The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-06-29
CAPT. MOREYTELLs
STORY OF ESCAPE
U. S. Officer, Wounded at Carrl-
zaI, Relates Experience.
Is I'll lr,1On1 lMOT IL
CRAwLED TO RANCH HOUSE
Declares Gomez Ordered Attack on
Americans After Captain Boyd =
Asked Permission to
Enter Town ~

Punitive EXPEDITION, Wear SaShS
Grandes. Mex, via radio to Columbus,
\. W., June 2S.-Capt. Lewis =. Morey,
Troop X, Tenth cavalry, the sole ON
Ger TO survive the Carrizal massacre,
sat on the edge of a bunk in a
matched hut at headquarters, here ana
told an attentive group of fellow Off
GERS, who gathered 10 congratulate
him as one. from the grave, Intimate
details of the first real tragedy of this
| campaign. .r.'..,'...-. d. nv.
Mercy had spent the night in the
hospital after his arrival here in
motor car. Today his blood-stained
shirt removed, and his body cleansed
and refreshed, he was able 10 move
about the camp with his left shoulder.
through which a Mauser bullet had
scared its way, swathed in bandages
confers With Pershino. .
He first held conference with GEN
eral Pershing. And then he visited
with his regiment. -.
Telling his story he spoke haltlngly,>
without exaggeration, and with admir-
| able restraint and modesty.. i.
His voice was almost emotionless,'
| rising in tone and pitch only. when he
| told Of going without water from six
o'clock on the morning of the 21st I'M
| til four O'Clock the following day,
| wounded and withsthe blistering, scar
ing rays of a Mexican sun beating
down on him. .,HE -'.. l.t ~. ,
He added little to the fight except
| to say that Boyd and Lieut. Harry
Adair died like soldiers and gentle
| men. He told also that the Carran-
zistas began hOstilities by opening up
with machine guns, and that in the
! firing the enemy seemed to be cen-
| tering his fire on the white officers
of the command, of which there We're
only three. When the battle was over
there was but one. .'" 81
Caught in Angle Of Fire.
Boyd was killed when his troop
! made the rush for the trench in which
Carranzstas had the machine guns.
/ Just how he died j don't know"
Caught in right angle of fire.
| MOrey's small detachment, as previous
dispatches have related, was forced
| TO retire. 49,. - a
Walked as II Dazed.
i when / got behind that wall" re-
| Sumed MOrey, Il told the men / pro
posed to stay there, Those who wished
to 90, | told to CO." .~-
II never saw men act so strange
ly.r he 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
j saved us. We who remained behind
the wall saw the Carranzista horse
men riding to outfiank them"
With the enemy beating the cOun'
try on all sides, Morey and three black
troopers lay in the hole behind the
wall. The wounded officer and men
started trailing west on the first leg
of the 70-mile journey to Pershing'S
line. -... . ...
Too Weak to Walk.
/ MOrey was so weak. he concluded
that it was humanity impossible fol
him to go farther. -...
so he first requested-and when
they refused-he ordered the three ne
gro troopers to leave him.
II reasoned" he said, that they
could go on and l couldn't, so l made
them CO." D-
The three went on. Morey, his
wounds, bandaged as best they. c0uit
be, lay down on the desert and slept
The stars were still out, but dawn was
breaking when he invoke, strengthened
by the rest. 81. g..
Travels Without Compass.
He travelled composites, having
given his compass to the three mel
; who left him, along with a Telegram
to be sent to his wife and dispatches
to Pershing.
About 4 80 in the morning, as near
ly as he could judge 1t, he made thu
ranch house and found it deserted
and desolate. Manager J. 7. McCab'
had fed, as had the Chinese cook. ii,
; rinsed his parched mouth and dranl
ssparingly. B. ~
Near the ranch he found five troop
ers of the Tenth, stragglers from tn
| confused fight, and gathering then
: together he prepared to march on
!. They headed for San Luis ranch, 3
miles to the east.
Mule Team a Godsend.
After ,ten miles, accomplished y
Il feyerish relays they encountered tn
ranch manager, Mccabe, with mul
! termed 1t. 20 %
team. This was godsend, as More
All piled in the wagon and rode t
San Luis ranch, where they arrived a
midnight Saturday, joining there wit
J. Major Howze's squadron of Eleventh
; ravalrymen, which had been sent on
!, by General Pershing to find them.
With the Howe squadron was
motor truck train. and In u true
sIorey aud his men headed for head
{ quarters. Thirty-tiye miles from thi
, camp Lieut.. Jnmes Collins, Genera
pershing's aid, met The trucks Wit
-four autos, and Marey, transferred /
Z, the snaIier car reached here at dtlsl