The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-24

San Antonio, June a4-The tive troops of the Tenth cavalry, under Capt. Charles T. Boyd, practically were wiped out by the attack of Mex lean forces under General Gomez at Carrizal June 21, according te indica- tions given in fragmentary repor' received by General Funston from General Pershing.
 General Pershing's message stated that seven survivors in all, including those who arrived Thursday night have reached the main column. All were enlisted men. The report did not say whether there were non-comm1s stoned officers among them.
 According to the stories of the sur vivors as outlined in General Persh- ing's report. 8 mounted force of Mexi- cans made a charge from the flank a the conclusion of a barley between Captain Boyd and General Gomez, at the same time that a machine gun opened fire from the front as General Gomez reached his lines.
 Captain Boyd had ordered his men opened fire, and the combined effect of the Mexican charge, the machine gun fire and the rifle fire from the Mexican garrison of CarriKa1, which almost had surrounded the little American force under cover of the barley sought by General Gomez to
  be allowed to pass through the town. stampeded the horses. No details were made known to General Persh- ing as to whether the Mexican charge was checked
 With their mounts gone, caught without means of escape, rfnged about on three sides with the fire of an over whe1Tning force. the fate of the little detachment Is believed by officers here to have been sealed, It is feared that only the most stupendous luck backed by desperate valor, could have extrtoated Captain Boyd's men from | the trap, Reports from Mexican forces plac- ed the number of killed. including two ported that 17 were taken captive into Ch1huahua City,
 The accepted percentage of wound ed to those killed in modern warfare ! would place the wounded at from 3e | to 40 at the lowest estimate. The strength. of the two troops, c and K ! is not known here, but it is estimated that they could not exceed 130 men allowing for those sick and on de, vivors reported as arriving at the
 main column. the number of those f accounted for, at least speculativel5r is pitifu1ly small.
 The report from General Pershins stated that the stories of the surviv' l ors were confused and did not con form in all details with the repor Emade by the first arrivals from the battlefield.
 General Persh1ng reported that ther was a scene of wild confusion wheI l the Mexicans opened fire and thei1
 cavalry charged The -stragglers ap parent1y were cut off in an effort O. l Captain Boyd to extricate his meI
 from the jaws of the trap which wa closing on his command, or fled be l fore the outcome of the battle could | be learned.
 l General Pershing, according to hi lreport, had received no word from th' | two sQuadrons of the Eleventh cav
 airy, which had been sent to rescu the remnants of Captain Boyd's ex ! petition. He stated that he had takel no measures to support the squadron of the Eleventh.
 General Funston said last nigh that he had received no news regard ing the report that General Bell hal crossed the border at Fl Paso an Ithat no confirmation had been receiv ed of rumors of reported bandit raid near Hachita, N. M, and Brownsville