Show aft THOUSAND DROWNED FLOODS W WHICH SWEPT MONTE REY MEXICO PLAYED FEAR FUL HAVOC over five hundred bodle bodies ered property loss of ef twenty rw eity million dollar dollars and thousands in n need of assistance monterey mexico twelve hun dred and perhaps more people perished friday night and saturday in the flood which sopt a large portion of at this city conservative estimates etl mate place the property damage at 20 fifteen thousand people aro are homeless more afore than bodies have been recovered the river haa has alien fallen considerably and while till still high the dinger Is 1 over seventeen and a half indies inches ot of rain tilt fill during friday saturday and sundy sund y the rain waa was a steady down asur cur and at no time approached a soud cloudburst burst the greatest loss less of lire life occurred saturday morning between 9 and 11 II 0 clock when the large buildings on the south bide side ot of the river commenced to crumble many blany of the hodhes had from one hundred to two hundred people on their roofs and all disappeared in the flood in one school building ninety women and children vere ere drowned they had hurried to the school for but the water drove them from room to room roona until they were all clustered in one room and while two priests were performing some religious rites the walls fell feli and all were swallowed up in the floods thousands of people were standing on the north bank ot of the river unable to render aid to the unfortunates on the buildings on the south side for nothing could have lived in the cur rent ran of the santa catarina Catar lna which WAX was half halt a mile ratio wide and flowing swiftly watchers Wat chera saw building buildings loaded with people collapse and the people disappeared in the water there la in scarcely an establishment in the city etty that did not loee lose em aloyes |