Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-08-25

would pitch face forward into 1t with
out support.
Il understand the noncommissioned
officer left Adair wounded in the ditch
at Adair's order and went forward to
Carrlzal. Then, looking back, he saw
his officer with his eyes glazing, his
head webbing against the side of the
ditch, and he ran back and remained
with him till death came.
Caught in Angle Of Fire.
BOYD was killed when his troop
made the rush for the trench in which
Carranzistas had the machine guns.
Just how he died don't know"
Caught in a right angle of fire.
Morey's small detachment, as previ-
Gus dispatches have related, was
forced to retire. Mounts had been
sent to the rear, and every man. in
Guiding the leader. was afOOt.
Alternately lying fiat on their faces
and then rising and fighting desperate
ly, the little band Unanswered to the
rear. 1t continued to withdraw until
Morey. with one Of the corporals. who
was bleeding profusely from the
shoulder and who wore BOyd's hat,
found themselves with seven men be-
hind an adobe wall near dry hole
which offered protection from the bull
lets, but not from the sun.
Three hundred yards to the south
were the Carranzistas, some mount
ed. some afoot. advancing, firing and
yelling. They had become embold-
ened by the Americans retirement
Walked as II Dazed.
"When l got behind that wall" re-
sumed Morey in matter-Of-fact tone,
81 tod the men l proposed to stay
there. Those who wished to go. told
to CO."
-Four men. including one wounded
man, elected to make the desperate
attempt to escape. and MOrey told
how he saw them ascend the hill
which stretched away to the north.
81 never saw men act so strange
| ly," ne said. They didn't run or
seem to exert themselves; they SIM
ply moved away as if daZed up the
hill. and by SO doing they probably
saved us. We who remained behind
the vail saw the Carranzista horse
men riding to Outflank theri. The
Carranzistas apparently thW. -ht they
had us behind the wall safely. ana
bent all their efforts on getting the
four who were trying to escape. We
were unmOlested."
With the enemy beating the cOun
try on all sides. Morey and three black
troopers lay in the hole behind the
wall all that long. waterless day. with
the sun beating sQuarely down OF
them.
Night came. and with II came 9
welcome drop in temperature. an6
| the stars. The wounded officer and
men started trailing west on the first
leg of the 70-mile journey to Perish
ing'S line.
Too Weak to Walk.
MOrey was so weak that he could
only walk hundred yards or so at o
stretch. and as the night wore on anC
he became weaker and weaker he con
cluJed that IT was humanity impossible
for him to go farther.
So he first requested-and wher
they refused-he ordered the thres
negro troopers to leave him.
II reasoned" he said today. "tha
they could go on and / couldn't, 81
l made them CO."
The three went on. Morey, hi.
wounds bandaged as best they coult
be. lay down on the desert and slept
The stars were still out, but dawn wa.
breaking when he awoke. strengthened
by he rest. He forced himself to hi.
feet and staggered on In the direction
in which he thought lay Santo Domin
go ranch, eight miles from Carrizal
and the point where the command
had bivouacked the night before tn,
tighr.
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