Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-05-03 | Page 6 | U. S. Troopers Fight Villistas Hand to Hand

u. u S. S TROOPERS FIGHT AS HAND HAMD TO HAND HAMO HANDFIELD FIELD HEADQUARTERS April 29 By motor courier to Columbus N. N M. M May 3 There 3 There was man to man fighting and some of the Americans went up the tile mountainside with knives in their teeth during Cot Col George A. A Dodds Dodd's battle with on April 22 at It was the devils devil's own play play- ground This was Colonel Dodds Dodd's description de do- of the terrain of this battie battle bat bat- tle tie in southwestern Chihuahua among towering mountains where bandits bandits bandits ban ban- sought refuge For two hours Dodds Dodd's troops of the Seventh cavalry cavalry E E H I and L L L- fought from an immense hollow with bandits on three sides charging deliberately deliberately de de- over marked ground with bullet puffs in the dust all aU around their feet where the Mexicans had their exact range They account for forat forat forat at least fifty bandits killed or wounded against art aol American loss of two dead and three wounded One Mexican woman was wounded by ban ban-