The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-06-27

deeply filled with water. The SER
geant held Adair in his arms, his
face above the water until he died,
the wounded officer reviving only
long enough to whisper orders to
leave him and finish the mission.
Capt. Morey said that Capt. Boyd
warned the men before the fight that
| they were advancing into the great
est danger. He reiterated that the
Carranza soldiers opened fire first
from their machine-gun trench and
asserted that almost Immediately af-
| terward a detachment of the MeXi-
cans circled to the rear and drove
off numbers of the American horses,
which a few men had been left to
hold while the cavalry men dismount-
ed in line of skirmish.
Capt. Morey was brought in by
troops of the Eleventh Cavalry sent
to rescue Carrizal survivors after
having led a handful of starving,
painting troopers forty miles over a
sunbaked desert to relief.
Made Brave Fight.
The force Of the Tenth United
States cavalry, under Captain Char
les T. Boyd, succeeded in breaking
thru the line of the Mexican force
under General Felix Gomez at Carri-
Zal, according to a message from
General Persing to General Funston.
Captain Boyd's men of troop C.
took the ditch in which the front line
of Mexican troops were intrenched
and charged thru into the town of
Carrizal. Troop L, under Capt. Lewis
Morey, charged with c. Troop, but
were outflanked and forced to take
refuge in an adobe house. They at
least had a chance to defend them
selves from cover.
This news came to General Perish
ing by courier from Major John M.
jenkins, commanding a squadron of
the relief expedition out from Colon
ia Dublan. Major Jenkins also an
nounced that he had found five
members of C. Troop of the Tenth
cavalry and one member of the H
Troop at San Luis ranch. They also
were horseholders, as were the other
stragglers who have reported.
General Pershing reported that
the troops under Capt. Boyd and
Capt. showed the greatest courage
and exhibited the most sterling
fighting qualities.
No mention of the Mexican caval-
ry charge reported by the stragglers
was made in the Pershing report,
but the fact that the Americans were
able to advance and break thru the
Mexican line after the first attack is
believed to give some indication that
the charge was checked.
According to stories told by the
five men found at San Luis ranch,
after the Mexicans had opened fire,
with several machine guns, Captain
Boyd dismounted and formed his
men in line of skirmishes. Capt. Boyd
with c Troop, led the first line and
Captain Morey with X Troop the
right. They advanced by rushes to-
ward the ditch $50 yards distant
which sheltered the main force of
the Mexicans and from which the
machine guns were spraying their
ranks with lead.
Making every shot of their own
wild rush, putting the Mexicans to
fight and capturing several machine
guns.
IN Ine lIIldl TuSH OH LHe elIIeHCHSu
MeXicans, Captain Boyd fell dead,
shot thru the body. Without check
ing their advance C Troop, led by
Lieutenant Adair, dashed on after
the fleeing Mexicans into the town.
That was the last seen Of them by
the men found at San Lnis ranch.
they found themselves in
danger of capture from Mexicans ap-
preaching from the rear and Gener-
al Pershing's report gives no further
details of the state of Adair and his
men.
Captain Morey was shot thru the
shoulder while advancing with K
troop on the irrigation ditch. His
men, however, were outflanked by a
superior force of Mexicans and were
forced to take shelter in an abode
house. When at last seen by the
stragglers they. We're returning a
spirited fire, thru windows and loop
holes punched in the abode walls, to
the MeXicans surrounding their shell
ter.