FLOODS IN MEXICO.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10240, 1 September 1909, Page 4

FLOODS IN MEXICO.

CITIES DESTROYED; .lIUNd, PERISH. U|

[By Electric .Telegraph—Cop?|

(Per Press' Association,) | Received August 31, at 9.35 Mexico, August'! Fourteen hundred persons porislji Monterey. One-fourth of tho J destroyed. The water inning ntj'. less, consequently there is no dftj water. A famine .is feared. ™ A thousand refuged in tho caty churches, and schools. ™ Si any buildings soaked with .J; continue to collapse slowly, the deatli roll. > The collapse of the reservoir the chief cause of the terery, which lies in the contre, cup-liko valley, with steep mnilr , on three sides, from which the w rushed, swelling tho current of, river. Subscriptions are pouring in parts of Mexico.