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Show THOUSAND DROWNED FLOODS WHICH SWEPT MONTE- REY, MEXICO, PLAYED FEARFUL FEAR-FUL HAVOC. Over Five Hundred Bodies Recovered. Recov-ered. Property Loss of Twenty Million Dollars, and Thousands in Need of Assistance. Monterey, Mexico. Twelve hundred, hun-dred, and perhaps more, people perished per-ished Friday night and Saturday in the flood which swept a large portion of this city. Conservative estimates place the property damage at ?20.-1)00,000. ?20.-1)00,000. Fifteen thousand people are homeless. More than 500 bodies have been recovered. The river has fallen considerably and while still high, the danger if over. Seventeen and a half inches o! rain fell during Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The rain was a steady downpour down-pour and at no time approached a cloudburst. The greatest loss of life occurred Saturday morning between 9 and 11 o'clock, when the large buildings on the south side of the river commenced to crumble. Many of the houses had front one hundred to two hundrec people on their roofs, and all disap peared in the flood. In one school building, ninety women wo-men and children were drowned They had hurried to the school foi safety, but the water drove them from room to room until they were all clustered in one room, and while twc priests were performing some religious relig-ious rites the walls fell and all were swallowed up in the floods. Thousands of people were standing on the north bank of the river unable to render aid to the unfortunates on the buildings on the south side, for nothing could have lived in the current cur-rent of the Santa Catarina, which was half a mile wide and flowing swiftly. Watchers saw buildings loaded with people collapse and the people disappeared in the water. There is scarcely an establishment in the city that did not lose employes. |