Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-06-29 | Page 1 | 1000 Killed in Mexico Floods

1 lOU KILLED IN flOOD Densely Populated Section Sec Sec- tion of Leo Devastated by Raging Waters MEXICO CITY June JunC 29 AAn APAn AP- AP An estimate that the total fa fatalities In the floods at Leon exceed gi gin n by a correspondent of oC ofEl I IEl El has JUst returned regions I from the He Ha sa says s that the exact mourn num ber of victims never will be known because the flood waters carried away aVaY bodies from Leon and the densely pOPUlated neighboring farming arming sections Bodies dally daily are found Cound In mud left bY the receding waters waters and there are fears fears' In Leon that an epidemic epi- epi demic maY result Thirteen hundred hundred hun hun- dred houses were destroyed and an eq equal al rumber have been damaged damage beY beyond nd repair Six thousand lies Ilea are lodged In public buildings In the while more are living open o oi t tte e hillsides Eis refusing to return return re- re turn to the city In fear ot of a recurrence recurrence recur recur- of the floods rence sections ot of the Only tIme the poor city suffered badlY fr from m the of the waters The flood only slon sion In iii the reached two feet teet In depth residential sections The better houses house lre were atone construCtion construe because they are ot of tion recovered reco number of bodies thus The far Car aggregateS s but 1000 persons or more are ure missing