Show P w u u bieg fa FLOODS WHICH SWEPT MONTE REY MEXICO PLAYED FEARFUL HAVOC over 1 five hundred bodies recovered property loss of twenty million dollars and thousands Thou sandu in need of assistance s monterey mexico twelve hundred and perhaps more people perished friday night and saturday in an the nood flood which swept ta ia large portion of df this city conservative estimates place the property damage daniago at 20 fifteen thousand people are homel homeless esq more alore than bodies have been recovered the river has fallen considerably and while still high the danger is over seventeen and a half inches ot of rain fell during friday saturday and sunday the rain was a steady downpour and at no time approached a cloudburst the greatest loss of life occurred saturday morning between 9 and 11 when the large buildings on oil the south side of the river commenced t to crumble many of the houses had from one hundred to two hundred people on their roofs and all dilall feared in ili the nood flood in one school building ninety women and children were drowned they had hurried to the school tor for safety but the water drove them from room to room until they were all clustered in one room and while two priests were performing some religious gitles the walls fell pid and all were swallowed up in the floods thousands of people were standing on the north bank of the river unable to render aid to the unfortunates on oil the ahe buildings on the south side aide for nothing could have lived in the current of the santa catarina which was half a mile wide and flowing swiftly watchers saw buildings loaded with people collapse and the people disappeared in the water there is scarcely an establishment in the city that did not lose em aloyes |