The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-08
Little Boy Killed Was Deaf and Dumb and Was Mur- dered Because He Could Not Answer Questions
HEROIC STAND IN TRAIL ADOBE CABIN
 MADE BY TROOPERS
Driven From Shelter Only by Fire-One Soldier Is Missing and Three Killed. Kidnapped Men Killed

Alpine, Tex, May 7.-viI1a bandits, Grande Friday night and sweeping 15 miles inland American soil, raided the little settlement of Glenn Springs and attacked detachment of Ameri- can cavalry. consisting of nine men of Troop A, the Fourteenth cavalry.
 Three troopers and little 1O-year- old boy were killed, two cayaIrymen were wounded and another is missing. He is believed to be prisoner of the bandits. who are now fleeing south ward into Coahuila. Mexico.
 Two American citizens, J. Deemcr and a man named Compton, according to reports received here. were carried across the Rio Grande and reports have it that their throats were cut. A posse Of 50 citizens of Marathon to- nigbt nre in pursuit ofath~ yfilistas.
 The missing trooper is Private Roscoe Tyree. The little boy was the son of Compton He was deaf and dumb and bandits are thought to have killed him because he could not answer their ques tions
 TWO TROOPERS WOUNDED
 The two wounded troopers, Privates J. Birck and Frank Defree, were brought here this afternoon badly wounded. Bricks body was filled with small brass pieces of tacks fired from a shotgun. Defree was burned about the head and shoulders.
 In a little adobe house, nine cavalry men made their fight for life against the 70 or more Villista bandits at Glenn Springs. A hail of shot poured for more than two hours into the single window of the adobe house. but the cavalrymen kept up a steady rifle fire in defiant answer. Then the Mexican leader ordered fireballs to be thrown on the roof, thickly thatched with candalaria.
 The blazing weed tortured the soldiers below and burnt their heads and bodies. Smashing the door, the troopers broke for the open. Two were shot and killed as they fled. One is missing and it is believed he is dead. Another was killed as he tried to climb through a window.
 According to the story brought here, the Mexican bandits first attacked a store and one or two houses in Bouquil- las, where they made Deemer and Compton prisoners and then sped 15 miles northward to make their attack on Glenn Springs, which is fringed by rugged hills. At Glenn Springs they wrecked wax factory belonging to William Ellis, his store and residence, besides one or two other small build- ings.
 DEATH TO GRINGOES
 At o30 Thursday evening the main body of 50 to 70 mounted Mexican bandits forded the Rio Grande at Bouquillas and swept into the little senttlement shout ing: Death to the gringoeslp The ban dits footed the store of J. Deemer and set it on fire. Deemer and clerk named Compton were seized and bound. The bandits packed their loot on their horses and after setting one or two small frame houses ablaze. galloped away northward.
 Heading toward Marathon, Tex, the bandits in their night ride came upon Glenn Springs. where a small detach- ment of nine cavalrymen under command of Sergeant Smyth of Troop A, Four teenth cavalry. was stationed.
 The Mexicans appeared suddenly on]
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