The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-01
Many More Lives We're Lost In the Disastrous Flood
 At Monterey
RELIEF POURING IN
 FROM ALL QUARTERS
Property Loss Will Amount to Over $12,ooo,ooo and Several Thousand Homeless People Must
 Be Provided For.

Monterey, Mex, August 31 31.-Tonight the
 total number of bodies recovered from
 along the shores of the Santa Catarina
 river victims of the flood totals ap-
 proximatey 1000. In Monterey 900 is the
 total, while meagre reports from along
 the valley increase the number How
 ever, but little is yet known as to the
 loss of life and damage outside of this
 city. That the entire number lost will
 ever be known is not probable as many
 bodies must be buried in the sands and
 mud deposited by the falling river in the
 eddies caused by the numerous turns and
 bends in the streams channel. Reports continue meagre from points
 down the valley but it is known that the village of San Francisco entirely de- stroyed; the town of San Juan badly dam-
 aged, and the town of Camargo. on the
 Rio Grande, is reported to have been com
 pletely washed away.
 A rider from the town of Cadereyta,
 this state, the birthplace of Gen. Geroni-
 mo Trevino, stated to the Associated
 Press correspondent that 20 bodies have
 been recovered at that place. that hun dreds were seen floating by with the flood
 and that on his trip from Cadereyta to Monterey there was not depression in
 the ground an arroyo which did not contain from one to 10 bodies, left there by the receding flood
 ! complete list of the dead Is abso- lutely unobtainable, but no American or
 other foreigners were lost, as none of
 them resided in the flooded district Alarming Reports. l The entire northern part of the state of | Nuevo Leon has been flooded, and toward
 Tampico. in the state of Tamaulipas, alarming reports have been received Nothing definite is known, however, as | telegraph communication has not yet been | opened with this district
 Relief in the shape of money has been pouring in from all sources today, and
 large amounts have been contributed from the United States. Clothes, food l supplies and money are needed to care for | the homeless and destitute. The response | has been large and noble. but uses for | the money will be found, and more es- pecially when the full reports from down the valley are learned.
 Temporary shelters are being erected for
 the sufferers, and all are being taken care of with tn best of the means at hand. The Water Works company was able to get a supply of water in the city main today | from what is known as the low pressure service, which heretofore had not been | in operation, so that the danger of a water famine has been removed The food supply continues short but there has been no increase in the price of anything
 needed for the people.
 The property loss is now estimated at between $l2G00.000 and sl50O0,000 in thls city without counting the damage to tho railroads or down the valley from this city.
 The plant Of the American Smelting and Refining eomrsny here was uninjured by the flood, hut the plant of the Monterey Smelting and Refining company was bad | ly damaged.
 The Monterey Steel plant was badly | hurt and will be unable to work under | three months.
 No Railroad Service. | The railroad situation remains un- | changed, but officials state that train 1 will arrive early tomorrow from Laredo. No trains will leave for Mexico City, l however, before another 4s hours and then l they will te detoured from Mont arey | over the Mexican Centrars Paredon l branch to Saltillo. No Tampico train will | leave this city for 15 days at leas. and | train service on the Matamoros branch
 is suspended for an indefinite period. The 1 International is unable to get tram l through Reata to Monterey and it will | probably he several days before this line Is opened. The National is badly dam aged between there and Saltilo and it will probably be 10 days before this lire is in operation and in the meantime the trains to Mexico City will be operated over the TaIedon route.
 The santa Catarina river drains watershed comprising 1000 square miles, l and some idea of the amount of water | gan be obtained when it Is said that | the actual flow of water in the Santa l Catarina rIver at the height of the food 1 Saturday morning one-half of the | flow of the Nile and one-fourtb of the | flow of the Mississippi when these rivers | are at their highest flood stage The | Santa Caferina river has a fall of l | per cent at Monterey and by actae, fneas- | urement by engineers of the water aud 1 drainage company it was ascortained
 that the current attained velocity of ] 20 feet Ter second 3o miles an hour. l