Show THOUSAND FLOODS WHICH SWEPT MONTEREY MEXICO PLAYED FEARFUL HAVOC ave over r five hundred bodies recovered property loss kossof of twenty million dollars and thousands in need of assistance monteray Mon teroy Al mexico exico twelve hi him in dred and perhaps more people per J dished friday night and saturday in III IH the flood which swept a large portion 1 of this city conservative estimates tv ft place the property damage at 2 20 U fifteen thousand people alt aie U homeless more alore than bodies aa have been reco recovered verel CZ i the river has tallen considerably f V and while still high the danger Is I 1 over seventeen and a halt Iti inches elies bf b rain fell during friday saturday and 1 sunday the roin was a steady downa pour and at no time approached a tw cloudburst 1 the greatest loss of life occurred w saturday morning between 9 and 11 when the large buildings on y the south side of the river commenced C to crumble many of the houses had ff tj front from one hundred to two hundred c people on their roofs and all cisal alsap i feared in the hood flood in one school bul building dIng ninety wo wen nien and children were ar drowned owned they had hurried to the school tor for safety but the water drove them i from room to room until they were all t clustered in one room and while two V priests were performing some lous fous rites the walls fell and all were 4 sy swallowed up tip in the floods A Thou thousands of people were standing ding on the north bank of the river unable J to render aid to the unfortunates on w the buildings on the south side aide for fio nothing thing could have lived in ao 60 the cur rent of the santa catarina which was halt half a mile wide and flowing swiftly watchers saw buildings rr loaded with people collapse and the 3 people disappeared in the water there Is scarcely an estable establishment sh anent jay in the city that did not lose em cm inores |