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Show THE ORGAN GRINDER HJopyrltjhi.) ; MOREY REPORTS ; CARRIZAL FIGHT 1 OFFICER SUPPOSED TO HAVE s BEEN LEFT DEAD ON FIELD REACHES AMERICAN LINES. Mexicans Fired, He Says, When Amer. leans, Fearing Ambush, Advanced in j Battle Formation After Being Warned Not to Enter Town. f San Antonio, Texas. Left to die of loss of blood and thirst, two miles r from the scene of the encounter be- ' tween Mexican and American troops 1 at Carrizal, Capt. Lewis Sydney - Morey, of the Tenth cavalry, has made his way back safe to the American lines. ' A letter from Captain Morey writ-! writ-! ten while hiding in a hole near the 1 scene of the fight at Carrizal after - his men had been broken and scat-' scat-' tered by the Mexican force, was re-1 re-1 ceived by General Funston through ' General Pershing Sunday night. In ' that letter, Captain Morey had de-' de-' scribed how, fearing an ambush, the American troopers, Capt. Charles T. Boyd commanding, had advanced in battle formation on the Mexicans who , had come out from Carrizal during a parley over permission for the Americans Ameri-cans to pass through the town; bow . the Mexicans had opened Are and how the remaining Americans, after their first advance, and been forced to retreat re-treat and scatter, each for himself. Captain Morey's letter told of the ! joining of C troop under Captain Boyd . and K troop under his own command at Ojo Santo Domingo June 20 and i the advance together toward Carrizal June 21. They arrived in an open field a mile from Carrizal at 7:30 in the morning. There they halted. and : Captain Boyd sent a courier into Car- rizal asking permission of General Felix Fe-lix Gomez to enter the town, saying he was going to Villa Ahumada. Gomez Go-mez replied that he would not be al- ' lowed to enter the town but might make a detour around it. Fearing that they were about to be trapped by the Mexicans who ' had sallied out from the town during the parley, the American troops deployed in battle formation, mounted and moved forward. The Mexicans then opened fire. Captain Boyd ordered his men to dismount and returned the fire, the engagement lasting about an hour. Both C and K troops advanced, the former to the position occupied by a Mexican machine gun and the latter closing in to one side. K troop also was attacked from the flank, while a detachment of Mexicans from the town reached the rear of the American Ameri-can line and stampeded the led horses. The Mexicans succeeded in checking the American advance and the Americans Ameri-cans first were forced to fall back and finally to scatter each for himself. |