War Council Of Maderos.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 8, 1913:
Family to Decide in San Antonio About New Revolution.
Special to The New York Times.
    SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 7.— In a few weeks, it is said, all the surviving members of the Madero family of Mexico will assemble in this city, and the impression is general that whether another Madero revolution shall be started with the object of driving the Huerta-Diaz Government out of power and avenging the deaths of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., and Gustavo Madero will be determined then. Raoul and Emilo Madero have established headquarters in the Hutchins Hotel here. They say they will remain here indefinitely.
    To The New York Times correspondent this morning Raoul Madero said there was no question that the Mexican Government was withholding much of the truth concerning conditions in the troubled land south of the Rio Grande. He asserted that Gov. Carranza had a large force in the field, and that the Carranza rebellion was bound to be stubborn. Concerning his own and his brother's escape from Mexico, Raoul related that they were pursued almost to the border, and that they were fired on several times. The misstatement given out in Mexico City that he and his brother had been captured and killed he called an internatnional fabrication on the part of the Huerto-Diaz Government

Calls It a Campaign Lie.
    "There is no doubt they would have liked to have us killed," he continued. "That they did not get us was not due to any neglect on the part of the so-called Government, in Mexico City. The statement that we had been killed was given out to create the impression that the Madero movement had been stamped out and to strike terror into the hearts of friends of my murdered brothers."
    Referring to the tortures to which he said Francisco and Gustavo Madero were subjected before they were killed, Raoul asserted it was absolutely impossible to describe the hideousness of those cruelties. Nothing in the Middle Ages could surpass the atrociousness of the deaths met by his brothers, he added. The President, he said, was shot three times in the back of the head. Raoul did not know who fired the shots, but he alleged the murder was committed in the name of the Government, and that it was not until after their deaths that the bodies of Madero and Suarez were taken from the national palace and the rumor was circulated that they had been killed when being transferred to the penitentiary.

Insist Gen. Orozco is Dead.
    The Maderos said they were convinced Gen. Pascual Orozco, Jr., was dead. They asserted that he died several months ago and that the Government in Mexico City knew that to be the truth, although still giving out stories that it was negotiating with the famous Chihuahua warrior. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, commanding the Department of Texas, with headquarters here, left for El Paso this morning. He will make a thorough inspection of the border patrol and the impression is that it will be many months before that patrol is removed. In the event of American Intervention in Mexico, it is said the Third United Slates Cavalry will lead the way, as it did in 1847. That regiment will not be taken to Galveston, but will be held here ready to entrain at a moment's notice. Col. Scott, formerly Superintendent of West Point, is in command of the regiment, which is recruited almost to its full war strength.
    It was said here to-day that information had been received through Federal sources that a large body of Carranzistas was on its way to Nuevo Laredo with the intention of attacking that town. Nuevo Laredo is occupied by followers of the Huerta Government, the place having been taken by a small force at the head of which were Col. Andres Garzan Galan and Col. Pascual Orozco, Sr. The garrison capitulated and several of the municipal officers were incarcerated in their own jail.
    Since the surrender of the city, there has not been a great deal of activity here, with the exception of the destruction of railroad bridges and tracks. The line between Laredo and Monterey is in bad shape. Several bridges have been burned.