Mexican Attack Engineers' Camp

1916

El Paso, Texas, Sept. 8. — Thirty Mexicans supposed to be Villa followers, made a raid on the engineers' camp of the American punitive expedition and escaped with a mule, according to members of the expeditionary force arriving here today from Mexico by way of Columbus. This raid, which took place last Wednesday on an isolated portion of the camp at Ojo Federico, is believed by military authorities here to have been indirectly responsible for today's rumor of a clash between the fifth cavalry and the 16th infantry of regulars, and a band of Villa followers south of Ey Valle, Chihuahua.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 7.