Overtures By Diaz To Northern Rebels.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 13, 1913:
They Are Told They Will Be Invited to a Conference — Orozco Will Aid Diaz.
RIOTING IN CHIHUAHUA CITY
Trains Get Through to Juarez and Laredo, Bringing Hundreds of American and Other Refugees.
    EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 12.— Local agents of Mexican revolutionists rejoiced to-day in the receipt of two letters indicating a union of action between the Diaz revolt in the national capital and the revolution in the north. One came from an agent at Mexico City, who said the Diaz element was in sympathy with the Orozco revolution, and for the northern revolutionists at once to send delegates to the national capital. In the event of Madero's downfall the letter explained a congress would be held at Mexico City of delegates from all revolutionary parties.
    Another letter signed by Pascual Orozco, Jr., the missing commander in chief of the northern revolution, was made public. It was directed to Gen. Inez Salazar, acting leader, and asked that all moral assistance be offered to the Diaz uprising, recommending that all hostilities toward the Federal troops he abandoned unless the rebel positions were contested. Orozco is said to be somewhere below the New Mexico line.
    Juarez, where the Federal garrison impatiently awaits developments at Mexico City, is again cut off from all communication with the interior. Rebels who attempted to dynamite to-day's arriving passenger train cut the railway and commercial telegraph lines not far below the border town.
    Rioting in Chihuahua City last night was reported by passengers who arrived here early to-day from the State capital. As the train passed through a mob filled the streets. Volleys of shots were heard and shouts for Diaz.
    The train brought 200 American refugees, most of them from the Casas Grandes district. Near Moctezuma an attempt was made by 100 rebels to dynamite the train, but the explosive was discovered by the small body of troops guarding the train. A skirmish between the troops and the would-be dynamiters resulted in the capture of eight rebels, one of whom is a Swede from the United States.