Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-26
SURVIVOR OF TENTH
TELLS STORY OF FIGHT

COLUMBUS, ". NJ, June os.-"They
shot HI out Of US at Carrizai," said
Private Sam Harris, Troop X, Tenth
Cavalry, who reached here to-day to
be treated for an ugly Mauser bullet
wound in his neck.
The soldier was in the thick of the
fight His story is the first story
brought to tho border by an individual.
He told how 700 Mexican Indians
opened fire with hidden machine guns
on II handful of American troopers,
moving them down with the precision
of a scythe.
They shot HI out OF u.s. they cut
us tn pieces" he kept repeating. Har
ris told how Captain Boyd and Captain
Morcy, with Lieutenant Adair, had rid
den out with Troops c and * at day
break on the hunt for marauders. He
touched on the meeting between Cap
tain Boyd and the Mexican General
Gomez. out on the fiat. open field.
He remembered watching Gomez
return TO his command and give tho
signal TO fire. Then. as he told of the
battle scene. the trooper placed his
hands over his eyes, as though to shut
out n repetition Of the haunting vision.
Captain Boyd gave ny the order to
deploy in skirmsh formation" he said.
LAS the order to dismount came the
MeXicanS opened fire nll along the line.
was unslinEing my leg from over
nay horse when the rattle OF q machine
gun started from behind perfect cover.
The horses bolted. Most of them
hit back for the ranch. twelve miles
away. We Hoped TO tho ground AS
fast as the Almighty would let us, and
began pumping our rifles and auto
MATES.
There were trees over where the
McXicanS were fighting, and u fence
along slight rise of the edge Of
road. There was u ditch over there.
too. The McXicans wcre we'll covered
We We're out on the bare fiat sprawied
on our stomachs under the hot sun in
plain view of the enemy.
1t was murder
FORGETS EVERYTHING EUT
GUN AND AMMUNITION
81 forgot everything but my gun and
my ammunition | was trying to see
I how fast could load pick my target,
fire and eject 1t was like running
small machinery on picccwork
Within half an hour OF the begin
ming OF the fight the Mexicans started
Ranking US. We could see the dust
:
and running with their bellies low.
we'll of t" the right and left in groups
There were fully zoo of them. and
they swarmcd all over the place The
bulk of THO force KEEP, behind some
sort of shelter. We had no shelter.
There was real satisfaction in
knowing We killed our share Of the
MeNicans. II WAS tough work
when the fight began, I remember
waiting for "A head to appear so that
| could shoot at IL. | was shaking like
a leaf with the excitement of my first
engagement. but I tried to keen cool
You wait kept telling myself
! You wait till you see something TO
shoot at and did, Pretty soon, per-
/ haps about half a ininu,c--It src,nad
/ like an hour saw Il Mexican head
{ poke out from behind Il fence most over
/ by the road. | got a bcnd on IT, thcn
let go with my rifle. Zowic, How TINT
Mexican jumped into the air and fIop-
! ped. ] think ] killed him all right
! He did not move again. ] sure felt
good with that first shot 'BulIy., 7
/ shouted. got most ten nlonc. / picle-
ed them carefully before fired. and
( saw them drop when let fiy. NV
/ guess Is that a good 100 Mcxicans were
left there in the mesquite and along
/ the fence and ditch.
''Hut that machine gun got us. SMUT,
sput. sputter" 1t kept rattiing all the
time. and every rattle piowed into
I uS.
PAYS STRICT ATTENTION
TO MITIIODICAL KILLING
The alkaH dust wna kicked up all
around me. with that machine gun
shifting steadily. The fellow running
( IL was a good one. He was taking his
sob as scrious business. which dc.
] mandcd strict attention TO dltx~.thn