Show 1500 IM LOST sav juz I 1 ao TERRIBLE CALAMITY TWO THOU HOUSES AWAY floods and tiou ii mexico ST louis juno 26 special from ae city of mexico telegraphic communication which has been interrupted several days by floods has been restored particulars of the ter ablo disaster on tho line of tho mexican central ballway Bail way particularly at leon and silao have been obtained during the past ten days the table ands between here and nave been visited by unprecedented rains every mountain along ho central railway for more than JOO miles has been converted into a torrent raid tho valleys present the appearance of lakes abany cities and towns have been inundated and leon and silao have been partially destroyed tho first intimation received in this city of the li in the coith was a telegram from silao dated antho dinst it said it commenced raining heavily here yesterday afternoon and continued all light raising the silao driver out oi ts backs breaking at the north end jf town and passing through the greets with force most oi che houses here being adobe as soon as they were saturated with water began to fall about houses have been destroyed the station buildings occupied by homeless people unable to obtain anything to eat except watermelons water melons and fruit are floating in the water the rain has been general and the whole country around silao is flooded several aykes have given away and it still continues raining on the it was learned that the boods had been more destructive in leon than silao on monday irth the river broke over the dykes notwithstanding all efforts to check it it made rapid headway hooded the city As the rain fell rose rapidly flowing into town and gradually wearing away foundations of the buildings which commenced to fall as night came on monday night brought to that city one of the most terrible scenes ever i in any country the people believing themselves secure went to bed in those parts of town where water had not found its way the steady downfall of rain with tho ex water bed of the outlying country increased the flow of th river and rapidly extended its channel until over half of leon was under water houses tumbled in rapidly baving been worn away by the gatei and a loss of life commenced unparalleled in the history of any of the groat inundations of modem times and as the buildings fell the anfor dunato sleepers were either crushed to death or drowned night of terror followed men women and children fled to the streets in their i night clothes some to find shelter on higher grounds others to be swept away by the flood on sunday morning the rain was still falling there had boon no perceptible cep tible decrease in tho stream of water A mammoth lake extended to all points of the compass its monotonous appearance was occasionally broken by half submerged houses and the highland cropping above its surface the town had a wrecked look hero houses had stood the night previous the water was surging to lower grounds and groups of people who had been forced by impending danger to seek flight without their clothes were standing about in the rain crying and deploring their losses all the houses which the flood left intact were opened to the unfortunates who were provided with everything available tho loss of life up to this whitin has reached into the hundreds bm the threatening danger had closed the channel of sorrow and the hushed voices denoted nothing more than fear for the future all night it poured until wednesday momin saw the balso surrounding tho city undiminished in size with a steady rain disturbing its surface in tho afternoon however it ceased raining and tho waters commenced to recede people recovered from their fright though the water was still covering a portion of the city it is estimated that persons peris lied prom the strong stench from the heaps of rubbish that formed the town one is lead to believe that there are bodies buried under them thui 0 are also bodies floating in alio wit r still many bodies have been recovered and in the ruins of the houses there are supposed to bo hundreds of bodies buried the destroyed houses arc estimated at many other owns have been badly damaged but the loss ot life is reported from silao only and leon the mexican central has suffered very severely several wash outs have occurred between agras caliento and icon but they have now been repaired and trains are running from el taso to ira duato thirty miles all available workmen are employed repairing the bbate of gnand bato an alie federal government are doing much to succor the victims of ahr hoods money food and clothes aro being sent from hero the last reports from acon are heartrending the whole population are working in the ruins of the fallen bouses nearly everybody lost relations or friends and those who have not have seen their earthly possessions disappear in a night the estimated loss of life and property given are tho smallest reported ami arc certainly within tho bounds of truth the very last statement just received places the number of houses destroyed in leon at and tho homeless families at more than 1000 more than bodies have been re covered from the ruins thero is no probability that the entire number will fall short of A dispatch from el jasd texas says information received from the flooded districts in mexico says 1600 lives were lost by the inundation one thousand bodies have been recovered leon is a city of inhabitants and a large part of it is in ruins the mexican collector del Norto has received an official dispatch stating that for one hundred miles tho mexican central is impassable it will fa ten days bo fore the mails can got through and twenty days before freight can be |