The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-06
RECOVER BODIES
Bring Back Nine of Killed In
Carrizal Battle.
Stripped of Uniforms, Eight In
TERED in One Grave.
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FOURTEEN TROOPERS MISSING
Bodies. Probably Cremated or
Food for Wolves.
Capt. Boyd's and Lieut.. Adair's
Among Those Returned.

of Capt. Charles T.. BOYD, Lieut..
Henry Adair and seven troopers OF the
Tenth cavalry, killed at Carrizai, were
brought to Ell Paso today at $3.50 a. m:
Only~ the bodies OF two officers and
Private Dewitt Rucker have peen
identified.
Eight of the Americans were ex-
humed from a single grave, the unoer-
takers who brought back the pooles
said.
The dead had been gathered from
the field of battle and cast into
ditch. This was then filled up.
Captain Boyd, Lieutenant Adar
and six troopers stripped OF their UNI
forms were mixed Unfortunately In
the dirt.
The body of the ninth trooper was
| located two miles distant from the
others. He had been wounded and
apparently had dragged himself away
to die in the gravelly waste beyond
the town.
| General Bell had not expected the
bodies to be delivered SO early in the
morning, and the Eighth cavalry
which had been drilled from Fort
| Bliss to act as an escort, was not on
hand. An impromptu guard was
| formed, however, from soldiers of the
| Seventh infantry encamped near the
bridge. Part of these marched be-
side the car while the remainder stood
at attention as it rolled off the bridge,
| upon American soil.
! Word was Immediately sent to Fort
Bliss and the Eighth cavalry was
started cityward.
Give Them Military Funeral.
The nine American troopers will re-
ceive military honOrS in a funeral cor
| tege through the streets of Ell Paso
late this afternoon. Each flag draped
casket will be carried in a motor am
| hn1anca- hneido VII will II
der and officer pail bearers. The
bodies will then be taken to an under
takers establishment to await instruc-
| tons from relatives.
Under orders from General Bell:
| the Eighth Cavalry regiment will
meet the train bearing the bodies to
the American side his afternoon
Scenes in sharp contrast to those
OF week ago, when the Carrizal pri-
soners were brought from Chihuah ua
City and turned over to Gen. George
Bell, Jr-, marked the return of the
American dead. In Juarez the event
was scarcely noticed, while in Ell Paso
only few hundred persons, quiet and
subdued, replaced the cheering throng
that greeted the returning troops.
Home" in Box Car.
Scores who thronged the interna-
| tfonal bridge to do honor for the Car
| rial heroes did not know that a
switch engine crossed to the American
| que AlOIII JudToz, ndullnS an old DOX
car, was bringing the remains home"
The nine caskets were placed in the
freight car by the Carranza military
authorities in Juarez and the car was
sealed TO prevent any demonstration.
On the American side the caskets
were placed aboard motor trucks and
each draped with the national colors.
Later a detachment of the Eighth cav
airy was to escort the trucks to an
unoertaker's parlor to be prepared for
burial
Anti-American Sentiment Strong.
The commission which returned
with the bodies reported anti-Ameri-
can feeling in the CarrizaI district still
very bitter. The Carranza commander
there did not allow the American dead
} 10 pc brought into Carrizal. He placed
an armed guard over the remains and
Carranza soldiers accompanied the
commission on the special train to the
border.
The fate of the fourteen American
soldiers missing from the Carrizal
hight is a mystery. 1t is believed their
bodies were either cremated by the
Carranza soldiers or were left lying
In the desert, the prey of wolves.
The bodies of Captain Boyd, Lieu
tenant Adair and several of the troop
ers will be shipped to their homes for
burial. Those unclaimed probably
will be inferred in Arlington cemetery,
Washington, D. c.
Examination of the bodies showed
that Captain Boyd was shot through
the right eye and that Lieutenant
Adair's death resulted from a wound
IN the breast.
Frazee's home was Canon City,
Colo. Private J. E. Bailey, Bookers-
vile, KY, was the seriously wounded
, man Those slightly wounded were:
r. d. Putnam, Jeffersonton, Va; Corp.
: Oscar j. Johnson. La Crosse, Wis
Corp. J. A. CLOWN, Detroit, Mich
Drummer G. E Merriwether, Louis
ville,. KY: Private w F. johnson,
Shelby, Mich; Private C. o. Oates
Seattle; Private F. R. Paine, Mime
apolis.