FLOODS IN MEXICO.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10242, 3 September 1909, Page 4

FLOODS IN MEXICO.

100 MILES OF WATER. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received September 3, at 8.25 a.m. Mexico, September 2. There are terrible scenes at Monterey. One thousand bodies have been recovered, some "from the branches of trees and others from the roofs of houses. The Rio Grande Valley is under water, the flood being nearly-100 miles broad. * - . Several towns in Texas are flooded. The San Juan river is 20 miles wide where it joins the Rio Grande.