A DISASTROUS FLOOD.
(Per s.s. Sierra at Auckand)
AUCKLAND, October 2
A message from Mazutlan (Mexico), dated August 26th, says:—A large portion of this city is in ruins as the result of the most disastrous .flood in the history of the port. Twenty days of incessant rain throughout the Pacific Coast region made the whole of the lower country -a vast sea cf water. There has been much suffering since the waters subsided from the destruction of the waterworks system. The only water supply is from cisterns and wells, and these are few in number. The waters of the bay supplemented the waters that poured down from inland, and scores of houses on the beach were swept away. The broad boulevard from the city to the sea was completey destroyed. The city has a population of twenty-five thousand, and hundreds are homeless. Hundreds of thousands of Wres of 'Cultivated lands along the coast bav6 been devastated. The losses to sugar planters will run into millions of dollars.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8250, 3 October 1906, Page 6
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167A DISASTROUS FLOOD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8250, 3 October 1906, Page 6
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