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Show GRAPHIC STORY OF AP0SHED TROOPS Surviving Trooper Tells of Fight of Tenth Cavalry. WERE OUTNUMBERED 5 TO 1 Caught by Mexican Machine Gum Which Opened Fire at Signal From Gomez Horses Were Shot Down or Broke Away. El Paso, Tex. One of the most graphic stories In the history of the American army Is that told by one of the four couriers sent by the commanding command-ing officer of the ambushed troops of the Tenth cuvalry when he reached Geuerul Pershing's headquarters with his appeal for relief for his comrades. The following Is the story he tells: "We had been marching since early Wednesday morning when we reuched the neighborhood of Carrizal. CapL Charles T. Boyd was riding ahead of the column. Just behind him was Capt Lewis S. Morey, Lieut. Henry R. Adair was further back with the column. There were 65 men In the troop. Outnumbered 5 to 1. "From our position we could see some Mexican soldiers in the village. Captain Boyd sent forward a messenger messen-ger under a flag of truce to ask permission permis-sion to enter the town in search of the bandits that we were hunting. Gen. Felix Gomez sent back word giving permission to enter. "Gomez himself rode out to meet Captain Boyd. Captain Boyd gave the word for the column to advance. We were Just starting forward when we noticed Mexican troops pouring out from behind different kinds of shelter adobe houses and the like and deploying de-ploying to the right and left. It was battle formntion. From the first glance we saw that they outnumbered us at least five to one. "Cuptain Boyd noticed their movement. move-ment. To any soldier that sort of thing can mean only that an nttack is about to be made. I suw Captain Boyd motion mo-tion to the Mexicans and make some remark about it to Gomez. Gomez wheeled his mount uround and signaled sig-naled with his hands. Then he made a dash for his own lines. "At the same time a couple of machine ma-chine guns, one at each end of the Mexican line, opened up on us. We were caught in our saddles In easy range, and we were good targets. 1 saw Captain Boyd fall. A moment later Captain Morey was wounded in the shoulder. "Lieutenant Adnlr gave us the order to dismount. We got out of our saddles sad-dles in a hurry. Then he told us to throw ourselves on our faces and return re-turn the fire. Someone got Gomeu just as he was reaching his line. The next minute Lieutenant Adair was hit. Both he and Captain Boyd are dead, I believe. Horses Going Down. "The machine guns were still going.' I could hear the bullets whizzing over us. Because of Lieutenant Adair's order or-der we saved a lot of men. But the horses did not have the same luck. The bullets started to hit them, and they were going down as if their legs were suddenly cut out from under them. "The others, stung by the bullets and kicked by the dying horses, began to rear and plunge. The men in charge tried their best to hold them ,but they broke away. Some of the men were killed trying to save their mounts. "When the horses got away we were mnrooned. We fought back and prevented pre-vented the Mexicans from advancing in spite of their advantage in numbers and the machine guns. We began to fall back toward the hills as well as we could. "We recovered four horses and then the four of us were sent here to report. re-port. We left the rest of the troops In the hils. The retreat was slow because of the wounded. The Mexicans kept firing, but were kept away by the accurate ac-curate rifle fire of our men." |