Show THOUSAND DROWNED FLOODS WHICH SWEPT MONTE REY MEXICO PLAYED FEAR FUL HAVOC over five hundred bodies ered property loss of twenty mill on dollars and thousands in need of ass stance monterey mexico twelve hun dred and perhaps more people per dished friday night and saturday in the flood which swept a large coition of this city conservative estimates place the property damage at fo 90 fifteen thousand people are homeless more alore than bod es have been recovered the river has fallen considerably and while still high the danger is over seventeen bev enteen and a half inches of rain tell fell during friday saturday batur day and sunday the rain was a steady down pour and at no time approached a do clo the greatest loss of ute lite oce erred saturday morning between 9 and 11 clock when the large buildings on the south side of the river commenced to crumble many of the hou es had from one hundred to two hundred people on their roofs and all digap feared in the flood in one school bu iding ninety wo men and children drowned they had hurried to the school foi safety but the water drove I 1 them from rom room to room until they were v ere all clustered in one toon roon and while two priests were performing some to 10 is rites the walls tell fell and all were swallowed up in the floods thousands of people were vere standing on the north bank of the river unable to render aid to the unfortunates on the buildings on the south side tor for nothing could have lived in the cur rent of the santa catarina which was halt half a mile wide and fia floding ving swiftly watchers saw buildings loaded with people collapse and the people disappeared in the vater v ater there Is scarcely an establishment in the city that did not lose em ein aloyes |