Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-06-20
u. S. TROOPS WIN
FIGHT IN JUAREz
American Soldiers Cross Rio
Grande Ten Minutes After
Order Is Given.
YANKS TAKE MANYPRISONERS
Colonel HadseIPs Men Open General
Engagement With Artillery Fire
Rebels Driven From Race Track
Cavalry Charges.


troops and Mexican rebels under
Villa fought a general engagement at
the race track to the south Of Juarez
shortly after two o'clock Monday
morning. The Americans were vic
torious. Villas rebels were driven
from the race track by the American
rifle and machine-gun fire. Many pris-
oners were taken by the American cav
airy, which surrounded the rebels or
the east and southeast, according to
an official announcement issued by the
army headquarters here.
At 2 :O5 in the morning Colonel Had
sells troops opened the general en-
gagement with artillery fire against
the Villistas in the old federal
trenches to the east and southeast of
Juarez.
An American soldier shot and killed
a Mexican Sniper who fred on him
from an adobe house. Orders have
been given for the American soldiers
to shoot all snipers. A woman and an
other Mexican on the roof with the
sniper were captured.
Private Richard Casey, Eighty-sec-
ond artillery, was shot through the
chest; Private Alfred Friedman of the
Twenty-fourth infantry was shot in
the leg, and Sergt. r. M. Buckles of
| the Ninth engineers was struck in the
thigh by snipers' bullets prior to the
crossing of the American troops. This
increases the American casualties to
two killed and seven wounded.
Having advanced through Juarez
with the armored motor trucks in the
vanguard, the Twenty-fourth infan-
try column halted between Juarez and
the race track at 80 in the morning
to permit the federal infantry to retire
into the town.
One American soldier is known to
have been killed thus far in the fight
ing. He was a gunner in the Eighty
second artillery. He was struck by
a bullet sent BY a Mexican sniper.
Immediately after this Brig. Gen. ].
B. Erwin ordered % American sharp
shooters to return the fire and drive
out the Mexican snipers.
1t was shortly after this that the
American artillery opened.
The decision of the Americans to
| take part in the fighting was the re-
| suit of the killing of a man and a
woman in Ell Paso by shots from the
rebel forces, who for several days
have been attempting to capture
| Juarez from the CarranZistaS.
Others shots have fallen into Ell
| Paso and the American army officers
| decided to move into Mexican soil to
stop it.
1t was at IL o'clock at night that
the order to advance across the river
was given, and in less than ten min
utes more than 5000 American troops
were on Mexican soil.
The Fourth battalion of the Twen-
ty-fourth infantry (negroes), United
States regulars, crossed the interna-
tional bridge to Juarez at II o'clock.
The Fifth and Seventh cavalry (reg-
ulars) crossed the international boun-
Diary at three fords to the east of Ell
Paso.
"A battalion of the Eighty-second ar
tillery crossed the Rio Grande to the
east of the ~stockyards.
Col. Selah r. HI. Tompkins of the
Seventh cavalry was in command OF
the cavalry brigade which crossed at
the fords and Colonel Hadsell was in
command of the infantry. Two ar
mored motorcars rumbled over the
bridge at 1885 p. M, going to Juarez.
BY midnight colored soldiers of the
Twenty-fourth infantry were patrol
| ling the principal streets of Juarez,
All Americans without special per-
mits were taken to the bridge and
ordered to the American side.
The Intervention of the Americans
in the battle followed a day of sue
cess for Villa. Martin Lopez, his
| chief lieutenant, was inside the city
soon after six o'clock, leading his
men in desperate house-to-house fight
ing.
Col. Francisco Del Arco assumed
| command of the federal forces in the
field opposing the villa assault after
| Colonel Escobar was wounded, and
Immediately cleared the buildings and
railroad cars along the Mexico North
western and Mexican Central rail-
roads of Villa rebels.
At dusk the Villa forces were
again where they were when they
started their attack at 4:40 in after
noon-south of the agricultural col
lege and north of the race track.