Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-30
NEeRo TROOPERS VERSION
 OF THE cARRIzAL FIGHT


 NEeRo TROOPERS VERSION
 OF THE cARRlzAt FIGHT One Asserts that Wounded Americans
 Were Killed After the Battle.
 Fl Paso. June 29.-In the inrnigra- ton station here the negro troopers told their stories of the Carrizal fight and their experience saf Villa Ahuma;- da and Chihuahua City.
 William p. GihsDn troop New York city: Archie Jones, K troop, of Washington. D. C.. and Luther Alex anders c troop Columbia, Tenn, the. latter two being slightly wounded in the arm. were emphatic in their state- ments that the Mexicans shot the wounded Americans on the field at Carriza1
 Those who could speak little Eng fish bragged about shooting o5r boys while we were going through Villa AhumadalR Jones said Several boYs lying just beyond me at CarrfzI were not fatally wounded but when went past them they were dead with several bullet wounds in their bodies'
 They stole my $400, my half-carat diamond ring and my 17-iewel watch z Gibson said, and when we were psss- ing through Villa Ahumada and Cizi- huahua City the people threw stones
 They got $90.s5 from me, but they fixed my arm up all right ? Jones add 1t was day and half before they looked at my shoulder. asserted AL exander. the most seriously wounded. Then they didn't dress it very Welis' l Gibson was the trooper who silenced l the two Carranzisfa machine guns. ac- cordin@ to the stories told by his fel- low soldiers. Gibson was at Captain
 Baszdss side when the officer, with a 3 bullet through his shoulder ran to the I rear for water and then returned to I the fighting line to meet his death
 The captain said to me God, if could only stop those machine guns I Gibson said. 1T told him I'd try tc DOT those fellows so dropped fla under a little tree and, being a sharp
 was operating the gun from the cen. ter Pretty soon he raised his heaf 4 from the trench where the gun was. missed him but in minute he looked
 Hp again and got him Then I turn. led around and 4otztfie fAilow who wa
 seratiug on the left fians He di5r
 take much precaution and got hin on the first shot. Apparently the,
 had only two machine gun operators I for the guns were not worked an.
 more. Later they told me had pu
 the guns out of order
 In Gully in Center of Field s1 Alexander told the story of an hon and a half in which he lay in gull z in the center of the Carriza4 battle E field, watching for opportunities | tpfel of Mexican soldiers as the showed themselves from behind
 screen of shr1bbery
 don't know just how got int that ditch he said, mbut got there all right and then when locke around knew my best bet was t
 stay there, because if l tried to ge
 out they would shoot me sure as
 ran. But it got mighty tiresome theT 2 without doing anything so just too
 those boys off whenever they shove I themselves. think got five befoE
 they found out where the sllootin
 was coming from and came over an : got me. They came at me about fol :. ty of them, shooting all the time, bt I none of them hit me
 Desperate Stand Made by Mercy. Fred Williams told of the desperai [ fstand made by Captain Mercy and 2 handful of his men in a little adof lhouse to the right of the battlefiel s to which they were forced to retrea He said there were but half doze
 men in the house and excepting Car g tain Mercy, who was wounded, all lze] g up desultory fighting from the vii
 
 y tempted to bind the wounds of the r officer. Finally, however. they saw q llargee force of Mexicans appFoachiI a the house. Captain Morey then orde 2 ed them to leave it, to scatter ar I, make every attempt to escape. Wi s Hams said he and Felix Page al Q James Stokes left the others at u # door and made their way through u q mesquite for about mile and a ha # when they were surrounded by lar {. detachment of Mexican troops al d forced to surrender.
 George M Chaplin. Troop c, y Morristown, Pa, got nearly to Juar g before being captured. He was wi s the band that followed Lieutena
 Adair into the town in the teeth of ne fire from doorways and roofs. Fore le to retreat, he stumbled into the irl re gation ditch where the lieutenant " n killed With Corporal Bigstaff a rs Private ssmith he then took refuge se the brush. What became Of his [ er companions he does not know. but 7s Mexican who followed him for neas ae two hours he killed with a pistol th the station just below Villa Aaumu .e he secreted himself on a freight tra lg but was discovered by a bFakem U near Guzman and delivered to the e.
 ranza authorities.
 is Five Hid In Little oasis. r John Coleman escaped into the d
 ert where, after wandering throug CT out the night, he found four otl n troopers in the morning The i've 1T in little oasis he said. throughl nr that day and in the night in attem an ing to make their way back to Gi lrt ersl parSI,fr,sgss lines. wandered | 1d Villa Ahu1nafa, where they were SC IT. ed by the Carranza forces and la n sent to join the IT original captives " MEXICAN PAPERS SAY
 R. AMERICANS ARE EvAcUATH he Declare That General Trevino se- Keep Them Of Mexican Soil. gal