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Show TROOPS They Kill 50 Mexicans, Take a Few Prisoners and Scatter Rebels. EL TASO, Texas. ,nc 16 American Ameri-can troops that part ic 1 pa ted in th-punitive th-punitive expedition against the Villa rebels in and near Jaurez last night and today, were billeted In barracks and camps on the American side tonight to-night and were asleep before dark af ter their twenty-four hours of campaigning. cam-paigning. t a rear guard to the cavalry, artillery ar-tillery and ergineers columns which wound over the mesa from the river late today, seven ragged. Mexican prisoners were herded toward the Fort Bliss stockade by a detachment of the Fifth cavalry while another detachment detach-ment drove a herd of 100 Mexican horses and ponies captured from the Villa forces to the remount station While no official report of the cavalry cav-alry operations have yet been prepared prepar-ed for Brigadier General James B. Er-win Er-win and Major General Cabell, it was unofficially stated tonight at Fort Bliss that approximately fifty ilia followers were killed and prisoners, horses and mules captured. fine American of the Seventh caval-r caval-r . Corporal Chigas, was shot through the lung b a Mexican rebel on the south bank of the river. After crossing during the night the cavalry column, supported by a battalion bat-talion of the S2nd artillery, advanced and. at daybreak started scouting o er the low. marshy fields in the elbow of the Rio Grande south of Yslela. Texas. Capturing the seven prisoners before reaching the Villa camp, the cavalry was enabled to proceed, dismounted, dis-mounted, 10 a short distance of the adobe headquarters when fighting was begun by the American standing in water up to their knees, according to cavalry officers Four Villa men were killed in the first assault and the entire en-tire force, numbering approximately 2uo no n. mounted and escaped toward the southwest with the cavalry troops in pursuit Crossing the plains and reaching the mesa land, the rebels scattered into small bands and Colonel James J. Hornbrook's Fifth cavalrj pursued one band which continued toward to-ward the southwest for a distance of thirty -five miles before returning toward to-ward the river In the meantime Colonel Tompkin s Seventh cavalry in temporary command com-mand of Colonel Howard R Hiock, deployed de-ployed to the southeast and pursued another band of the Villa men During Dur-ing this pursuit troops A and C of the Seventh cavalry executed a mounted pistol charge from the saddle and killed a number of the rebels In the meantime the artillery placed shrapnel shells directly over the heads of the fleeing Villa force and many were killed. After the two cavalry forces had pursued the rebels over more than thirty square miles, they formed a Junction and returned to the American side of the river, accompanied by the artillery and Eighth engineers, who threw a pontoon bridge across the river. The cavalry, artillery and engineers presented a tired, soiled and travel -stained appearance when they marched march-ed over the mesa to Fort Bliss tonight to-night The heavy cavalry horses had found difficulty in keeping up the speed set by the wiry little Mexican cow ponies The men sat, saddle wear-, on their mounts Many had souvenirs of the Villa pursuit. Officers Offi-cers obtained silver spurs and many sombrerors, knives and crude equipment equip-ment were brought back All of the seven Mexican prisoners professed to be either farmers in the valley or Carranza soldiers, none ad mltting having been with Villa. They had but six horses and mule |