FATAL CLOUD-BURSTS.
TWO HUNDRED KILLED. THOUSANDS WITHOUT FOOD. TOTAL DAMAGE, £4,000,000. TWO TOWNS DESTROYED. By Telegraph.— Ttoitt Association.—Copyright Mexico City, July 15. Disastrous cloudbursts, followed by floods, have laid waste a large area of the Slate of Guanajuato, in Central Mexico. The towns of Celaya and Salamanca were destroyed. Two hundred people were killed. Property valued at twenty million dollars (£4,000,000) has been destroyed in Santiago Valley. Sieveral inousand people are faced ' by starvation. DENVER CITY FLOODED SEVERAL LIVES LOST: 500 . HOMELESS.. New York, July 15. A cloudburst occurred at Denver (the capital of Colorado) to-day, with the result that the whole city was flooded. Several lives were lost and 500 people are homeless. The population of Denver is al out 150,000, that of Celaya about 20,000, and that of Salamanca upwards of 10,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15047, 17 July 1912, Page 9
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