Fled From Rebels 8 Days.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 17, 1913:
Geologist and His Party Crossed Mexican Deserts to Escape.
    MANITOWOC, Wis., Aug. 16.— After an eight-day trip of 500 miles through mountain fastnesses and over deserts with a mule train. George Garrey of Manitowoc and his party have escaped from Mexico and are in El Paso, from which point Garrey communicated today to relieve the anxiety of relatives. The party traveled night and day and reached Marfa, Texas, in an exhausted condition. :
    Garrey is chief geologist for a smelting company, with headquarters in New York. He was in Sierra Mojuda. The revolutionists seized the railroad and cut the wires. Garrey and his assistants left the city at night, with mules carrying their baggage.