Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-08-12
PINE bLUFfIAN FLED FROM MEXICO One of His Party Reaches Little Rock and Tells of Hardships Experienced ARE HELD PRISONERS (. J. LangstOn Finally Reaches Ameri- can Soil After Many Exciting
 Incidents.
ARE HELD PRISONERS

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 11.-Travel- ing $50 miles on push car, and carrying it across numberless ravines where railway bridges had been burned or otherwise destroyed by Mexican soldiers, William K Hill formely of Little Rock made his e1.5 from Mexico, and is visiting at tl.- home of o. D. Tucker, 1700 Twenty second street. Mir. Hills wife has been in Little Rock for several months, having been sent out Cl Mexico because of the revolutions. Mir. Hill is brother-in-law of clr. Tucker, and his mother, Mrs. l.. Hill, lives in Little Rock, making her home with MT. Tucker.
 MT. Hill left Torrean, Coaaui!a, July 10, travelling with c. j. i.aneslcn superintendent of the Mexican E3:th | ern Railway, Jake Roquet and F. l.. Drouex. The push car was ccrs;ruct- l ed especially for the use of N:. Lang ston, as no trains were operating over the lines out of Mexico. Mir
 Hill has lived in Torecn, Where he IS in business, and yesterday said he has sefit his wife out of the southern l republic six times because of tEe
 revolutions.
 Go to MaderO's Home.
 Leaving Torreon the party went :o
 San Pedro, distance of 70 miles,
 which was the home of former Presi- dent Madero. and where the slain
 president is buried. They were held
 there by federal soldiers until their passports arrived. While here they
 were deserted by one of the men
 hired to push the car and carry it
 across ravines where bridges were
 torn down. which compelled them to
 buy mule to pull the car.
 Going to Hipolito. the refugees on countered their first and most
 serious trouble, according to Mir. Hill for every bridge was gone and many
 times the travellers, as we'll as ser
 wants had to join hands and carry
 the car from a quarter to one-hal1 mile to get it across to the rails and } resume the journey. The same in convenience was encountered going from Hipolito to Rieta, where the! arrived July 13. the day following the } capture of Monte Glove by the fedora army. The battle was reported tt !, have been bloody conflict, 800 mel being killed.
 Ordered to Return.
 From Rieta Mir. Hill says the party
 wanted to go to Monclova but tho
 federal commander told them to re ; turn by Montrey, which they did = Retracing several miles of their jour t ney, after eight days of hard work
 they arrived at their destination. l
 was said that every town between f Hipolito and Rieta was depopulate' ' and the railway stations and water
 tanks had been burned. Hipolito hat
 not seen train for several months } Provisions were brought iron |. Monterey by handcar.
 . The federals were running a trail ! from Ricta to Saltillo. but because th'
 line between Monterey and Saltillt = was cut we did not go that route, = said Mir. Hill. Arriving at Montere.
 we sent the servants back to Torreo:
 giving them notes to our friends il | that city advising them not to under a take the trip we had undergone, be d cause of the extreme hardship. y| Just Missed Rebel Band. d While we did not meet a rebel ol r. cue entire journey, we barely missed ; d band of 400 men, and met many 0 d their sympathizers. who were yer, n anxious for news. Ill many places 'e weeds had grown up between tn T. tracks of the railroad. and were s' d high that the servants had to help thu sf mule by pushing the car.
 ef At Monterey we met General Han n ma, the United States consul, who ac
 corded us every courtesy possible ant
 every assistance. We were delaye'
 three days in getting our passports
 and finally were refused permission to go to Laredo. Tex, by Genera "a Gonzales. We then took train fo e. Tampico, Tam, and arriving there W V found that Red Cross refuge boat
 the Texas, would leave the follow