Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-05-11

ftelegraphc communication with General
Carranza and II was understood he was
acquainting the first chief with the new
developments and suggesting action that
would have to be taken.
Practically all the details of the raid
reaching hero to-day came TO General
! Funston from Major o. r. Meyer of
the 14th cavalry. stationed at Maria.
According to Major Meyer. the bandits,
about % in number, crossed the Rio
Grande from the Mexican side late Fri
day afternoon at a point south of Ter
lingua, Texas, where there is guard
of about 60 men.
From there they proceeded eastward
through the desolate reaches OF the
Big Bend country over an old wagon
road toward Glenn Springs, a small
ranch settlement
A few miles west OF Glenn Springs, an
American patrol of eight men from Troop
A of the 18th cavalry under command of
| Sergeant Smith, was stationed. The ban
dts began an attack on the little temper
airy shack in which the eight troopers
were quartered before the single sentinel
could raise an alarm. The time was about
eleven o'clock.
| The attackers rushed toward the shack.
shouting viva Villa" and "Viva Car
ranza." They were met by a sturdy de-
Tense from the half asleep Americans.
however, and failed in their evident at .
tempt to make quick capture of the pa
troll guard.
i From eleven O'Clock that night until
after two o'clock in the morning, Sergean:
Smith fought the Mexicans from the shell
ter Of the patrol house. In that time
three of his men, Privates Cohen, Coloe.
and Rogers. had been killed and he and
all the rest were wounded. Then the
shack caught fire.
1t was impossible to stay longer so
Sergeant Smith ordered "a retreat. Two
of his men were so badly wounded it
was necessary to carry them.
Smith and the other men not only
succeeded in removing the badly
wounded; they took out the bodies of
the three dead men and carried them
to a place of safety
| There was a motor truck attached to
the camp. The dead and dangerously
wounded men were loaded in to this
and sent north toward Marathon, a
station on the Southern Pacific. So miles
north, in the hope that medical aid
might be secured for the wounded.
ono man left with the truck This
| left Smith and two others to engage
the bandits. They retired to the low
hills and fought from behind rocks and
mounds of gravel
While this was going on, ranchmen
of the vicinity had heard the shoot =
ing and had hurried to the scene. AL
though few in number. they formed
an adequate reinforcement With the
badly wounded and dead disposed of,
Sergeant Smith and his men joined in
the fighting again and about four
o'clock. as dawn neared, the MeXi-
cans retreated.
This was five hours after the fight
ing began. The bandits rode toward
the east until they came to Glenn
Springs. There they looted a general
store and killed the -year-old son
OF G. c. Compton. Then they pro-
ceeded to Boquillas, a few miles north
of the Rio Grande, where they seized
supplies and forage and rode on again
Their next stop was Doemers. Here
according to the reports received in
El Paso, they despoled the general
store of John Deemers Then they
crossed back into Mexico taking with
them Deemers and Louis Coy, mar
in his employ.
1t is believed that Decmers and Coy
must have been killed after being taker
to the Mexican side of the Rio Grande