Arizona republican., 1916-03-10

NeteInllllet upon itS Il uledIS Oi Sttiil-
 Playas. N NJ. who was shot to death with W. T. Richie. proprietor of the hotel, also was incinerated
 The Mexicans set the hoiei on fire together with a number of other buildings and posted snipers to pick off Americans as they fled.
 Mrs. M. James was shot and killed ir the doorway of another hotel as s'ie was entering with her sister. Mrs. Janes fell dying over the body of C. C. Miller, who had been driven from his drug store across the street. Her sister. a little girl escaped uniniured. Mrs James husband was wounded. Mrs. T. r. Ryan. wife of the cap 1 tain of troop |, and Captain Rudolph i F.. Smyser of troop II with Mrs Smy- 1 ser and her little children had narr0w 1 escapes from the bandits The Ryan
 house fronts Iegimental headquarters and the ditch employed ir Villa $ ad vance The house was riddled with 1 bullets as Mrs Ryan lay in bed in | the front room.
 1 Mrs. Ryan Was in line with a win dow facing the ditch in wLich Villa opened the attack. Bullets shattered , the glass and perforated her clothing
 on a chair.
 Fred Griffin, private cf troop K Was
 on sentry duty in front of the head iquarters and opened fire on party 1 of McXicans attacking the quarters of l Lieutenant John ?. Lucas. command irg thc machine gun troop of the Thirteenth cavalry. 6;riffen fell mortallv wounded under s Volley If bullets. but killed two MeXicaps and
 then crawled t. the side of the Ryan horne. Mrs. Ryan meanwhile had 1 risen and ran around the houre under fire of Mexic5ns 10 an adobe garage. A party of bandits WAS standing iahout jiriffen. Sne opened the garage
 when a Mexican graspeG her arm and demanded where she was going. She answered calmly that she WAS going into the building to get q motor gar. The Mexican let her go and during lthe fighting in the camp she remained
 ir the automobile unhurt
 The Smyser home north of the track
 was almost surrounded by bandits be- fore q shot was fired. Captain Smy- ser heard someone tell the bandits that an American army officer and his fam fly lived there. With his wife and
 children he left the house at the rear
 and reached the barn as the bandits
 broke in the front door.
 They footed the house and were pre- Earing to set fire to the barn when the American forces opened fire. Captain , Smyser joined his troops in time to par ticipate in the battle in which the Mex , jeans finally were driven from the town r Captain F. G. Turner and his wife , were in an adobe house just north oi the railroad tracks. They remained in . side until the troops in camp got into faction and scattered the bandits. . | Villa dropped his personal papers as , he fled. A note found among these i, I evidently a transcript of an order is
 sued just before the attack, read: "kil , all the gringoes.'
 , Villa, according to reliable informa
 tion obtained by Colonel Slocum, at
 tackled with 1900 men, leaving 100t tacross the border. Twenty of his of
 ficers. sent here Tuesday to spy ou
 i
 American cavalry troops with head
 ] quarters here were scattered for mile! , along the border on patrol dnty in ac
 cordance with instructions.
 Two troops stationed at Gibson , lranch fifteen miles west, did not ge into the action. Three troops were il
 camp here with an effective force Q Iabout 250 men. Informed of this am
 lassured by his spies that certain ait , would be given by some of the Mex U ican residents, Villa started his advanc
 from Boca Grande river late yesterday
 The first intimation of the approacl Il came when Private Griffin on sentr s duty saw a number of MeXicans aroun'
 the quarters of Lieutenant John I \ Lucas. Griffin opened fire and, at tn ' cost of his life. drew attention of tn
 bandits for sufficient time to permi
 Lucas to reach camp and turn out hi ; machine gun troop.
 Fl Paso undertakers reached here to !. night with caskets for the America lcivilan and soldier dead. The bodie n of the MeXicans were burned. Twenty seven bodies were so disposed of to day. while q number of their wounde
 |werc treated at the hospital of tn $ Thirteenth cavalry, the army surgeon I being assisted in their work by wome I tnlrses who worked all day. Some Q e the Villa wounded were mere boys u Army officers whose quarters Wer
 lattacked bore testimony that residen MeXicans of the town pointed out l. n ithe bandits the houses occupied b.