Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-24
CAPITAL STIRRED AS NEVER BEFORE
 BY NEWS OF CLASH
President Reused From Bed To Learn Tragic Fate Of Tenth's Troopers. Army Officers See War
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WASHINGTON, June 23.-General Pershing's report indicating that the American cavalry command engaged at Carrizal was the object of treach erous attack by Carranza soldiers and virtually was wiped out3 has stirred ! Washington tonight with deeper feeling than has been aroused by any other development in the series that has brought the two countries to the { brink of war.
 While no official would make a statement to indicate the probable course of the United States should the report prove true, there were many grim evidences that tension had been greatly increased. President Wilson, who had retired before the news reached Washington was awak- ened, and talked with Secretary Bak- CT over the telephone. At the War Department it was apparently credit ed for the first time the story that the Mexican troops had been guilty of an act which could lead only to the most serious consequences.
 Late tonight the Pershing report told of in news despatches had not reached the War Department official ly. A report received from the com mander in Mexico. however, said that seven negro soldiers who had held the horses of the others and had become separated from them in the fight had struggled into the field base at Colo mia Dublan and repeated the version of the incident told of in messages from General Pershing received earl fer in the day.
 The dispatch tonight said that at the time it was written there had been no definite information indicat- ing the number of American casual ties. General Scott, chief of staff. in giving out the dispatch emphasized that failure to get in touch with sur viyors of the first could not in itself be accepted as indicating that the command had been annihilated. He pointed out that CarriZal was sixty miles from the American base and that three or four days would be on ly reasonable time for a troops to travel that distance over the broken country of northern Mexico. The clash occurred only two days ago.
 General Scott indicated that War Department did not expect any fur ther report from General Pershing until relief troops sent out after the battle had returned to camp. It was suggested by several officials that General Pershing's failure to forward promptly all the reports brought to him by the stragglers reaching his camp was due to the fact that ordi- narily little credence is placed by ar my officers in stories coming from such sources. There still was hope that an official version of what hap pened and how it came to happen would be obtainable soon from re- sponsible officers of the engaged troops Secretary Baker did not re turn to the department tonight after the new official and unofficial dis patches regarding the incident had come in. Army officers however. kept in constant telephone communi- cation with him at his home and kept him advised fully It was nearly mid night when the secretary called the White House and told officials there he wanted to talk with President, WI son. .
 The conversation between the Pres ident and his secretary of war lasted several minutes and afterward Mir. Wilson remained up half an hour waiting for possible receipt of other details of developments which the Secretary had told him.