TOWN ENGULFED
MUD AND SAND
RESULT OF DAM'S COLLAPSE MEXICAN DISASTER t?nit»d Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyrisht. . (Received May 28, 2,30 p.m.) \ MEXICO CITY, May 27. Thirty-two bodies have been recovered and 100 more people possibly are dead as the result of the collapse of a dam burying the town of Tlalpujahua, Michoacan State, under mud and sand from the metal workings of the Dos Estrellas Mining Company. / ' Heavy rains overtaxed the dam and 700 dwellings were engulfed while the inhabitants were asleep at three o'clock in the morning. /
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 10
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88TOWN ENGULFED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 125, 28 May 1937, Page 10
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