South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-06-27


was water in the ditch. and even
while dying. Adair would pitch
face forward into it without sup
port.
How They Died.
4 understand the noncommis-
stoned officer left Adair wounded in
the ditch at Adair's order and went
| forward TO Carrizal Then. looking
back. he saw his officer with his
eyes blazing. his head webbing
! against the side ditch. and he ran
back and remained with him till
death came.
Boyd was killed when his troop
made the rush for the trench in
which Carranzistas had the machine
guns. Just how he died L don't
know"
Caught in a right angle OF fire.
] Morey's small detachment, as pre-
! viOus dispatches have related, was
forced TO retire. Mounts had been
sent to the rear and every man. in
| Guiding the leader. was afOot. AL
| ternately lying fat on their bellies
and then rising and fighting des-
| perately. the little band maneuver-
ed to the rear. II continued 10 with
draw until MOrey. with one of The
| corpOrals who was bleeding pro-
fusely from the shoulder and who
wore Boyd's hat. found themselves
with seven men behind an adobe
wall near a dry hole which offered
protection from the bullets, but not
from the sun.
Men Attempt Escape.
Three hundred yards 10 the south
| were the Carranzistas, some mount
| ed, some afoot, advancing, firing and
| yelling. They had become embold-
ened by the Americans retirement
When l got behind that WALL
resumed Morey in a matter Of fact
! tone. II told the men / proposed 10
stay there. Those who wished 70 so,
1 told to go"
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 10 the north.
Il never saw men act so strange
| u" he said. They didn't run or
seem 10 exert themselves; they
simply moved away as if dazed up
the hill, and by so doing they prob
! ably saved US. We who remained
/ behind the wall saw the Carran-
! zista horsemen riding TO outhank
| them. The Carranzistas apparently
! thought they had us behind the wall
| safely. and bent all their efforts on
J 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 be
hind the wall all that long. waterless
! day, with the sun beating squarely
down on them. Night came, and
with il came a welcome drop in tenn
perature and the stars. The wounded
officer and men started trailing west
il the first leg of the 70-mile jour
ney TO Pershing's line.
Morey was so weak that he could
| only walk a hundred yards or so at
a stretch. and as the night wore on
and he became weaker and weaker
| he concluded that it was humanity
impossible for him to go further.
So he first requested-and when
they refused-he ordered the three
Negro troopers to leave him.
Il reasoned" he said today. that
they could go on and I couldn't, so
made them go"
! Co.'s to Ranch.
The three went on, MOrey with
his wounds bandaged as best they
could be. lay down in the desert and
slept. The stars were still out. but
| dawn was breaking when he awOke,
| strengthened by the rest. He forced
| himself 20 his feet and staggered on
/ in the direction in which he thought
| lay Santo Domingo ranch, eight
/ n lies from Carrizal. and the point
where the command had bivOuacked
the night before the fight. He trav-
] eled composites, having given his
compass TO the three men who left
him, along with a telegram TO be
sent 10 his wife and dispatches 10
! Pershing.
About 4:30 o'clock in the morn
| ing. as nearly as he could judge il.
he made the ranch house and found
| il deserted and desolate. Mgr. J. T.
! McCabe had fled, as had the Chinese
cook.
Morey sprawled face downward in
/ a hole near the ranch house in
which there was a little brackish
ater. He rinsed his parched
mouth and drank sparingly. Then
rejuvenated, he staggered into the
adobe building and found, as if by
miracle. a quantity OF beeksteak,
coffee in a pot on the stove, and
corn bread. AS he ate he gained
strength in body and spirit.
Finds Five Men.
His meal concluded he began an
| investigation Of his surroundings.
Near the ranch he found five troop
ers Of the 10th. stragglers from the
confused fight, and gathering them
! together he prepared TO march on.
The jerked beef in the ranch house
| they slowed in their pockets, and
/ those who carried canteens filled
| them Morey had no canteen, so he
/ carried an old baking powder can.
Il had learned my lesson" he said.
and had determined never 10 be
! without water again
After considering the sun a while.