Madero And Suarez In Prison.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 23, 1913:
President Refuses to Assure Señora Madero That Her Husband Will Live.
    MEXICO CITY, Feb. 22.— Francisco I. Madero and José Pino Suarez, the deposed President and Vice President of the Mexican Republic, were transferred today from the National Palace to the penitentiary. A member of the Provisional Cabinet said that probably no decision as to their fate would be reached for some days.
    Mrs. Madero stood before Gen. Victoriano Huerta, the Provisional President, today and pleaded for clemency for her husband. She left the National Palace with no assurance for his safety, and she was forced to forego the consolation of conversation with him, as his guards are enforcing rigidly the order of incommunicado.
    Gen. Huerta treated the downcast, frightened woman with every courtesy, but he explained to her that in view of the investigations to which ex-President Madero would be subjected his fate was in other hands, intimating that Congress probably would render the final decision.
    What may be regarded as executive sanction for an investigation of the State National Treasury with a view to determining ex-President Madero's responsibility for any shortage, is contained in a message sent to Congress to-day by the Foreign Minister, Francisco, de la Barra.
    The message was agreed upon by the Cabinet and President and Señor de la Barra was instructed to prepare it. It was an outline of the policies of the new administration.
    Specifying portions of the programme, the message said that there should be an immediate investigation of the exact amount of money in the Treasury. This is in direct line with the efforts of a group of deputies who insist that the Maderos looted the treasury and should be punished.
    "The revolutionary element," said Señor de la Barra in the message, "those who cherished ideals of democracy and liberty, and for these fought, will find in the new Government a disposition to be frank and firm and anxious to aid in the implantation of those principles which have for their object the betterment of the condition of the citizen."
    "The international situation," continues the message, "which may be considered delicate in some respects, though fortunately not grave, will be resolved satisfactorily because of the firmness and justice with which the Chancellery always proceeds with its affairs and because of the cordial sentiments and friendship which the foreign Governments have had and still have as a basis of their relations with us."

Hopeful Reports to Government.
    Conflicting reports are received of the situation throughout the nation. The Government was pleased by reports from the State of Coahuila and other northern points where rumors of dissatisfaction with the new administration had been rife. Gov. Carranza of the State of Coahuila, who joined hands with Emilio and Raoul Madero, brothers of the deposed President, was said to have been unable to increase their following. Gov. Villareal of Nueve Leon, father-in-law of Gustavo Madero, has relieved the situation by resigning from office.
    The reported antagonism to the new Federal administration on the part of the officials of the State of Vera Cruz was disposed of this morning at a conference between Enrique Copeda, the Governor of the Federal District, and the civil and military authorities. Copeda arrived here this morning on a special train and informed Gen. Huerta that the military commander of Vera Cruz, as well as the civil authorities, had pledged their loyalty to him. Copeda also said that Emiliano Zapata, the rebel leader, probably would accept the new conditions.

Trouble in Southern States.
    Yet disturbances have broken out in the State of Vera Cruz, which indicate that the support the new administration has gained is questionable. A small group of sympathizers with Francisco Madero stopped a train on which he was believed to be fleeing from the Federal capital to the coast, with the object of rescuing the deposed President. The news reached Gen. Roberto Velasco at the City of Vera Cruz, to whom it was reported that the venture had been successful. He thereupon loaded a number of trains with troops and rushed them to Orizaba to fight under the banner of the fallen President. Gen. Huerta was informed of the movement and a force of Federal troops was sent off post haste to Orizaba, and on reaching there surrounded and disarmed the men commanded by Gen. Velasco.

BREAD HID FLEEING MEN.
Two Americans Escaped from Mexico Danger Zone in Baker's Cart.
    Six American tourists who were in Mexico City during the early stages of the revolution arrived here yesterday morning on the Ward liner Morro Castle from Vera Cruz, and three of them sailed again in the afternoon on the Prinz August Wilhelm for Panama.
    The party included Mr. and Mrs. George Welsh, Miss Belle Thomson, and Miss Augusta Yale Rose, all of Albany; John F. Wilkins of New York and Austin Byrne, a civil engineer of 350 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Mr. and Mrs. Welsh and Miss Rose arrived at the Mexican capital on the day of the outbreak of the Diaz revolution. Mr. Byrne and Mr. Wilkins had been there some months.
    Mr. Wilkins, who is the Mexican agent of a Wall Street firm, said that he and Mr. Byrne had great difficulty in escaping from Mexico City, and only succeeded in getting away through being taken to the National Railway Station in a baker's cart, concealed under a load of bread. Just before they reached the station the cart was halted by a detachment of Federal troops. They were dragged from under the loaves, but, after a search, were allowed to proceed.
    "The scenes in Mexico City," Mr. Wilkins went on to say, "were horrible beyond description. In San Juan de Lateran Street we saw the bodies of more than 500 of the dead burned. Troops of both sides would pour kerosene on the bodies and then apply a match.
    "From our quarters in the Iturbe Hotel, in San Francisco Street, we could see much of the shooting. Occasionally we ventured out. The troops on both sides appeared frightened, and fired at almost anybody they saw. This was largely responsible for the deaths of so many non-combatants."
    Miss Rose said: "We had hardly reached our hotel when we heard the firing of the machine guns and the rattle of rifle shots from the direction of the National Palace. We did not know what it meant until one of the clerks from the hotel office ran out into the patio, shouting 'Revolution!' We went to our rooms. From the window I saw crowds of people running by, some with faces bleeding and their clothing torn. Bullets struck the sidewalk in front of the hotel, and then came through the wood and plaster of the upper floors.
    "On Monday night we went in a coach to the railroad station. That is, we started to go, but the driver became frightened at soldiers in the street and ran into a mule cart, which took a wheel off our coach. We were surrounded by a crowd, but three Americans came to our rescue and by their energetic conduct got the wheel put on again, and we went to the station. The train was only half filled, because so few persons dared to venture out. Outside Mexico City the train was fired upon, and we had to lie upon the floor of the cars. In Vera Cruz, where we arrived in twelve hours, we were cared for by the American Consul. The people of Mexico have all gone mad."
    Mr. and Mrs. Welsh and Miss Rose went to see the Panama Canal.