Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-03
LIVES LOST IN STORMS.

A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that no news has been received
directly from Guanajuato regarding a
great food in that mining city, now the
important seat of activity by several
large American and British companies.
The wires were down all day Saturday
and the roads were impossible Two
reports are current. One says 200
were killed; another says at least 100
were drowned.
Late tidings are that Guanajuato is
completely flooded, and water is already
invading the higher parts of the town,
while there is fear that "Laolla" dam
may give way, which would mean COM
plete and general ruin The city is
built in a great G 'rge in the mountains,
and the streets ranble up the noun
tainside in picturesque fashion.
A storm began furiously on the night
of June 80, and after midnight no one
of the inhabitants dared TO go to bed, so
tremendous was the fury OF the elements
The water rose in the lower or business
streets, flooding shops and damaging
thousands of dollars worth of merchan-
disc.
The lower streets became raging tor
rents as the water poured in rivers down
the upper streets. Doors were smashed
in by the force of the water, and windows
were no protection against the furious
food.
The authorities worked strenuously to
get the people safely from their homes to
the higher part of the city. The loss of
property, it is said, will be immense.
Later advces state that it is known
that over a hundred lives were lost at
Guanajuato.
The Mexican Central northbound pas.
senger train ran into a washout north of
Irapuato and was derailed, the water run
ming over some of the cars. President
Robinson, of the railroad, says some lives
were lost, but he does not know how
many.
The town of Maraflo, just below
Guansjuato, was completely wiped out.
Another dispatch to President Robin
son, of the Mexican Central, says that
there are |, 200 dead at Guanajuato.
The raging water is carrying the dead
through every street. The water is up
to the second story of the Hotel Union.
Great damage has been wrought to the
street car line, and service cannot be
resumed inside month. There is only
one way the people can get to Maraflo,
which is by mules and afoot.
The rain storm which began at Ma
lone, n. Y, continued undated yester-
day, and the streams and rivers are all
above high-water mark. Two women
were killed BY lightning at Madrid and
one at Dickinson. InnumerabIe wash
outs are reported on the railroads and
all grain and crops on moderately low
land are completely ruined.
A cloudburst occurred at Ithaca, n.
Y, yesterday which threatened repeti-
ton of the food of June 81. The rain
was accompanied by a severe electric
storm, during which several barns were
struck and burned. Streets on the hill
leading from Cornell campus we're trans
formed into torrents, which flooded base
ments and caused a suspension of street
car traffic. At Willow Creek, eight miles
from Ithaca, Lehigh Valley passenger
train ran into a landslide, but escaped
Injury beyond the wrecking of the loco
motive pilot
A dispatch from Delrio, Texas, says
that eighteen lives are known to have
been lost as a result of a cloudburst in
the mountains near the town Of Las
Vegas. Two of the deaths were Ameri-
can children, who were washed away
before the eyes of large, panic-stricken
crowd. The loss and damage to proper
ty has not been great.