The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-06-27
AMERICANS PUT
VILLA TO FLIGHT
Cavalry Return With Seven Cap
tured ViIIistas and 100 Horses
After Running Attack.
FIFTY REBELS ARE KILLED.
Cavalry Reluctantly Gives Up Pursuit
After Chasing Villlstas 35 Miles.
Fleeing Mexicans Raked With
Accurate Artillery Fire.

Ell Paso, Tex-All the American
troops that participated in the punt
tive expedition against the Villa rebels
in and near Juarez are billeted In
barracks and camps on the American
side after "a hours of campaigning.
Seven ragged Mexican prisoners
were herded toward the Fort Bliss
stockade by a detachment of the Fifth
Cavalry, while another cavalry de-
tachment drove a herd of 100 cap
tured Mexican ponies to the remount
station.
1t was officially stated at Fort Bliss
that approximately so Villa followers
were killed. One American of the
Seventh Cavalry, Corporal Chigas,
was shot through the lung by Next
can rebel
After crossing the Rio Grande dur
ing the night, the cavalry column, sup
ported by battalion of the Eighty
second Artillery, advanced and at day
break began a scouting tour. Captur-
ing the seven prisoners before reach
ing the Villa camp. the cavalry was
enabled to proceed, dismounted, to
within a short distance of the adobe
headquarters, where fighting was be-
gun by the Americans, standing in
water up to their knees.
Four Villa men were killed in the
first assault The rest of the rebel
force numbering approximately 200
men, mounted and fled toward the
southwest, with the American cavalry
troops in pursuit. The rebels scat
tered into small bands. the Fifth Cav
airy pursuing one, hand 80 miles.
The Seventh Cavalry deployed to
the southeast and pursued another
band. Troops A and G executed a
mounted pistol charge from the sad
die and killed a number of the rebels.
The artillery placed shrapnel di-
rectly over the heads of the fleeing
Villa force, and many were killed.
After the pursuit the cavalry forces
formed a junction and returned to the
American side of the river, accompa-
MED by the artillery and Seventh En-
gineers.
The seven Mexican prisoners pro-
fessed to be either farmers in the
valley or Carranza soldiers, none adj
hitting having been with Villa.
On the return the cavalry brigade
and artillery crossed near Ysleta,
Tex, II miles southeast of here.
After the rebels had been defeated
by the American troops in sharp en-
gagement at the Juarez race track in
the early morning, the Villistas took
flight, American cavalrymen pursuing.
Fragmentary reports of the fighting
came in from time to time. A report
was received at military headquarters
at 10 20 a. m. that fighting was in
progress between United States cav
airy under the command of Col S. r.
H. Tompkins and a Villa detachment
in the vicinity of San Lorenzo, op-
pOsite Ysleta.
Artillery fire against the Villa rebel
at 10: 80 a. IN. with the Second Bat
talon of the Eighty-second Field Ar
tillery firing shrapnel bursts, which
could be seen plainly from the river.
The artillery fire was six miles from
Juarez in the vicinity of the cavalry
fighting near San Lorenzo.
At II o'clock the entire Second Cav
airy Brigade, composed of the Seventh
and Fifth Cavalry regiments, could be
seen plainly about eight miles south
and west of Juarez, in hot pursuit of
the Villa forces which were engaged
at San Lorenzo.
BY noon the two columns were only
family visible in the dust screen, and
it was impossible to tell whether the
American troops were in contact with
the fleeing Villa riders.