The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-27
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS
City of Santa Rosa Resembles Arm
 of Sea.
storm Accempanying Iacessant Rain- fsiI Was the Most Dissstrous Ever Ksews-Creps are De- stroyed and Rich Acres
 Under Water.

Mexico City. Oct. 2s.-An estimated loss of 5.ooo.ooo pesos. including crops of corn. beans and other grain, fruit
 and fine hard woods, two lives known
 to be lost and many others it Is feared sacrificed in the floods hundreds of
 homes in country and town washed away and thousands of head of cattle drowned are the known results of the
 disastrous cloud burst and storm that
 broke over the State of Tabasco yes terday. following twenty-one days of
 incessant rain all over this region. arc inundated thousands are homeless
 and no relief is yet in sight.
 From north to south. extending across | the state from the Mescalpa and the Grijalva rivers. which take the two names after forking near Huinaguilto
 to the banks of the usumacinta, which ! for a short distance marks the boun-
 dary between Chiapas and Guatemala. the entire country Is total waste. Only the high mountain villages and I plateau farms escaped from the terrific onslaught of the waters.
 | Five hundred families are homeless
 in the city of Atasta alone. Other cities and towns inundated are Muin- aguilto. Tenosique. Jaiapa. Tiaeotal-
 pam. Tlapa. Santa Rosa and . number
 of smaller villages along the Mescalps
 River. while the south border Of the
 State of Jonuta, Balacna, Carmen, Pal
 izada and Santa Rita in the valley of
 the Usumacinta River are badly dam
 aged as the result of the flood. 1 Record for Rainfall.
 | A total of thirty-two and one-half inches of water has fallen in the State
 in three weeks. which Is the record for
 waterfall in thirty-two years.
 l A large part of the lower section of San Juan Bautista is under water. The. barrio of Santa Cruz has been totally depopulated and the water Is three and four feet deep in many l househ gTesnpDrary lodging houses
 have been .fitted up by the aathofities of San Juan Bautista and more than 1000 people are being fed and lodged at the eity's expense.
 | So complete IS the inundation of
 Santa Rosa that 1t resembles an arm of the sea. Streets. parks and gardens are inundated by three feet of water | and the poptila ton is living on roofs,
 shivering and starving, praying for the waters to recede.
 Jalapa suffered heavy losses on ac-
 count of the flood and many Indian
 huts have been destroyed, compelling
 the occupants to seek relief from the
 town authorities Similar conditions
 prevail at Tlacotalpam and Tlapa. Reports from the interior state that the storm accompanying the heavy rain
 was the most disastrous known in this
 section In years. Forests of mahogany and of cedar were uprooted by the
 force of the wind and rain and thous-
 ands of trees washed away. Cattle
 ranches also suffered heavily, stock be-
 ing drowned as the herds fled from the
 big rain and were washed into the treacherous streams.
 Every crop in the State trayersed by
 the storm Is thought to be destroyed.
 while thousands of acres are under wa ter. The State government is assisting the stricken cities and it is likely the Governor will send out an appeal to the Federal Government for aid.