Evening star., 1909-08-31
Dead Estimated at 1000.

MONTERREY, Mexico. August 3l.-Many
food refugees are struggling into Mon
ierey from nearby towns and are pleading
Tor food supplies. 1t is stated that the sit
nation III the country districts is even
worse than in Monterey. In some locali-
ties every particle of food supplies is ex-
hausted and the people are obtaining a
nourishment from roots and leaves of
cacti and other desert plants
Until railroad communication is estab-
lished IT will be impossible to send aid
to some of the towns. 1t will be two
weeks before the railroads leading. from
Monterey and Matamoras are placed in
repair, II Is stated by officials of tne Sc
hhes. The wagon roads are impassabie
All Of the bridges are gone and water
still covers the low county To a depth of
several feet
With eight hundred bodies recovered
and buried III Monterey up to last night.
tmo thousand is now the estimate of the
CITY authorities of those who lost their
lives throughout the valley of the Santa
, Catarina river. The number OF homeless.
many destitute, is placed at 1900 and
oo,epo
The Santa Catarina river at Monterey
has subsided sufficiently 10 permit a pas
sage into the district lying to the south.
and a visit to that section by a CORE
spondent revealed an appalling condition
People who had been saved from the
food OF Saturday morning had been with
OUT food until Yesterday, when a smal Il
amount of bread and beans was gotten
across. The river was still running
swiftly. and in order to get across il was
~ do fhrptpb halt
of water so as to avoid the strong cur
rent which would still sweep man from
bis feet.
Once on the south side Of the river
evidences of the terrible destruction
wrought by the flood were to be seen on
every hand. Five blocks OF the district
were as though they had never existed
and in the remaining portion of the dis
trict bodies We're being taken from the
ruins and buried by a party of gendarmes
sent across for the purpose.
~ o'clock 400 bodies had been recoy-
cred and were buried on the hillside south
Of San Luisito, thus, with the same num-
Der buried yesterday, making in al sU
bodies which have been recovered III
Monterey alone.
No Americans Lost
Thus far Americans have been re.
ported lost. anu IL is not expected that
any of them are missing, as few of for.
eign families resided III the flooded dis
trict. Reports from the country up anc
down the valley are mcager and hard tt
obtain, as all telegraph communicative
has been cut off in these directions. bu
from what has been learned the number
OF dead has been placed at a,O0t and tn.
homeless at between 5000 and o1,sD per
sens. Most of these people are in desti
tute circumstances, and relief is badI,
needed.
i.ei Urts from down the river state tina
many bodies have been recovered, bu
here are many that will never be ac
eounted for. Us the Santa Catarna bed 1
illed with quicksands and many OF thos
,oSt have no doubt disappeared in thes
sands.
The authorities are doing all i'm thei
power and the federal government ha
sent Jo.G0O in money and provisions 70
The relief of the sufferers. Contribution
have been received from San Antonio an,
New York city firms which have agencie
IN this city have authorized their repre-
senfatives TO contribute liberaily TO an,
,und being raised for relief in this vi
.inity.
Many houses have fallen from the ef
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