Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-07-07 | Page 7 | Final Tribute Paid Heroes of Carrizal

f ilL TRIBUTE Pi IE1SBFBII Brief Funeral Service Read Over Bodies of Boyd, Adair, 7 Troopers. EL PASO. Tex.. July 6. EI Paso today to-day paid a solemn, silent tribute to nine flag-covered coffins containing the bodies of nine American soldiers who gave their lives for their country at Carrlzal. Exhumed from a single grave In an Irrigation Ir-rigation ditch on the battlefield, into which they had been thrown stripped of their clothing, the bodies were brought to the border by a party of American undertakers. un-dertakers. Only a small crowd was at the American station to meet the train, it having brought the bodies back home earlier than had been expected. j From the time the death train crossed ' the Rio Grande the spirit of mourning seemed to pervade the air. Flags on most of the public buildings fluttered at half-mast. half-mast. Motorists muffled their en2ines as If to respect the dead. Even the Mexican Mexi-can hawkers seemed to catch the air of quiet respect and were less clamorous than usual as they made their way through the crowds selling a black- draped national shield to be worn In the coat lapel. fT When the nine caskets were taken from the car and placed in waiting ambulances, r every sight-seer stood, hat In hand, until they had been covered with flags and a military band had sounded the last note of "Nearer. My God. to Thee." Headed by the Eighth cavalrv band, playing the Chopin funeral march, and an escort of a squadron of cavalry, the cortege moved slowly toward the city. Beside each ambulance marched six pallbearers pall-bearers and behind each was led a riderless rider-less horse, the stirrups and arms reversed. re-versed. General Bell, his staff, the twenty-three survivors of Carrlzal recently released at Chihuahua City and the two W other squadrons of the Eighth cavalry made up the remainder of the procession. proces-sion. As the cortege made its way Into the city, the crowd which had gathered to do honor to the memory of the two officers offi-cers and seven troopers was steadily augmented. Voices were lowered as the ambulances passed, and not until the brief funeral service had been read at the chapel of the undertaking rooms by Chaplain W. W". Brander of "the Eighth cavalry did El Paso resume its normal aspect. General Bell announced ttcht that efforts ef-forts to id en t if j' any of rie bodies other than those of Captain Charles T. Boyd, Lieutenant Henry Adair and Private Dewiti Rucker had been unsuccessful. He said, however, that he hoped that identification identi-fication of some of them may yet be made. Otherwise they will be "buried In Arlington National cemetery. The identified identi-fied bodies are being held to' await the disposition of relatives. General Bell announced tonight that the body of Captain Boyd would be taken to Arlington cemetery for burial, while that of Lieutenant Adair will he taken to his home In Portland, Ore. He asserted It will be necessary to compare the unidentified un-identified troopers' bodies with descriptions descrip-tions on file in the offices of the war department in Washington before positive identification can be made.