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Show HEXIGAH BANDITS ANNIHILATE GUARE ATTACK BORDER TOWN AND MUR DER MEMBERS OF SMALL BAND OF CAVALRYMEN. 6oldiera Take Refuge in Adobe House But Are Driven Forth When Building is Fired and Shot Down by Bandits. Alpine. Texas. Villista I andits aome seventy in number, forded tin Rio Grande Friday night and, sweep Ing Hfteen miles inland on Americai soil, raided the little seitlement ol Glenn Springs and attacked a detach ment of American cavalry, consistiiii of nine men of Troop A, the Four teenth cavalry. Three troopers and a little 10-year old boy were killed, two cavalrymen were wounded and another is missing. He is believed to be a prisoner of t lie bandits, who are now fleeing south ward into Coahuiia, Mexico. Two American citizens, J. Deemers and a man named Compton, according to reports received here, were carried across the Rio Grande and reports have it that their throats have been cut. A posse of fifty citizens of Marathon Mara-thon set out in pursuit of the Villistas. In a little adobe house nine cavalrymen cav-alrymen made their fight for life against the seventy or more Villista bandits at Glenn Springs. A. hail of shot poured for more than two hours into- the single window of the mud adobe, but the Americans refused to give up. The cavalrymen kept up a steady rifle fire in defiant answer. Then the Mexicans' leader ordered Are balls to be thrown on the roof, thickly thatched with candalaria. The blazing weed tortured the soldiers sol-diers below and burnt their heads and bodies. Then, smashing the door, the troopers broke for the open, firing as they ran. Two were shot and killed as they fled. One is missing, and it is believed he is dead. Another was killed as he tried to climb through a window. , |
