The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-24
Gen. Funston Receives AnX-
iOuSIy Awaited Message.
Of 81 Men in Engagement, 81
Are Still Missing.
PROBABLY FORTY ARE DEAD
Relief Expedition However May
Find Some.
All % Who Returned, Horse
Holders Not in Fray.
WAS A COLD BLOODED KILLING
First IntimatiOn of Fight Was
Crack of Machine Gun.
During Farley Mexicans Sur
rounded Troopers.

San Antonio June 24.-Complete
DISCRIMINATION of the two troops that
were engaged in disastrous combat
Wednesday morning at Carrizal with
Cara MA troops and the practical an
Inhalation of those actually in the
fight was indicated in a report from
General Pershing by General Funston
today
One packer and eight enlisted men
of Troop c and seven men of Troop
X. were picked up yesterday morning
by Lieutenant Meyer near Santa Maria
All were horse-holders The stories
these men told we're almost identical
TO those told by the other stragglers
that reached the transmission lines
yesterday.
No Word From Relief Troops
General Pershing. in his report to-
day. referred to the number of those
who previously had returnds TO the
American lines as eleven. although in
previous dispatches he fixed the num-
her at seven With those who were
rescued by Lieutnant Meyer the total
number of those who had returned
was twenty-seVen. The total number
of men in the two troops was learned
today to have been eighty-four. Cen
eral Pershing, offering summary of
his information and explaining that
his conclusions were based on such in
formation as he had secured from the
stra ggIers and from press reports,
called attention to the indications that
there were fifty-seven missing and
that press REPORTS indicated fourteen
Of these were dead and forty-three
were prisoners. General PerShing does
not account in his report for the num-
Der wounded. but appeared to assume
that all those wounded had been cap
tured.
General Pershing reported that he
had received no word from the COM
mander of the two squa6rons of the
Eleventh cavalry that had been sent
forward to rescue the remnant of the
Tenth. All those brought In by Lieu
tenant Meyer were horse holders and
like those who came into camp yes
terday were not actually in the fight
They had had difficulty, they said. in
handling the horses when the furious
ma chine gun and rifle fire began and
retreated before the conclusion of the
engagement
Bring Back % Horses.
They had cared for such horses as
they could round up after they got be-
yond range of the fire. the full mum
Der of mounts in their possession
when encountered by Lieutenant
Meyer being twenty five.
The troopers told their stories be-
fore they had re-entered the camp
and had an opportunity to talk witt
those who had preceded them The
accounts they gave Lieutenant Never
and that they afterwards related to
officers at General Pershing's head
quarters were said to have borne out
IN all essential details those previously
told.
They said they saw Gen. Felix Co
mez and his aide ride forward to par
ley with Captain Boyd and later saw
him move toward the flank of the
Mexican troops that had begun clos
ing in on the American force. Accord
ing to their story the first intimatior
anyone had that hostilities were de-
termined upon was the outburst OF
machine gun fire. They corroborated
the accounts that said it was not until
then that Captain Boyd gave the com
mand for his men to disnount and re-
turn the fire The Mexicans durins
the pariey had crowded forward and
had assumed such positions that wher
they attacked they were in position tc
sweep with killing fire the American
line standing exposed in the open
Hope to Find Injured.
Officers at General FunSton's head
quarters seemed convinced, after
studying General Pershing's latest re
port that all of the two troops tha1
would be found now would be wound
ed. An analysis of the figures secured
indicated that the number of Woun &c
must be in excess of those that es-
capped injury and that. therefore, the
battered remnant could not have
moved far from the scene of the fight
ing.
Admission of these facts increased
their apprehension as to the fate O
the troopers. Their greatest hope to
day was that nothing worse had be
fallen them and that they would b,
there when the relief force from tn,
Eleventh finally got to them
Although no news, official or other
wise had been received today that in
dicated the Mexicans had followed III
their work of Wednesday some of tn
officers professed keen anxiety t,
learn whether they had attacked
again the little broken and woundeC