Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-06-23
American Soldiers Are
Prisoners at chihuahua
City by. TrcvinO.
u. S. CAPTAIN AND
LIEUTENANT KILLED
Pershing Has Great Ma
chine Ready to Strike
Blow at Border Lines.
CITY. June %.

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" The seventeen American sol
diers. negro troopers of the Tenth
cavalry, who We're captured III
the battle at Carriza', were
brought here today with Lem II.
Spillsbury, a Mormon scou5 EN-
ployed by General j. j. Pershing,
and were interued,
Spillsbury said that Captain
Charles 7. Boyd commando TIE
Americans and with Lieutenant
Henry r. Adait was among the
killed.
A Captain Moore, who was
with the American detachment,
was wounded in the shoulder, bnt
escaped.
In announcing this afternoon a
story of the battle which he said
SpillSbury told him, General
Jacjnto Trevino, commando of
the military district of the north
east announced that anv tiine
and at any place the Americans
move other than toward the Dor
Ger, he will comply to tho letter
With his superiOr's orders aud
will attack them as Genera Felix
Gomez did at Carrizal
Saw Dead Officers.
General Trevino said all diplo-
matte negotiations are outside
his sphere. Spillsbury's story as
announced by Trevino was to the
effect that 76 negroes comprising
troop II Of the Tenth, Captains
Boyd and Moore, Lieutenant
Adair and himself composed the
American detachment that en-
countered the Mexicans.
He saw on the field the dead
bodies of Boyd and Adair and at
least eleven of the negroes.
SAN ANTONIO. Texas. June "a
While General Funston anxiously
awaited "A report today from General
Pershng that would bear out thu
American version of the Carrizaf
fight he and his staff worked at high
pressure perfecting the big militar,
machine on the border for the stern
work 1t might be called on at any
minute to begin. Two reports from
General Pershing came during tho
day, but when they were sent no sur.
vivor of the little detachment than
faced the killing machine gun fire of
the Mexican troops had returned to
the American lines. General Persh-
ing's only information was that which
had been sent to him from the United
states and that was the report that
emanated from Mexican sources a,
Washington. supplemented with the
few details two Americans passing
through Ahumada had been able to
learn.
No Special Orders.
General Funston remained fixed in |
his determination that until the Of |
ficial American version had been re- |
ceived no special orders will be givel |
the border commanders, and then no, |
unless the facts established beyond a |
doubt that the Mexicans had been the |
aggressors. 1t was intiniated that |
even in that case there would be con-
sidered another phase OF the ques- |
tion, especially the orders under |
which the Mexican commander had |
acted.
Two squadrons of the Eleventh cav
airy were sent out by General Per- |
shing early today to get into touch |
with the remnant OF tioop II of the !
Tenth cavalry, but when lie filed his /
latest report no WORT had come from |
the relief force. That It would en- |
counter the battered troop II late to-
day or tonight was regarded as prob |
able. although 1t was realized that /
most of the travelling would have to !
be done by the two squadrons II /
was pointed out that he troop was
returning with it's wounded. accord
Ing to the official Mexican version
and that 50 handicapped little prog
ress could he made. The distance was
calculated by army men today as be-
ing almost rinet,' miles instead of
sixty when fu'l allowance WAS made j.
for all the little curves and turns in
the trail
Manifests Surprise.
General Pershing manifested sur
prise at the report thot the Officers
OF the troops had precipitat ted the en-
eagement He told General Funston
in his report that all of his men had
received the most positive orders not
to do anything that might precip:tate
an engagement.
Reports of routine character
were received from all border points,
but none showed marked increase in
thk activity by any of the bandits
all Alg the Rio Grande. but almost all
told Of activity on the part of the de
facto government troops and of the
Mexican population in all border
towns. The tendency to a general