Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-26 | Page 12 | Pestilence in Wake of Flood

PESTilENCE IN INAKE WAKE AKE OF FLOOD Loss Enormous in in Nayarit Mexico YAGO Nayarit Mexico Jan 1 16 AP Ar Correspondence Correspondence- Flood stricken Nay Nayarit has undertaken the rehabilitation of oC many towns town townsand townsand and communities veritably burled buried under the debris and ruins left inthe in inthe inthe the path of or the waters of ot the Santiago Santiago San Sana tiago river which have taken a heavy toll In human life and prop prop- erty erh Details of ot the disaster received here reveal the unprecedented havoc wrought by the sudden bursting of or retaining dams dame In Lake Lik Chapala in the plateau of ot Mexico releasing a tremendous flow ot of o water cm at the sleeping villagers Inthe in inthe inthe the bottoms Sixty-eight Sixty bodIes bodle have been recovered in Santiago and more are believed tobe to tobe tobe be buried burled under huge deposits ot of o silt and debris Pestilence has come In the wake of at the flood Countless carcasses of ot drowned cattle and other domestic do do- animals are scattered over ove the devastated district and thousands thousands thousands thou thou- I sands of ot buzzards rill Mill the he air all I Federal and municipal have hav concentrated their efforts to avert an epidemic among the impoverished impoverished im- im survivors In Santiago 1413 houses were destro destroyed ed by the flood or about one-fourth one of ot the city Many inhabitants were forced by soldiers at the point of r revolvers to abandon abandon abandon aban aban- don their homes when they tailed failed to comprehend the Imminence o of disaster from the onrushing waters Thousands were sheltered during the peak of ot the flood on the tops of hills in the vicinity Toppled adobe structures dot the landscape in many sections Vas Vast supplies of ot food tood were destroyed The entire town of or San Pedro with witha a population of was submerged sub sub- submerged merged and only two buildings stood there after atter the waters sub sub- sided Railroads also sustained heavy losses The property lo 10 loss s In the state Is expected to reach millions of ot dollars