The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-09-02
FLOOD STRICKEN MONTEREY IS
WITHOUT MEANS FOR
SHIPPING IT IN
PROVISIONS ON THE WAY
THERE HAS BEEN; LITTLE SUE
FERlNG FOR WANT OF
t. FOOD THUS FAR

"oHtViCy, Hu6. OV-pp W tIh SUI
500 bodies have been recovered and
buried, The city authorities now es-
innate 1000 lost their lives. The
number of homeless is placed at 1900
to 10000
Today the river subsidized sufficiently
to permit passage southwark. II was
found the people of that section were
without food from Saturday until TO
ay when some bread and beans were
gotten across.
Evidences of the. terrible destruction
wrought south OF the river are TO !
everywhere. Five blocks of the dis
trict, were as though they had never
existed In the remaining port n
he district bodies are being Ia en-
from the ruins by gendarmos. Fod
hundred were recovered and brri d
today and a similar number yeste .
day. making 500 in the city alone.
Reports from up and down the vail "
are meagre as the telegraph is cut o
but the whole number of dead is plac d
at 1000. .tttr Htf1
Many bodies may be recovered down
the river but many will never be &C
counted for, as tie river bed is I'll ed
with quicksand.
The government has sent 900 in
money and provisions
SOUP is FURNISHED
Laredo Tex, Aug. 3O-Few OF tho
housands of homeless at Monterey
have been permitted to go hungry
Four soup kitchens are doing OF
soup, coffee and bread to, the ,ns ely.
The rich as well iias the poor have
been nconveniencedsby. being comTell-
ed to leave their residences in the dis
riot along the slope. toward the river.
| OF upward of 400 bodies recovered,
thirty per cent were identified and in
TERED today. Others are besinniny to
decompose and will be buried tomor-
row.
Seventy-five miles of railroad ard
several bridges were washed away.
There is no train service to Laye9o
THE LOSSES LARGE
Mexico City, Aug. 30-The president
today telegraphed 10000 to Monterey,
The vice president contributed $1,000,
and Ambassador Thompson $1,000
Subscriptions are opened in all parts
Of the republic, ...E
Bank officials estimate the less of
business to Monterey will be $4,000, 0C0
The loss to industrial plants outside
he city will be a similar amount. TIE
value. of the eighteen block of buila-
ngs destroyed, mostly of poor con
struction, was about $4,000, 900 Rail
way losses, it is believed. will reach
| "a, 000,0 900. It is estimated the losses
If the whole district will approxima
$50 600, 900. .. .
! Gen. Reyes is said to have left his
nountnin retreat to come to the aid o
| he people of Monterey. Reyes has
oeen practically surrounded by troops
| or fortnight, and the announc ement
hat he is going 10 Monterey created
| much comment, on account of the pos
sible political complications.
400 ARE DEAD
A conservative estimate of the dam
Iage-wrought at Monterey by the focl
places the dead at 400. and property
oss at s12,000,000. The river Is now
| Town and the danger over. About $50
| bodies have ben recovered One entire
| quarter of Monterey is destroyed and
Is, 900 persons are homeless. Water
mains are useless and the city is with
put drinking water, neither Is there
light nor street ear service. 1t will
De impossible to resume train service
! or week, and as result the city
| s threatened with food famine, Ten
thousand persons are being fed on
oread coffee and soup by the mnnioi
| pal authorities, and the American con-
sulate is giving food to all who apply
Thousands have taken refuge in the
churches.
Many adobe structures are falling
and there has been some additional
oss OF life from this cause.
The railroad situation Is deplorable
| bridges and tracks having been de-
| stroyed. The total loss to railroads
will probably exceed 100000
Eighteen blocks of residences and
| business houses are entirely washed
lway. The greatest loss OF life Is saii
| o have been caused by the giving
| iway of the reservoir dam. Monterev
s situated in cup-like valley and
surrounded on three SIDES by stfep
Mountains The water rushed into this
valley and down the bed Of the Santa
Catarina river. which srread from is
ordinary $50 yards to fully three-Guar
.ers of. mile wide II is estimated
hat eighteen inches of rain fell ri e
| FEDERAL authorities are busy with or
yanization of relief measures Sub
scription lists are being opened al
| over Mexico