Huerta's Downfall Near.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 30, 1913:
New Battle Likely at Any Moment in the Mexican Capital.
    NEW ORLEANS, April 20.— Life and property are not safe in Mexico City, and another battle there may be expected at any time, according to Mexicans and Americans, who fled from the capital and arrived here to-day on the steamer City of Tampico. Exchange is higher than it has been before in a quarter of a century and business is demoralized, the refugees report.
    The City of Tampico carried more than its passenger capacity. In their eagerness to get out of the country, passengers paid fare with the knowledge that there was no sleeping accommodation for them.

    MORGANTOWN, West Va., April 20. — Prof. I. W. White, State Geologist, returned to-day from a three-weeks stay in the Mexican oil fields, and expressed the opinion that the Huerta Government could not remain in power much longer. He gave as the result of his observation that the revolution has assumed greater proportions than any previous uprising, and expressed the belief that before order could be restored it would be necessary for the United States to intervene.

    CHICAGO, April 20.— "The Huerta Government in Mexico probably will be overthrown in two weeks," said Robert J. Kerr, attorney, who recently came from that republic, in an address before the Rotary Club to-day. "The situation there is far more serious than Americans realize. It is vastly more important to this country than is the Balkan situation. Americans are forced to flee from Mexico because the American flag is not as much respected there as are the flags of other countries, and Americans, if they remain, do not know whether they will be able to get damages for their ruined property.

    SAN DIEGO, Cal., April 29.— Gen. Pedro Ojeda and members of his staff, arrested by Major William C. Davis, commanding Fort Rosecrans, here last night, were released this afternoon under orders from Washington. They will leave for Ensenada, lower California, to-night.
    Despite a close guard that was maintained by American soldiers, two members of Ojeda's staff escaped in the night. It is supposed that they reached Tia Juana, lower California, to-day.
    The General was taken into custody when he arrived here on the way to Guaymas.

    EL PASO. Tex., April 29.— Gen. Inez Salazar reorganized part of his command after a mutiny yesterday in Casas Grandes, says his official report, received to-day in Juarez, but he is left with fewer than 200 men.