Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-10-24 | Page 5 | Reports State Hundreds Dead in Storm Area

HU HUNDREDS U DEAD fAD IN SIO STORM M A AREA fA f e Floods J Destroy Town yD Residents eside and Cattle f MEXICO CITY Oct 24 AP AP- AP Dispatches to the n newspaper Ex- Ex Tampico t today ay quoted tho commander of tho the federal garrison gar gar- rison at Alamo state or Orr Vera era Cruz ms S saving that many mimy persons possibly pos sibly hundreds had died during durin b moods Hoods there ther Tuesday Captain Alvaro Barrazo wh who managed to escape from rom the town with life his troops as as tho the inundation licked at t heels hees lId ho h ha had d observed tho the disaster from high ground nearby and had seen possibly pos sibly hundreds of ot persons caught In tho sudden n onrush of ot water POS I and swept away from tho river cur cur- rents rants AVIATOR VIATOR SAW HOUSES HOUSES' He added t that U t tho town was almost al almost al- al most i completely J destro destroyed ed although al although although al- al though an American aviator E. E Warren n flying over what blit ho believed believed be be- ie ed to bo ho Alamo yesterday said th that that- t- t ts s several veral buildings were left standing and were emerging from rom tho the receding waters Warren saw V sawa a B number of ot p persons walking I around Barrazo Barraza and his men reached the town of ot Nunez unez after a ahard hard march through storm torm and flood ridden country countr losing their horses en route From Chapopote Kuncz Nunez N nez got In with the commander com corn mander of ot the garrison at Tampico and Informed him of or the disaster STORM RAGES 3 DA DAYS VS Ho said the storms commenced Sunday October 5 L and Kept up tip persistently until Tuesday of tills this week reek when tho the flooded rivers overflowed overflowed over over- flowed owed and Inundated the town The Tho populace van panic Ie stricken Sought Bought refuge refugo In tho the lulls hills but many were caught aught In tho the swirling waters Other reports from tho stricken district said tho the nearby villages ofSan of oC ofSan San Isidro Tumbadero OJito and San 1 Miguel had totally disappeared beneath tho water which receding had left teft many human bodies as well wellna na M th the bodies s of ot cattle calLIe Tho The Penn Penn- Mex Z Fuel company property at Alamo was badly damaged