Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1909 — Flood at Monterey, Mexico, Results In Many Deaths. [ARTICLE]

Flood at Monterey, Mexico, Results In Many Deaths.

The overflow of the Santa Catalina river, at Monterey, Mexico, has caused something like 1,500 deaths, made some 15,000 homeless, and caused the destruction of $30,000,000 worth of property. Over 800 bodies have been picked up and buried along the river banks, the water is subsiding and much assistance is being rushed to the scene of the terrible disaster, American aid being especially liberal. Clifford Crowell and wife, formerly of Lafayette, he being a 1898 Purdue graduate, are residents of Mohterey, and failing to hear from them after the flood, Miss Lou Smith, a sister of Mrs. Crowell, of Lafayette, left Monday for Monterey, fearing the Crowells had lost their lives.