Rebels Stop Auto Sortie.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 9, 1913:
Cripple Federal Machine at Monclova and Capture Mules.
    CONSTITUTIONALIST FIELD HEADQUARTERS, HACIENDA HERMANES, Coahuila, Aug. 6, (Via Eagle Pass, Texas, Aug. 8.)— A party of mounted Federals, led by an armored automobile, dashed out of the besieged City of Monclova yesterday, and attempted to raid the Hacienda de La Cruz, near the city, where twenty-five Federals were killed by a mine explosion a few days ago. The besieging Constitutionalists aimed low at the automobile, their bullets stripping it of tires and crippling it for further use on the bad roads of this region. The cavalry escort galloped back to Monclova.
    On Monday last the Constitutionalists captured a work train of fifty-four mules convoyed by forty-two Federals. The prisoners were brought here, where they say they will join the Constitutionalist army.
    Refugees from Monterey arriving here accused the Federals there of all sorts of depredations.