The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1916-06-30
MEXICAN TROOPS FIRED
FIRST CARRIZAL SHOTS
Troopers of the Tenth United States
Cavalry Were Advansing in Battle
Formation When Attacked.

San Antonio, Texas, June 25.-Capt.
Lewis Sydney Morey, commander of
K troop of the Tenth cavalry, who, it
was believed, died of loss of blood and
thirst in desert two miles from the
scene of the encounter between Ameri-
can and Mexican troops at Carrizal,
has made his way back safe to the
American lines, according to a wire
less message received by his wife to-
night and Transmitted to Gen. Funston.
Mrs. Morey, who now is at Austin,
Texas, repeated the message to Gen.
Funston over the telephone. 1t read:
Somewhere in Mexico. Am back
on the line with two men; safe"
The message was signed Sydney"
| That, according to Mrs .Morey, was
the manner in which Capt Morey
signed all communications to her.
A letter from Capt. Morey, written
while hiding in a hole near the scene
of the fight at Carrizal after his forces
had been broken and scattered, reach
ed Gen. Funston through Gen. PERISH
ing earlier tonight. In that letter Capt.
Morey had described how, fearing an
ambush, the American troops which
Capt. Chas. T. Boyd commanded, had
advanced in battle formation on the
Mexicans who had come out from
Carrizal during a parley over permis-
sion for the Americans to pass
through the town; how the Mexicans
had opened fire and how the remain
ing Americans after the first success
advance had been forced to retreat and
scatter, each for himself.
Army officers at headquarters here
hope that the return of Capt. Morey
will serve to provide the missing links
in the story of the engagement at
Carrizal and determine more COM
pletely the exact fate of each member
of the little accommodating expedition.
How Capt. Morey managed to make
his way to the American column,
distance of over 80 miles, is not known
here.
Nothing to confirm rumors of
clash between Pershing's men anG
Carranza troops was received by Gen.
Funston tonight and all was reported
quiet along the border.
-Four companies of engineers and
two companies of coast artillery ar
rived at Fort Sam Houston within the
last few days and two additional COM
panies of engineers, bringing with
them the remainder of the pontoon
equipment sent from Washington bar
racks are expected to arrive early to-
morrow. Forty carloads of pontoon
equipment already has been received
here.
An armored motor truck tested out
here and said to have been found i'm.
perious to rifle fire has been assigned
to the Nineteenth infantry, six COM
panies of which are stationed here.
1t is reported in army circles that the
order for aeroplanes given eastern
manufacturers comprises at least 200
machines.
Capt. Morey wrote the letter at 9:15
a. m. June 21, while hiding in hole
about 1000 yards from the scene of
the battle. Capt. Morey was wounded
and had another wounded man and
three unwounded troopers with him.
The three unwounded men were
picked up by d detachment under
Lieut.. Henry A. Meyers, Jr., of the
Tenth cavalry, and the letter brought
to Gen. Pershing today.
MOrey Left to Die.
Capt. Morey was left to die upon
the desert from thirst and his wounds.
The men abandoned him at his own
order. The three unwounded men had
carried him, according to their stories
to Lieut.. Meyers, from the hole where
he had hidden and made their way
nearly two miles from the battlefield.
They were forced to stop and Capt.
Morey, believing himself hopelessly
They also thought him about to die
from loss of blood and thirst and
obeyed.
The stories of the rescued men to
Lieut.. Meyes were very vague about
the details of the fight, according to
Gen. Pershing's report to Gen. Fun
ston.
Capt. Morey's letter told of the join
ing of Troop G under Capt. Charles
T. Boyd and Troop X under his own
command at Ojo Santo Domingo June
20 and the advance together towards
Carrizal June 21.
He arrived in an open field mile
from Carrizal at $3.50 a. m. There
they halted and Capt. Boyd sent a
courier into Carrizal asking permis-
sionof Gen. Felix Gomez to enter the
town, saying he was going to Villa
Ahumada. Gomez replied that he
would not be allowed to enter the
town but might make detour around
it.
Fearing that they were about to be
trannnd hu the MaYinans whn had