The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01
DEATH TOLL
 GOES HIGHER Serious Situation in
 Stricken City. MONTEREY LACKS SUPPLIES Now Believed Two Thousand Are
 Victims. Approximately One Thousand Bodies Have Been Recovered-Governme Actively Prosecutes Great Work
 of Relief.

Monterey. Mexico. Aug. 3i.-Tonight the total number of bodies recovered from along the shores of the Santa Catarina river victims of the flood to- tai approximately 1000. In Monterey 300 is the total while meagre reports from along the valley increases the number However. but little Is yet known as to the loss of life and dam age 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 chan nels.
 Reports continue meagre from points down the valley, but 1t Is known that the village of San Francisco was en- tirely destroyed: the town of San Juan badly damaged and the town Of Camargo on the Rio Grande Is re- ported to have been completely wash ed away.
 A rider from the town of Cadereyta. this state, the birthplace of General Geronimo Trevino, stated to the As- sociated Press correspondent that hundreds were seen floating by with the flood and that on his trip from Cadereyta to Monterey there was not a depression in the ground or an ar royo which did not contain from one to ten bodies left there by the reced- ing flood.
 No Americans Lost. A complete list of the dead is abso- lutely unobtainable. but no Americans | or other foreigners were lost as none of them resided in the flooded dis- | trict.
 The entire northern part of the state | of Nueyo Leon has been flooded and | towards Tampico in the state of Tam l aulipas alarming reports have been received. Nothing definite Is known however, as telegraph communication
 has not yet been opened with this ols' | trict.
 Relief in the shape of money hal l been pourings in from all sources to | day and large amounts have been con frIbuted from the United States I Ciethes, food suppliea and money ' I needed to care for the hoMetess ah' l destitute. The response has beeI large and noble but uses for the mon ey win be found and more especiaii' l when the full reports from down tn l valley are learned. How to suppi' 1 food and water has now become . ss | rious problem. I . | ed for the sufferers and all are De l fns taken care of with the best of tns means at hand. The water works com pany was able to get supply or VI. ter in the city main today from wha' ia known as the low pressures service which heretofore had not been m op- eration, so that the danger Of a wa ter famine has been removed The 1000 sunnIv continues short but there has been no increase in the price or any thing needed for the people. Loss Reaches Millions.
 The property loss is now estimated at hetween Sl20O0,000 and $16.O0O,OoO in this city without counting the damage to the railroads or down the valley from this city. The plant of the American Smeitlns and Refining Company here was an- iniured by the flood. but the plant or the Monterey Smelling and Refining Couananv was badly damaged. The Monterey Steel plant was oadly hurt and will be unable to work under three months.
 The railroad situation remains un- changed, but officials state that a train will arrive early tomorrow Ireln san Laredo and that trains will leave Tor Laredo at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn ing. c,,.-. however. before another forty-eight hours and then they will be detoured from Monterey over the Mexican Cen traps Baredon branch to Saltillo. NO Tampico train will leave this city for fifteen days at least and train service on the Matamoros branch is suspended for an indefinite period. The Inter- national Is unable to get a train through from Reata to Monterey and it will probably be several days be- fore this line is opened. Tho Na- tional is badly damaged between there and SaltiIlo and it will probably be ten days before this line is in opera tion and in the meantime the trains to Mexico City will be operated over the Paredon route.
 The Santa Catarina river drains watershed comprising 1000 square miles and some idea of the amount of water can be obtained when it is said that the actual flow of water in the Santa Catarina river at the height of the flood Saturday morning was one half of the flow of the Nile and one- fourth of the flow of the Mississippi when these rivers are at their highest flood stage. The Santa Catarina river has a fall of one per cent at Monterey and by actual measurement by engi- neers of the water and drainage com panv 1t was ascertained that the cur rent attained a velocity of twenty feet per second. or thirty .smiles an hour.