Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — LOSS WILL BE MILLIONS [ARTICLE]

LOSS WILL BE MILLIONS

Great Ranches and Mining Camps Are Swept by Flood. El Paso, Tex., Oct. 13.—1 n the tidal wave which swept the southern Mexican seaports three or four big ranches near Guyamas, among them the San Jose, had all their buildings and cattle washed away and the loss to these is over a million dollars. Santa Rosalia, a copper camp in Lower Californa, suffered to the extent of five millions of dollars. This is an American concern and the Guggenheims are said to be interested in it. The Southern Pacific railroad at Guyamas, Empalrae and all the way north in Souora almost to Hermosillo, the state capital, is said to be washed away and practically all bridges and much steep grading destroyed Throughout the coast country of Sinaloa and Sonora, the damage has beer, tremendous and dead bodies, as weli as the carcasses of cows and horses, are hanging in trees, where they were left by the flood.