Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1916 — VILLIST AS BAND AGAIN RAVAGES TEXAS TOWN [ARTICLE]

VILLIST AS BAND AGAIN RAVAGES TEXAS TOWN

70 Mexicans Fofd Rio Grande and Raid Little Settlement of Glenn Falls—Four Are Killed. Alpine, Tex., May 7. —Villa bandits, some seventy in number, forded the 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, consisting of nine men of Troop A, Fourteenth cavalry. Three troopers and a little ten-year-old boy were killed, two cavalrymen w’ere wounded and another is missing. He is believed to be a prisoner of the bandits, who are now fleeing southward into Coahuila, Mexico. Two American citizens, J. Deemer and a man named Compton, according to reports received here, were carried across the Rio Grande and reports have it that their throats were cut. A posse of fifty citizens of Marathon tonight are in pursuit of the Villistas. The missing trooper is Private Roscoe Tyree. The little boy is the son of Compton. He was deaf and dumb and the bandits are thought to have, killed him because he could not answer their questions. The tv£o wounded troopers, Privates J. Birck and Frank Defre, were brought here this afternoon badly wounded. Birck’s body was filled with small brass pieces of tacks fired from a shotgun. Defre was burned about the head and shoulders. In a little adobe house, nine cavalrymen made their fight for 'ife against the seventy or more Villista bandits at Glenn Springs. A hail of shot poured fbr more than two hours into the single window of the adobe house. And then the Mexican leader ordered fire balls to be thrown into the room, thickly thatched with candalabia. The blazing weed tortured the soldiers and burned their - heads and bodies. 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.