The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-11
AMERICANS FOUND
WITH THR0ATS CUT
Mexicans Kill Man and Boy Cap
tured in Raid.
u. S. TROOPS HUNT SLAYERS
Soldiers and Cowboys Cross Rio
Grande and Are Reported to Have
Engaged Outlaws ->Carranza
Captain Aided in Attack.

Captain Aided in Attack.
Marathon, Tex, May o. - Forty
American troopers and cowboys
crossed the river into Mexico at Bo-
quillas to rescue the seven American
imperiled at the Puerto Rico mine.
Two Americans Slain.
Washington, May 9.-Consul Block
err at Eagle Pass, Tex, reported to
the state department that the two
Americans, Deemer and Coy, who
were taken away from Glen Springs
by bandits during Friday nights raid,
have been found with their threats
cut. Blocker reported that all wom-
Springs to Marathon by motor trucks.
He did not state whether they were
living or dead.
Posse on Way to Mine.
Marathon, Tex, May 9.-American
frontiersmen under the leadership of
Sheriff Watson and Customs Inspector
Ryan are rushing through Boquillas
into Mexico to the aid of seven Amer
lean employees of the Puerto Rico
Zinc mine, IA miles below Boquillas.
Already they may have engaged the
bandit raiders. At Boqullas the raid
ers said they were going to the mine
to kill every "gringo' there.
Maj. George T. Langhorne and two
troops Of the Eighth cavalry from Fort
Bliss are swinging southwark by
forced marches to Boqullas and will
arrive there Wednesday morning.
Il am clear of red tape and | know
to a group of Marathon men of the
hardy Big Bend type just before he
left.
Private Boscoe Tyree thhe missing
soldier, is safe. He and Sergeant
Smith, the wounded hero of the Glen
Springs fight, arrived at Marathon by
motor truck. Tyree, terribly burned,
hid out in the bushes and escaped the
bandits.
Carranzista With Raiders.
o. G. Compton, the Glen Springs
man who was reported captured by
the bandits, also arrived in Marathon
and hurried to the hospital to see his
wife. He escaped in the confusion
and hid until the bandits had dis
appeared He came up with w. l..
Matthews and James Walker of the
sheriff's posse, which they left at
Glen Springs. Matthews and Walk
er say II bandits were found in the
bushes surrounding the soldiers quar-
ters. Among them was one with a
Carranza commission as captain in
his pockets.
Sibey Reaches Marathon.
Col. w. f. Sibley, with two troops
of the Fourteenth cavalry and a ma
chine gun company, reached Marathon
from Fort Clark at Brackettsville.
Colonel Sibleys force will follow Lang
horne.
Word of the peril of the American
miners across the river was brought
to Marathon by Fermin Reyes of New
DOuullldS, lHt AluCI iNal o'ttitlLtIll
opposite Boquillas.
L. Coy sent out by Reyes this note
to Denny
Bandits attacked terminal here at
daybreak Saturday, robbed stores and
took Deemer, Payne and two Next
cans prisoners. They are now on their
way to Puerto Rico mine, declaring
they will kill the seven Americans
there. Am going to their assistance
with all help can get"
Champion B. Wood, the young chauf-
feur, sent this note:
Am safe after hiding in the bushes
all night with Gregorio. Don't alarm
dad"
Reyes declares he recognized among
the fifty bandits who raided New
Boquillas several men who were mem
bers of the Carranza garrison before
it was withdrawn from Boquillas some
months ago.
This fits in with the assertion of
the returned members of the posse
that an ex-Carranza captain is among
the dead bandits.
Band Was Divided.
1t seems certain now that the ban
dts came across the river in the re-
gion directly below Glen Springs,
raided the soldiers camp first and
then split into two bands, one, led by
Gamboa, crossed back at the nearest
ford while the other took the road
from San Vicente eastward to New
Boquillas and looted the stores there
r daybreak before fleeing across the
liver.
Run Into the Bandits.
Captain Wood and a neighbor, O.
Demontell, started for Glen Springs
when they heard the firing and ran
into a bunch of bandits They were
shot at, but escaped into the brush
unframed.
The departure Of Troops A and b
of the Eighth cavalry for Boquillas
was ii businesslike procession. With
\ troop leading the cavalrymen swung
into the dusty road at a walk and i'm
five minutes had disappeared over the
rise due south. Four mule-drawn
wagons heavily loaded with nmmu.