep on tn
desert. The stars we're still shining
but dawn was touching the sky whe
Alone. he forced himself to his fec
and staggered in the direction j
which he thought lay Santo Dominp
ranch. eight miles from Carrizal III
point where the command bivouacke
the night before the fight. TIL
ranch was deserted when he arrive
there at 4.SO a. m, but he found foe
and water.
Near the ranch he found five troo
ers of the Tenth Cavalry. They we
making their way for ranch at 81
Luis. thirty-five miles away VIII,
they found j. T. McCabe. manager
the ranch who drove them to 81
Luis. There they were Joined
Captain HOwzes squadron of q
Eleventh Cavalry, sent out by Gener
Pershing to pick them up.