THE MEXICAN FLOODS
.«. MEXICO. August 31. Fourteen hundred people perished at Monterey. One-fourth of the city was destroyed. The water mains are unless, and consequently there is no drinking water. A famine is feared. Thousands of people took refuge in the cathedral, churches, and schools. Many buildings, soaked with water, continue to collapse slowly, adding to the death roll. The collapse of a reservoir and dam was th'O chief caufe of the fatalities at Monterey, which lies in tho centre of a cup-like valley, with steep mountains on three sides. Subsci iptions ar.e pouring in from all parts of Mexico. September 1 ■ Two thousand persons perished at Monterey and in the Santa Caterina Valley. The moretary kvs is estimated at £6.000,000. September 2. There were terrible scenes at Monterey, where 1000 bodies have been recovered, some from, the branches of trees and roofs of house.?. The Rio Grande Valley i« under water, the flood being nearly 100 mile- bio id. Several towns in Texas are flooded. The San Juan River i« 20 miles wide whe:e it joins the Rio Grande.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 24
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180THE MEXICAN FLOODS Otago Witness, Issue 2895, 8 September 1909, Page 24
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