Two Maderos Safe After Ride For Life.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 6, 1913:
Emilio and Raoul Attacked by Both Sides in 600-Mile Race in Mexico.
CALL TO ARMS IN SONORA
State Congress Repudiates Huerta — Carrancistas 10,000 Strong — Rumor of Orozco's Death Revived.
Special to the New York Times.
    SAN ANTONIO. Texas, March 5.—After a desperate horseback ride of 600 miles from Torreon, Mexico, to Marathon, Texas, Emilio Madero, reported officially to have been slain, reached this city to-day with his brother Raoul, who also was reported dead. Several times in their flight the brothers of the assassinated President barely escaped with their lives following attacks on them both by rebels and Federals. They were pursued almost all the way to the border, and escaped only because of the superior knowledge of the country which three servants accompanying them possessed.
    Gabriel Madero, another brother, met them here. They will remain here until after the conference in New York among other members of the family now on the way there from Cuba. "
    Emilio said the family would not give up the fight against Huerta and Diaz while it had a cent or a member left. He was confident that as soon as the brothers should meet so they could make their plans accord the death of Francisco I, Madero, Jr., would be avenged, not by further assassinations, but by reassumption of power.
    The Madero brothers asserted Gov. Carranza of the State of Coahuila had 10,000 troops on a war footing that were ready to resist the Huerta-Diaz regime, and that other northern States were getting ready for a concerted effort to help the Maderistas.
    T. R. Beltran, a friend of the Maderos, who returned to-day from Saltillo, Mexico, confirmed their assertion that Gov. Carranza had 10,000 men at his disposal to unseat Gen. Huerta as Provisional President of Mexico.
    "No, I am not dead," remarked Emilio with a laugh, referring to the reports that had been given out officially, both by the Mexican Government and the American Ambassador, that he had been killed. "I am not dead," he continued, but it is not the fault of some bandit gentlemen we met on two occasions in our trip to the border."
    The Madero brothers are stopping in the Hutchings Hotel, in which Francesco I. Madero, Jr., laid the plans for his revolution after an enforced flight from the republic.
    "When I received positive word that our brother, the President, had been made a prisoner in the National Palace and that Huerta, had called himself Provisional President," said Emilio Madero, "I realized that no Madero would be safe in the country. We decided, therefore, to flee to the United States.
    "As it was not safe for us to travel on the railroads, there being danger that we would be recognized, we decided to come overland on horseback and by whatever other conveyance we could get, even though it meant a trip of six hundred miles. We brought three servants who knew the country which we were to traverse. We could not bring much food, so we had to depend on getting it along the road. That was one of our chief difficulties, and on more than one occasion we were without food long enough to feel very hungry.
    "It was on Feb. 20 that we left, so you see the trip to the border took us twelve days. The chief thing we suffered was the monotony of the trip. Every day was the same, except the two days when we were chased by bandits. The first of these was after we were a few days out and just after we heard that the President had been killed. There were about a dozen men in the band, and they rode rapidly toward us.
    "As we did not wish to run the risk of being recognized, we whipped up our horses. Our mounts seemed to be pressure than those of our pursuers, for, though they got close enough at one time to exchange a few shots with us, we soon eluded them.
    "The second instance was a little more serious. There were about forty highwaymen in the band, and they gave us a hot chase. We kept up a bush fight with them for a long time, and then, one of our servants knowing a shorter cut through the mountains, we escaped."
    A report reviving the rumor that Gen. Pascual Orozco. Jr., the Mexican revolutionist, had been dead four months was brought by Señor Beltran, who is a prominent Mexican. The Señor had been in the north of Mexico conferring with revolutionists. He asserted that Orozco died from gunshot wounds inflicted at Ojinaga and was buried in Santo Domingo, Coahuila. Gen. Orozco's alleged representative, Col. José Cordova, Beltran said, was sent to Mexico City to use Orozco's name to obtain money for minor chiefs.

    HERMOSILLO, Sonora. Mex,. March 5. — Repudiation of Huerta's Provisional national Government was made officially here late to-day at a special meeting of the Sonora State Congress, which also issued a general call to arms for all the people of the State to prevent any intrusion by Gen. Huerta's soldiers.
    "Any attempt to bring Government troops into Sonora will be resented," was the message sent by the State authorities here to the party in power in Mexico City. Provisional Gov. Pesquiera issued an announcement in which he said:
    "I am prepared to defend the State with my life."
    Señor Pesquiera was appointed Chief Executive by the Senate when Gov. Maytorena, now a refugee in Arizona, was ousted.
    Cannons have been placed around the city and intrenchments are being dug.

    TUCSON, Ariz. March 5.— Ex-Gov. José Maytorena said here to-night:
    "I expect every province like Hermosillo to rise in flame against the usurper Huerta. Sonora never will stand for a Government breaker and usurper."
    "DOUGLAS, Ariz., March 5.—Trains from the south this afternoon brought many refugees, who reported Northern Sonora in a state of commotion in preparation for a general campaign to make the border State an independent republic. Private telegrams received here from Mexico City say that Huerta has appointed Manuel Mascarenas Provisional Governor of Sonora with orders to proceed to Hermosillo and subdue the uprising there. Messages from Hermosillo assert that Gen. Obregon has been appointed Commander or the Constitutionalists in rebellion against the Mexico City Government.
    The former Maderistas continue mobilization of troops at Colonia Morelos, below this point. Rebels camped ten miles to the south assert they will make an attack to-morrow morning on Agua Prieta, the Mexican border town opposite Douglas.
    Seventeen hundred men and machine gums of the Ninth United States Cavalry, which regiment had two brushes with Mexican troops over the line, are stretched along the border to-night. By order of the War Department, a guard of the negro troopers has been placed at the Douglas water plant. This was requested by residents. Almost all the Mexicans here are sympathizers with the new Maderistas.
    Col. Guilfoyle has received orders from Washington to return the fire of the Mexicans over the line only when necessary to protect American lives. He also has been instructed to keep the patrol under cover.