Show MEXICAN BANDITS annihilate GUARD ATTACK BORDER TOWN KOWN AND MURDER MEMBERS OF SMALL BAND OF cavalrymen Gold lers take refuge in adobe moire but are arc driven forth when building is fired and shot down by bandits alpine texas bandits some borne seventy in nu number aber forded corded th the a rio grande friday night and sweeping fifteen miles inland on american soil raided the little settlement of glenn springs and attacked a detachment of american cavalry consa consisting sting of nine men of troop A the fourteenth cavalry three troopers and a little 10 loyear year old boy were killed two cavalrymen were wounded and another Is he is bellei believed ed to be a prisoner of the bandits who are now fleeing southward into coahuila Coa huila mexico two american citizens J deemers beemers and a man named compton according to reports received here were carried across the rio grande and reports have it that their throats have belen cut A posse of fifty citizens of marathon set out in pursuit of the Vil listas in a little adobe house nine cavalrymen made their fight tor for life against the seventy or more Vil villitta lista bandits at glenn springs A hail of shot poured i tor for more than two hours into the single window ot of the mud adobe but the americans refused to give up the cavalrymen kept upa steady rifle fire in defiant answer then the mexicans leader ordered fire balls to be thrown on the roof thickly thatched with candalaria canda larla the blazing weed tortured the soldiers below and burnt their heads and bodies then smashing the door the troopers broke tor for the open firing as they ran two were shot and killed as they fled one is missing and it is believed lie he is dead another anater was killed as he tried to climb through a window |