Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1891 — A CLOUD BURST. [ARTICLE]

A CLOUD BURST.

Fifty Lives Lost in Mexico In a Flood** Mine. A terrible catastrophe occurred on Sunday last near the mining city of Cotorece in the Stato of San Luis Potosi, Mexico A cloud burst on Concepcion mountain and a great stream poured down the mountain side, sweeping everything in its way The habitations occupied by the miner! were swept away and the tunnel of Guadalupe mines filled with water, drown Inf several miners who were working inside A number of people living in cliff dwellings were buried alive. At Lacruces anc* El Potrero, on oue side of the mountain and Los Catorcce on the other, fifteen dead bodies have been recovered and there are believed to be many more. The mining companies’ losses are heavy. Large quantities of high-grade ore were carried away by the flood at the Conception property, Hundreds of pack animals were drowned and roads destroyed. These are the meager detail so far received from this remote district, though people knowing the locality believe there must have been as least fifty lives lost