The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-26

CAPTAIN MOREY
!. FOUND ON RANCH
BADLY WOUNDED
Four Negro Troopers Were
With Lost Officer.
Condition Not Mentioned; Fear
May Be Dying.
ALL ACCOUNTED FOR BUT n
Positive Evidence of Treachery
Found in Notebook.
Contains Messages Written to
Boyd by Gomez.
ALL ACCOUNTED FOR BUT z.
Positive Evidence of Treachery
Found in Notebook.
Contains Messages Written to
Boyd by Gomez.

San Antonio, Tex, June 26.-Capt.
Lewis S. Morey, commander of Troop
K. Tenth cavalry, who sent to General
Pershing the first official account OF
the battle at Carrizal, was found today
with four negro troopers at san Luis
ranch, according to a message from
Pershing to General Funston.
No mention was made regarding the
condition of Morey, who was believed
to be dying when he wrote the letter
to Pershing a few hours after the
fight, from his place of concealment IN
an arroyo, about two miles from Car
RIAL. Major Jenkins, commanding
the relief column of Eleventh cavalry,
who found Morey and the four men,
are securing the country around Ojo
San Domingo, but that no more strug-
glers have been encountered.
Believe Twenty-Five Dead.
OF the eighty-four officers and men
comprising Troops c and K, one Of
ficer and forty-three men have re-
turned to the American lines. An
reached Sabinas and to have wandered
north from there. The prisoners held
at Chihuahua City are said to number
seventeen.
This leaves twenty-five men to be
accounted for. Practically all of these
latter are believed to have been killed.
Pershing sent Funston information
taken from the notebook found on
the body of Capt Charles Boyd, com
mander of the American expedition
The book contained carbon copies of
the note sent to the Mexican jefe at
Carrizal, informing him that the
American troops were on a peaceful
mission and asking permission to pass
through the town, and of the note sent
20 fA11 hi Rf he rA1 ~,
to go on to Villa Ahumada. The orig
inal note from Gen. Felix Gomez, Car
rama commander, inviting Boyd
command into the town for a confer
ence, also was found. Pershing COM
mented that this note looks like
treachery."
big Stuff Starts" in Few Days.
Army officials at Fort Sam Houston
characterize the present situation as
the ''gravest in history" of the two
countries. They expressed their opin-
ion that it would be only two or three
days before the big stuff starts"
Funston has wired General Wood
and other department commanders di-
rections as to the destinations of the
national guard, but refused to make
them public. Persons arriving here
from Laredo say the reason for the
evacuation of Nuevo Laredo by the
Carranza garrison was the refusal of
1eicTdI MANN TO let forage cross the
lines. The Mexicans were forced to
move farther into the interior to get
feed for their horses
Consul Bonney and Vice Consul
Dickinson of San Luis Potosi called on
Funston for a conference shortly be-
fore noon. They would give no in
timation of the nature of their talk.
Seize Carranza Cartridges.
A baggage coach full of small arms
and ammunition, consigned to the Car
rama government, was seized at Eagle
Pass. There were 100000 rounds in
this consignment. The consignment
was stored in the arsenal at Fort Sam
Houston