Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1916 — Mexican Band Crossing Border Put to Flight. [ARTICLE]

Mexican Band Crossing Border Put to Flight.

El Paso, Tex., Sept. 27.—A band of fifty armed Mexicans, invading the United States, was’driven back into Mexico near Ysleta, twelve miles southeast of here, late this afternoon by a patrol of eight cavalry. One of the Mexicans dropped a Mauser rifle, used by the constitutionalist army. It was equipped with a sling branded “Troop K, Tenth U. S. Cavalry.” This was Capt. Boyd's troop, which suffered serious losses in the Carrizal fight. The Mexicans, moving in military action, were riding into Ysleta when discovered by the cavalry patrol. They had crossed from Mexico at what is known as Cinccuc ford, three miles northwest of Ysleta. The American patrol numbered only eight mounted men, but, despite the disparity of numbers, immediately advanced at a gallop from a distance 6f nearly three-fourths of a mile. The Mexicans, as soon as they observed the charge, scattered and broke for the Rio Grande. All escaped over the border and disappeared. No shots were fired by either side, the American cavalrymen saving their fire until they could approach close enough to make it count. There was nothing to indicate whether the Mexicans were a Carrancista patrol or bandits, some of whose members had been recruited from the Carranza army after the Carrizal fight.