The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-07-06

but a little TO the right | plugged
the horse first shot. Down he went!
The general went down with him.
got him just as he was scrambling to
his feet He just doubled all up then
doubled all down again, slow like, to
| the sand.
THAT Mexican officer won't have
any more ideas, said to the corporal.
] The corporal did not answer. And
his head wasn't wobbling any more.
But the sand was all red there"
Sergeant Page, the ranking Ameri-
can trooper among the prisoners.
with Privates Stone and Williams,
were still fighting half an hour after
The general engagement ended They
were made prisoners only after hard
resistance. Page said
A Desperate Fight
we got a mile and a half away
from the scene Of the big scrap, and
Il looked as though we were going 10
W aUlt " eeNapts iouA We Ntlb ia
plain sight out there on the desert
and dismounted. Pretty soon along
came a big detachment of Mexicans.
We managed to drop into a hole in
the desert Then we waited. Am
munition was low. We let 'em get to
within 200 yards.
Then we began opening up. Mexi-
cans toppled off ponies faster than
we could count them. guess each
one Of US got an average Of 10 men
apiece That's because We had some
cover.
The Mexicans did not know what
they were up against for a good many
minutes Then they fell back.
But we were practically trapped
anyway. We knew that the minute
we rose out of that depression they
would be on 10 US. So, while they
were out OF range we just waited.
Soon we saw EN- riding far of to the
right and to the left; saw both col
umns close in, and saw all Of them,
fan fashion, start riding up to us,
I'VE picked a few more off. Then |
we held up a sombrero as a signal Of I.
surrender. A Mexican held up his /.
hat. Then we stood up They did not |
shoot. We held up our arms Our /
guns we're hot in the sand; our am.
munition belts were empty. Soon as
we walked out into the open without |
our rifles the whole outfit Of Mexi- /
cans galloped at US, surrounded US and /
started US walking the mile and half /
back to Carrizal. There they took .
everything we had"
Robbed OF His Money.
Corporal William Hague, Troop c, /
Tenth Cavalry, who was robbed Of
s2O7 by Carranza soldiers, worried
more while he was in the chihuahua
penitentiary about the recovery of his
money than he did about his own fate
He said:
They took that gold away from
me at Carrizal right there after we
quit fighting Then that started me
10 fighting again. But they we're too
many for US and | was afraid il !
did not let them take It they would
kill all prisoners. But even il don't
get that gold back / had some pay
ment.
81 got six Mexicans that | know Of.
/ was holding a sharpshooter's posi-
tlon about 60 yards from a Mexican
trench I was fiat on the sand, but
had dug into # with my hands until
my body was afforded some cover.
There were eight Mexicans in the
trench When the fight was over only
two came out Aud those are the two
that took my coin.
slleneed Machine Guns.
"'rhey stole my S4OO, my half carat
ring and my 17-ieweled
Gibson said, and when we
were passing through villa Ahumada
and Chihuahua City the people threw
stones and coal at US"
They got S9035 from me, but they
fixed my arm up all right" Jones
added.
II was day and a half before they
looked at my shoulder" asserted
the most seriously wound
ed Then they didn't dress it very
we'll"
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