Show STORY OF MEXICAN escaped trooper gives details of tenth cavalry fight carranza tr troops aps cps mowed owe d down men jand and horses hors with machine guns after leading T them em into a trap el paso tex no more graphic story citi be found lp n the reco record r d of the united states it urmy rip y than that told by me ine pl of tit the couriers ur ler from roin the ill fated i troops of lite he tenth cavalry y that wits was ambushed by carranza Cai ranza troops ills hla atory of the attack was as told to genral general Pers hinand and In included chided by that officer fe report P rt to washl washington in gian li was its as follows the follo bowl ng Is the story lie he tells we had been marching since early wednesday morning when we reached reache d tue the neighborhood of carrizal Carrl zal capt charles charlee T boyd wits was riding ahead of the column just behind him was capt lewis S morey henry U adaar wan further back with the column there were 65 men in the troop outnumbered 6 5 to 1 from our posit position loii we could aee some Alex mexican ican solda soldiers rs in the village captain boyd bod bent forward a messenger under a hag of truce to ask blon flon If to enter the town in search of the bandits bandl th that we were hunting gen goniea sent hack back word giving permission ta to enter gomez hinus himself elf rode out to meet captain boyd gave the afie word for the lie column to advance we were just starting forward when we mot noticed leed mexican troops pouring out front from behind different kiras kinds of shelter adobe houses and the like ilke tind and dei cloying to the right and left lt it was cattle formation prom the first glance we saw that they outnumbered us its lit at lea least st five to tg one captain boyd noticed their movement to a any in y soldier thatis that sort ort of thing cari can mean only that hij aai attack Is about to be made I 1 haw captain capon boyd mo tion to ao the th mexicans Alexi cans some remark about it to godinez gomez wheeled his mount around and big baled with his hands then ne made ft dati dash for his own lines at ai the sume same time a couple bf 0 ma chine guns one tit at each end of the Alex mexican ican line opened up on us we were caught in our saddles in easy anac c tilt and we were good target 4 I 1 captain boyd fall A moment later capit in morey wits was wounded tit in the alie shoulder lieutenant adair gave esthe us the order ito to dismount we got out of our sud ties dies in it hurry then lie he told us to throw ourselves on our faces and return i themire the th etire tire someone got gomez just us its tie was reaching his lilot line the next inI minute nute lieutenant adair was tilt hit both lie he and captain boyd Boy dare are dead I 1 believe horses going down the macl machine pe guns were still hlll going 11 could henr hear the hul bullets lets whizzing over us because of lieutenant it adaire order we saved alot a lot of men en but the horses did not have the same luck luch the bullets started to hit them and they were going down as if their legs legi wore were suddenly pu cu opt out from under tinder them the ch others liers stung by the bullets and I 1 kicked by the dying horses began to rear and plunge the men in charge tried their best kohold them but they t broke away some of the men were killed trying to fo isit save ve mounts when got awa away we were marooned we fought back and prevented the Alexi mexicans cans from advancing in spite of their advant advantage in numbers I 1 and the macht machine tie guns we began to stall back toward the hills as well at as we could we recovered four horses and then the four of us were sent here to re aport we left tle the rest of the troops in ithe hils the retreat was slow because of f the tit e wounded d the mexicans kept 91 but auf were kept away by ike hs accurate rifle fire of our men |