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Show THE HER ALD-- R EPUBLIC AN, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MAY 7, 1916 MEXICO IN QUE PIERC N G DA FFTIT ANDIT VILLA AND H : SEARCH IS PURSUED OVER MOUNTAINS AND CREVASSE 9 : iX-.i- f :v f' - ; ';; Si - i y f VS- , - :X 1 t ftdk - ? b v 4 tent .::: Pick Up Trail of Villa and His Band and low it Through Tortuous Paths in an Inhospitable Country Troops Guarding Wagon Trail in the Formless Desert of Chihuahua Find Little to Relieve the Tedium Save an Occasional Welcome Word From God Country and Uncle Sam's Fol- HEADQUARTERS, May 3, FIELDmotor courier to Columbus, A cavalry lieutenant, 6. N. M.t May with a face sunburned the color of n brin-in- s ripe cherry, arrived here today the story of adventures and fight- vS-- .Jus RUNNING FIGHTS ARE FEATURES OF CHASE -:- - - :":.-:- lis, I - Am yyfi ' ' ' ' im.m- ,- I f&f'At &&&- v, til , - .V- -:- his personal escort through San Jose del Sitio. Hoping to cut off Villa's trail out of the mountains, the cavalry men rode south through territory never traversed by Carranzistas, to Balleaza. V 'f 1 "I i Z 1 r4 v Before reaching that place they passed La Joya, where a band of ing by the column which penetrated through Villistas scurried out of town ahead farthest south in the Villa chase, fif- of them, scattering in a dozen differteen milc3 farther than even Tomp- ent trails. , rode A which the of nearly kins at Parral, and Eleventh, leading Troop one the American squads, of of the in was pursuing miles until it 500 sight man last of a fugitive the surprised Dnxanjjo state line on Chihuahua's gronpas, he . was about to enter the southern border. brush on top of a ridge. An officer Thi3 wa3 the picked squadron of shouted to him in Spanish to surrenW & , - vW WW'' t Mexican The der. and ran the L- - Howze of the ElevRobert Maj. Americans fired three shots. Each enth cavalry-- . They rode trails where shot took effect, killing the soldier, no Carranzista soldier had ever been, who to be Captain Silva, a where the natives asserted no horse notedproved Villista. Back in town, meancould po and where Villistas laid amwhile, Silva 's personal effects had buscades of sinister cunning but al- been discovered in his house. While ways ineffective. officers were in the act of reading an into Santa Cruz went up the side of sus Del Rios, Cruz Dominguez and It was April 7 when, three miles order issued to him by Villa from the ravine afoot, clinging with one Manuel Baca, who was killed the folsouth of Cincpiite, the picked squad- Chihuahua City last June, Silva s big hand to the tail of his horse. Another lowing Sunday after the. fight by a ron came on an abandoned wagon of silver-braide-d somberero and news of soldier, an orderly, became so ab Mexican. the prairie sebooner type, from which his death were brought in. sorbed in the fighting that he rushed j Among them were followers of Ju- the canvas cover had been ripped. Only One Man Left. up to a lieutenant exclaiming: "Here, ; lio Acosta and General Beltran. They Tiio wagon was in perfectly good conThe Americans found just one man lieutenant, hold my horse so 1 can were remnants of all the best knowd dition. The Americans were able to account left in LaJoya when they arrived. He shoot." The lieutenant at that mo- Viila commanders' veterans, and that of reports was in charge of the church and wa3 ment kept stationary by other duties, time the least known band of Villisf.r this only in the light held the horse until the orderly could tas' remaining bad men whose nerve tliey had received that Villa himself,a carefully remaining within the edifice. take had not been shaken by defeats at Coa few shots. Half an hour out of LaJoya, the wounded, had ridden in this wagon icek before them over this trail. They American pack train was fired into The column proceeded after this lumbus, Guerrero and Agua4.30Calientes. Dodd's Saturday afternoon at had been assured that the wagon over by the men who had fled the place. fight to beyond Casita, until they men rim of on the southern and that were at which a could from Two mules were killed. The assailhill, arriving they turned, that Villa fainted look which hills the the in off the into the state of Durango. From ants were heard running through the forming cup the canvas was thereupon ripped on town Temochic saw of lies the rear brushes to get away when the Amer- this hill the men Raw an aviator circle to make the famous white litter southward and land in Durango. He guard of Villistas riding out of town. which Villa was said to have traveled, icans opened fire. At C.20 p. m., entering a canyon was Lieut. I. A. Rader, the man who At the head of them they saw- the cavried by Ms men. main body of the bandits waiting beThev saw for themselves confirma flanked by two bills, each the height went farthest south in the pursuit. was The aviator rose, returning to hind rocks to give battle. A machine hardly of a twenty-stor- y tion of the report that it building, the column worth while to right tho overturned ran into its first serious fight. Eleven Casita, where he delivered General gun was placed to sweep this ridge wairon. because the trails ahead were men, the advance guard, rode into the Pershing's orders to Major Howzee while the Americans rode down into impassable to wheeled vehicles. So canyon a few seconds in advance of after the Parral fight. The column i the cup in pursuit. They dismounted in town, advancing on foot with rifles almost straigni . souin, oer the main force. Trees along rocky turned nortlnvest to join Tompkins. they strucK Cas-vnere was left ! IJader's at the precipitous ban tJorja trail, streams at the canvon's mouth had ready, led by Troop L and aeroplane their abandoned near the railroad embankment. wameu ov two guiues. their native guides been marked for range finders in adthe While still in town, a trooper was horses to proceed afoot, assuring vance by the Villistas. While rags The machine could not fly farther, foolish Americanos' ' that the trail tied to the branches indicated the ex- and its skeleton, stripped of valuable hit and mortally wounded. The shot eonld never be made by the big cav- act height of the men on horseback parts by the Americans, lie near the camo from the flank from a cave in a The as line, a monument marking mouutain overlooking leniocuic. out alry horses from the states. they trotted in. The Villistas had Durango walked men the the of the American dash. imof a big adobe chimney the troops cavalry walked, apex guides practiced in advance shooting at and so did the precious horses, climb- aginary Americans as bullet marks puhed a suijiur, the only one caught at Termochic. r Fight surmen the boulder that 111 the place. ing every showed. Of the men who rode into n There was fighting mounted. the town Troop L advanced but were hit Beyond five the canyon first, some of the Americans went up to within They reached San Bojonras. where only one seriously. He was Private and range of the crests above. mountainside with knives in their They crossed the range in short they received the only report on their Kirby, of the Eleventh, who resides the entire trip that Villa's wound was not near'Chattanooga, Tenn. His wound teeth during Col. George A. Dodd's rushes, lying down and firing, then with Villistas 011 April 22 at serious. Hearsay news at San Borja wa3 one battle bullet advancing a few yards. Colonel Dodd the entering peculiar, Termochic. bad him wounded in the leg, but ear and emerging from tho other, with his staff rode through this zone "It was the devil's own play- i of astride a mule. At 1 o'clock that aft- leaving so little trace that the surlire while bullets fell within a yard ernoon, however, they struck at Casa geon at fir3t was puzzled to know why grounds." This was Colonel Dodd's or two of every .man until they description of the terrain of this bat- reached a small- knoll beyond the Colorado, ten miles south of San he was dead. tle in southwestern Chihuahua, among town. From here Dodd directed the Borja, the most direct circumstantial men hit were scratched in The other wheretowering mountains, where 150 ban- fight. Another machine gun was evidence of the fugitive's the forehead, one shot in the leg, one dits sought refuge. abouts. brought up close to play on the force with a slight flesh .wound, and the the two Dodd's hours of For troops of at the. crest in front of the knoll. Tugitive. More Evidence fifth, whose nose was skinned neatly Seventh cavalry, E, II, 1 and L, Out along the American line a troopTn a field where about 100 men had at the tip by the rough edges of a from an immense hollow, with er was fought were rebefore man lying on his stomach firing. surgi ricoohet bullet. Another camped a few days bandits on three sides, charging de- His comrades saw a bullet strike forty un una conun his ceived a bullet in the canteen at cal bandages. absorDeni over with marked liberately ground in had feet of him, then another front that they the articles evidences wounds belt, the missile remaining in the bullet puffs in the dust all around a in popped twenty feet ahead of him. In aluminus water bottle. come from a wound or Mexicans where had feet the their a moment more a third ball struck The only trail In less than a minute reinforce- their exact range. very infected condition. account for They him in the head, killing him. A lieufrom this field indicated also that, ments dashed through the marked at least wound- tenant bandits killed or all fifty received by to lying among his men was reports range, their fire, assisted by rifles ed against" an American loss of two contrary columns and wounded. American from the American guard which was dead and three wounded. One Mexiother pursuing Then the Americans had gotW the Carranzistas, Villa probably still back on the hills before the canwoman was wounded by bandits. ten tlie range of the Mexicans on the bad not gone to Santa Ana, but was yon's mouth, putting the Villistas to can Bandits Overtaken. trvin"' to turn westward toward the flight. A detachment pursued the crest and checked their fire. Several mountain caves for a little rest. bandits until darkness ended the Two nights before this fight the freshly made graves on this crest, Howze s column chase. Americans overtook the bandits at found next day, testified to the Thereupon Major which led movement canbore westward, a in The Americans camped the the Yoquivomine, where they were, Americans' aim. One Mexican leader counVilla hostile a into completely about campfires, telling the na- on a, gray horse rode into sight on yon, a feint, for soon after dark they Americans, keeping men in took up a night ride, hoping to sur- lying stories of how they claimed to this skyline half a dozen times, but try. The condition tives and horses in fair excellent next Villistas the in the town, have prise whipped "Los Americanos at seemed to bear a charm against bultiiap?, had managed daily to double Santa Cruz (a different place from Columbus" and at Guerrero. They lets. His mount was the last living ob- the length of each day's march of the the town of that name occupied by showed big lumps of gold and silver Iject the Americans distinguished be- fleeiW villistas, until soon they were Major Tompkins after the Parral taken from Mexican towns and melt - fore darkness ended the fight.- This two davs behind instead of a week, fight). During ,lhe bivouac they ed down, which they asserted were horse Avas found wounded next day at the handicap under which they start- buried Kirby 's body under a tree. Santo Tomas, where Manuel Baca, the snoils of war. Shortly before ed. Corn and wheat, ground to make in Villista ran nn leader, was killed by Leondro breathless, outpost Running Tight Ensues. Killed beef was flapjacks, with freshly Santa Cruz was reached soon after exclaiming: Alverez, a Mexican pacifico, for the the soldiers' diet and they declaredr. where a running fight in "Los Americanos are coming in!" price of twenty silver pesos, about it "the durndest ever, but satisfy-mt- midnight, the darkness occurred. There the Scores of dark forms leaped through .$7 American inoney. The Mexicans bugles blew, and in ten said the horse was Baca's. next stop score of the afternoon's fight was the firelight, whole San Jose del Sitio was the bandit command the minutes Oue was evened. killed. A Casting a great black shadow on the Vjllista after Casas Colorado. By guarding town. land less than a mile to the out desert When had of the General the Vil of galloped Beltran, his hoiifrc with American sentries, so nephew Ascencion lies the camp of in came two of found north was The they cavalrymen captured. his towns people might not pry into listas' leader, Sey-ferAmerican Mr. a the American infantrymen who are mining men, the fact that he was talking to Amer- white horse, belonging to his father, and another who had paid $2000 guarding the line of communication. a " General Beltran and jefe de icans, a wealthy old man of the Diaz al.o to the Villistas, and whose Their tents are pitched in the center ransom was killed. armas the of Villa Howze village that regime told Major lives 's sabre Beltran "General" Jose San come to probably had been saved by the of a little cottonwood fringed oasis. along bad probably not arrival. Around their camp is a long trench were Seventh's arms taken. some valuable with all in fie! Siti', but had turned west, r O II f4l II II U lv so was I in this villi The trail i in the Jill" i ready for instant occupancy, while region pre likelihood toward Xonoava, Jeled Candelcro were Cervantes, cavalrymen constantly are making hy mountains. Villa had sent most of cipitous that the first cavalryman K- - , if yvtC' 1 2 H ' j A' & . " t I I r " via?' With the American punitive expedition in Mexico. Upper left. United States troops in trenches ready for an attack, and beneath, bandits whd raided Columbus and were later captured under guard; upper right, ai soldier's shelter in the Mexican desert consisting of adobe mud and grass; lower. Eleventh cavalry on the march and unloading supplies at base headquarters. ; . - . -- 1 v : 5 man-to-ma- pi ' y- -: . . t - r--c- - - raid-nig- ht th 1 1 I VI 1 1 trJcscrcxJ . their lonely way up and down the motor supply route which leads from Columbus, X. M., to the front. A Monotonous Task. It is a tedious job, this guarding of a wagon trail in the formless desert of Chihuahua, according to the soldiers, who are members of the Twenty-fourt- h infantry, a negro regiment. Only the occasional arrival of a motor or a wagon train carrying supplies to the, troops farther to the fiont, who are actively pursuing Villa, breaks the monotony of the task. An engineering company, whose brown canvas shelters. lie just across the Rio de Janos, is the envy of the infantrymen, for tbejT at least, are kept busy repairing the dust filled' ruts in the road made by the passage of innumerable heavy truck trains. . Of course, occasionally the silence of a night is broken by the firing of shots. But, in the main, these only serve to demonstrate tho preparedness of the men. who are doing the watchful waiting along the line. The scream of a coyote, blood curdling in its intensitj7, the movement of a wild animal or the swaying of a clump of mesquite in the night breeze, is enough to call forth a sharp challenge, which', unanswered, is followed by the whining purr of a rifle bullet. Even the town of Ascencion, lying miles south of Coabout sixty-fiv- e lumbus, N. M., offers no distraction for the soldiers. Once a prosperous star-pepper- ed ' . Mexican village, years of civil strife has left it little more than a huddled cluster of jackals, bearing the marks or the town's expe et the console with the troops knowledge that things here, after all, are not like those in Boca Grande, Co- lonia Dublan, Xamiquipa, and other towns along the long motor supply route from the border to the district in which the advanced American detachments are pursuing Villa. The soldiers are just sitting on the line, waiting, and doing their best to adapt themselves to their surroundings. Because of the order wrhich has gone out against unnecessary firing, even hunting is under the ban. As a result the wild animals who make their homes on these flat dusty plains are beginning to lose their fear of the soldiers. A soldier telegraph operator dozing at his key in the extemporized headquarters, was awakened by a flat, rough tongue laid against his cheek. He awakened, so the story goes, to see a rangy coyote, which had been standing with its forepaws on the rungs of his chair, scampering away in the darkness. Eager for Supplies. And then there1 was the civilian truck driver, who, rolling over in his blanket, sniffed at the soft little ball that lay at his" side and that snuggled closer as he drew away, only to find that he had a skunk for bed fellow. It is to the arrival of the mot.cr truck trains that tho soldiers look , I forward most eagerlv, bringing .is they do, supplies and news trom the outside world. The hours are counted from the time the word is flashed over the field telegraph wire that a train is leaving along the dusty trail which hugs the sand dunes to theT west of Columbus in a sweeping half circle for fifteen miles or so and finally- crosses the border, until it can be seen making its way here through the shimmering heat waves of the desert. The trains bring together men of every sort. There are the officers nd guards of the truck train, ilian8straveling in Mexico th t permission and the civilian chauffeur. Among the drivers there is a former cavalry lieutenant retired several years ago for physical disability and who, in his spare time, perfected an automobile device, the royalties from which amount to $50,000 annually. He is driving a truck, just as is a former football star at tho University of Michigan, who in his day was mentioned for the mythical eleven, and there is a former officer in another array who, for reasons he prefers to keep to himself, is laboring alongside the yoi:rU mechanics from motor factories, doling his "bit" to help avenge CoJtrm-bu- s. civ-nenc- es. mili-jmselv- es all-Ameri- But even the truck trains do not stop for long, only a few hours f or rest, every effort being made to hasten the supplies to the waiting troops in the field. When the crew of a train is ready to leave the warm water from the radiators of the cars is let out and divided among them, a few drops to each for toilet purposes. As soon as the radiators have been, refilled with cold water from the river the train resumes its iournfV And through the dust haze. resume flLScencion tneir troops at speculation as to the time of the arrival of the next train. -- ta |