Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-08-15 | Page 1 | Barbed Wire Sown by Utah Militia

Barbed Wire ire Sown By Utah Militia I a It Delayed Reds for Time but I Blues Left Officers Officers' Equipment Equipment Equip Equip- ment Behind c SA OAN QiN FRANCISCO AUK Scouts H.-Scouts of 4 the Hie invading ned fled army which began ean toa today In an earliest earnest its advance I on n the k defenses of or San Francisco were I rifle I In shot tonIght O of tho the retreat retreat- BIu outposts who camped In tt San Juan pass ti To the nT relief reller of ot tho the retreating Blues I ues came canie Colonel Cornelius Garde- Garde nor nc ner marching down the Misson road I ot of the ie peninsula with men to 9 Colma I A The Blue column of ot skirmishers of at Utah I Jars militiamen and 0 under command O of or Colonel Bowen Dowen j U. U S. S A A. VA Were routed ing Jn early carly this mornIng morn morn- 7 f h from their camp near Salinas by the Red fled forces der General Robert nobort I f f xv an i of ot the tho California national 4 1 1 guard luard who occupied Salinas with his I main Thain force torce after a short skirmish To capture the lne Blue camp the thc I f t Reds Reds n had to work worl nil all night building p a bridge across the tho Salinas river and antI f digging barbed wire entanglements t 1 out of ot the tho river bed J Tho The bridge brige ha lied had p been been dynamited by the retreating Blues In half halt an hours hour's fighting righting the Reds carried the tho position nn and so hurriedly hold did the Blues decamp that they loft behind them several eral boxes of ot officers officers' equipment In falling back on n the thc main Blue command however O er tho outlying g de do- do outposts outpost have havo worried tho In In- Continued on Pas Pago C Ii Column 3 BARBED WIRE MiRE SOWN BY UTAH MILITIA Continued from Page Pa-go One dynamiting bridges brIdgeR carrying c of off captives In brisk raids and generally gen gen- generally y harassing the advance of ot tho the larger force torce Approximately soldiers the Blue army of or defense are arc encamped at Colma tonight resting from the thc ex exertion exertion exertion ex- ex of ot their first day days day's s march from San Francisco The men arc are regulars and stood the twenty mile march well Colonel Gardener hu has hus received no word of or the tho whereabouts of the Red army of ot Invasion but he Is hi expecting to hear tomorrow from Colonel W W. H H. C. C Bowen Dowen in command of nearl nearly I 1000 Blue troops slowly retreating toward San Jose to Join the main arm army Colonel Gardener tonight ht to resume tomorrow th the march toward San Jose The Tho plan Is to camp tomorrow tomor tomor- row night near Redwood City San Jose probably will be reached sonIc some time Friday afternoon but word of ot dire necessity for haste hasto from the force under Colonel Bowen BOWon might rr result in a forced m march