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Show STORM CAUSED RISE IN RIVER Fearful Loss of Life as Result of High Waters, Six Hundred Houses Being Demolished. Monterey, Mex. Fourteen lives woro lost nnd much property destroyed in this city early Wednesday by an overllow of tho Santa Catarina river. Some estimates plnco the number of dend as high as fifty. Tho exact figures fig-ures will never bo known,'ns tho district dis-trict at San Lulslto, where most ot tho damage occurred, is inhabited by tho poorer class mostly, and many occupied oc-cupied houses which woro washed away. Moro titan COO houses were demolished de-molished in this ono district, and practically all thoso now standing aro moro or less damnged. Many families fami-lies lost all their possessions. In the city proper several houses caved In as a result of tho storm, and tho dnmngc all over the city has been groat. |