The Daily Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 246, Ed. 1 Friday, September 3, 1909 Page: 2 of 14
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THE SAN ANTONIO DAILY EXPRESS: FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909.
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WORK OF REBUILDING
MONTEREY IS BEGUN
EVERY EFFORT BEING MADE TO
REPAIR GREAT DAMAGE.
Entire Eiocks of Residences Are De-
molished—Humboldt, One of tho
Setter Residence Street*, Mass
of Crumbling Runs.
SCENES DURING AND AFTER THE MONTEREY FLOOP.
Special Telegram to Tho Express.
MONTEREY, Mexico, Sept. 2.—The
«vork of reconstructing Monterey has be-
gun In earnest ami every effort Is being
made to repair that part of tho damage
possible within tlie shortest possible time.
Entire blocks of residence houses were
demolished, anil the occupants were burled
under the debris, hundreds of whom will
never he unearthed.
Humboldt Street, one of tho better reRl.
denec Streets. Juft one block removed
from fashionable c'liiio llld.tlgo, Is n mass
of crumbling ruins anrl It Is iin this street
thai the larger number of lives this side
of the river were lost.
On the south side there are estimated
to have heeu some DO0 houses destroyed
and about 1500 lives lost. On the north
side of Monterey proper there are thought
to have been Just as many houses ruined,
the greater number of which were more
substantial buildings, many of which
The top picture shows a
etreet after the first flood.
Three blocks of business houses
south froin thi$ point collapsed
in thirty minutes.
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The middle picture is a view
looking toward San Lulslto ai
the flood came up.
The bottsm picture shows
( wherp the flood was so wide as
to wreck eleven block# back
from the river.
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And we'll fit any man no matter
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FRANK BROS.
Alamo Plaza
2 STORES
Commerce St.
charges into the stream to bo ween no
more.
Thin was but one of rcoich of imidonts
where death was the late of those who
would be of aid to their fellown.
When the flood was at its height the
streets of Monterey wero Unco-rtppp ca-
naif, traffle of every character at a
ptandstill, pave for the work of the house-
holders who es';iped from the flood dlf-
tiifts, who wore (<• he seen mailing their
way. struggling; under a bed, a Fev/lng
maehine, a bundle »»f clothing or a wp.rdi-
st^nd, toward the government buildings
or tlie residence of the arehbishop. By
noon of Haturdav- every bufldlnn which
(ould afford shelter was crowded and
by afternoon the first efforts toward the
relief of the stricken were made, when
food was found for hundreds By Sunday
morning the municipal and state authori-
ties were feeding neaily 70»X) persons, but
it w;is impossible to K^t relief t<» tl ose
in tlie S*jiii Luisito district until Tuesday
morning liundreUs were without food
for forty-eight hours before relief was
secured.
ADDS TO HORRORS.
To add to tlie mlaery of the situation,
the municipal water riant was rendered
useless and for aeveral days the city de-
pended entirely upon tlie supply stored in
cisterns. This w;:s particularly hard on
tho poor, who depend mainly upon the
free supply obtained near the river. The
municipal authorities provided bread arid
coffee for tlie homelesa and shelter was
found in the Teatro Juarez, archbishop's
palace, high school, penitentiary, state
palace and other large buildings. Many
of the homes in the poorer districts have
been made dangerous, owing to the In-
cessant rains, which have weakned not
too well constructed walls and roofs.
Scarcely a building in the entire city
remains undamaged to some extent, for
there are not. more than a dozen or so
modern buildings in the business district.
The American consulate was badly dam-
aged by water leaking through tiie roof
and Consul General Manna was obliged to
take up his abode in a hotel.
In tlie action for relief the American
colony played a very important part. As
early as Saturday morning Consul Gen-
eral Hanna and President r.facklin of the
were handsome residences and business
pi ic-eg carrying stock to the amount of
<•'.0.000 in value. This Bide being steeper,
nany were enabled to cscupe on being
warned, but fully 1000 were caught un-
awares and lost their lives.
The Plaza Juarez market place has
been turned into iuge free eating stand
and some 6000 }W>pIe are' getting their
nieals at. that place, made possible only by
the quick response to the needs of the
victims by tho federal government and
outside people.
Large lumber barracks are helm* con-
structed in various p;irts of the city for
the purpose of housing the thousands now
homeless. "Women with babies in their
arms still gr> about the street peering with
tear-dimmed eyes into the faces of all
passersby hoping to find the husband and
father, while men and boys are digging,
relentlessly digging in the accumulated
dust and debris about what were formerly
their homes, hoping to conic across the
mutilated bodies of those dear to them.
One American man, one American wom-
an and one baby are said to comprise the
loss of life among the foreigners of Mon-
terey. Neither ono . of these could be
Identified.
After careful examination in all parts,
there are thought t'» be something over
2500 deaths, and about 70oo rendered
homeless. Property loss in Monterey and
through the immediate valley may run up
to $35,000,000.
Report Bridge as Dangerous.
Special Telegram (o The Kxprew.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Kept. 2,-Pftf-
Kensers arriving on tho Hidalgo branch
train last night report that the railroad
bridge this side, and very near Mercedes,
Is in a dangerous condition, which will
prevent tho branch train reaching Mer-
cedes today. The Llano Grande at that
point in out of its banks and backed into
the Mexican part of tho town.
Liberates 508 on rlis Birthday.
Special Telegram to Tho Express.
GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Kept. 1—As
n ftature of the celebration of his birth-
day Governor Ohregor. Gonzales of tha
utate of Guanajuato released 5U6 prisoners
from tho Guanajuato penitentiary. There
■were 4C>8 men and fifty-five women. All
were being held for minor offenses. The
prisoners remaining in the penitentiary
•were given a dinner at the expense, of
the governor.
Rail Communication Re-established.
Special Telegram to The Express.
EAGLE PASK. Tex., Sept. 2.—Rail com-
munication with Monterey was re-estab-
lished today over the Mexican Interna-
tional. The southbound train this after-
noon went out with Monterey sleeper.
FOOD AND CLOTHES ARE
NEEDED BY SUFFERERS
REV. J. LINDSEY PATTON DE-
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Dcllevca That More Lives Have Been
Bacrir'iced Than Now Estimated.
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HOW FLOOD CAME AND
WRECKED MONTEREY
Speaking Story of Great Tragedy That Made Waste o!
Metropolis of Northern Mexico and Cost Many Lives.
Special Telegram to Tlie Express.
MONTEREY, Mexico, Sept. 2.-"La dlas
trlste"—the sad day! Thus, in the mem-
ory of Monterey, will fcJaturday, August
28, hereafter bo known. And for Mon-
terey it was, Indeed, a sad day, for be-
tween the midnight of Friday and tho
dawn of Sunday more than 2100 lives were
sacrificed to the raging waters of the
Santa Catarlna River, lb,000 persons made
homeless and $12,G03,000 In property laid
waste. And tins disaster foiiewed within
a fortnight a flood wnen not less than 100
wore lost, together with millions In prop-
arty.
V. ithout warning, almost, the death-
dealing torrent swept down upon an area
of more than a nine In lengui and lrom
five to eleven olocks in width, in* most
thickly populated aectton of Monterey con-
taining tne liomes of the poorer class,
wiUuh Inhabited tlio streets on the norm
and south banks of the river which flows
through the city.
in the absence of anything lilt* an offi-
cial record of population, lor among the
working classes the city directory Is some-
thing unknown, even u. close approxima-
tion of the number of deaths will remain
impossible. Little doubt exists that 2tKAi
dead is u very conservative cstiniato, for
tho authorities already have recovered
nearly 800 Dodies and In the Pan Lulslto
section, on the south side of the rlvor, 120
bodies were burled at ono time. Tho
authorities estimate tho number of dend
at double the corpses recovered.
The unprecedented rise In tho Santa
Catarlna River followed upon a rainstorm
which had provnlled without cessation
for nearly forty-eight hours, in which
time stitoen Inches of rain fell in the city.
Conunenlng on Thursday with tho light
rains, typical of Monterey, tho downfall
increased In proportions until on Friday
and Saturday the very heavens seemingly
opened to pour down upon tha Valley of
Monterey such a rainstorm an Is known
only In the "tlerra templada"—temperate
land—of Mexico.
Fed by the countless gorges and gullies
of the mountains,. the Santa Catarlna
flows through the Valley of Monterey
as a trickling brook, usually not nor*
than a half score of feet in width and
barely deserving tlie dignity of being
culled a river. Spanning tlie stream and
joining the north ami south sides of tlie
City or' Monterey is the bridge La Purlsl-
lua, thu Bcene of the valiant stand made
by the Mexican troops when Uachary
Taylor secured the surrender of the
bishops palace, in '-Hi. The old bridge
was replaced a few years ago by a con-
crete structure and the arches over the
river bed were high and wide enough to
permit the passage of the waters 111 the
highest before known stag*.
HOW THE FLOOD CAME.
Tho incescant rains of Friday turned
the mountain gorges Into raging rapids
and by dark the lower western part of
the city was covered with water. Tha
concrete bridge acted as a dam, backing
the waters over the north banks of the
river, until about midnight Friday, when
the Snnta Catarlna, no longer to lie denied,
abandoned the river bed It has followed
for nil of the years that It has been
known to Monterey, cut through three
blocks of business houses and homos
ubovo the south approach to the bridge
nnd In waves twenty feet In height boil!
down upon a terrified people. On tne south
side—In the Ban Lulslto section of Mon-
terey, where the greutost loss of life
took place—the inhabitants had remained
In their homes, only a few of the more
timid having removed their belongings Fri-
day night, whn It became apparent that
tho river would rise. Therefore the un-
leashed maelstrom without warning found
Its viotlms hemmed In on ell sldos, and
as house after house fell Into the muddy
rnplds hundreds of men, women and chil-
dren were swept away. And the waters,
laden with furniture, live stock, trees,
bowlders and carrying millions of tons
of gravel from the mountain gullies, were
cruel to tho victims, as attested In the
horrtMv mutilated corpses that have been
brought by hundreds to the public
morgues,
Wfth the dawn of Bhturdar the scene
waa one that becomes Impossible to de-
pict, the chonolatc-colored Santa Catarlna
turned to roaring rnplds, raging onward,
carrying destruction and death before It.
while the rumbling was lilts that of on
earthquake, seemingly the very city Itself
being shaken In It* foundations, All
tfioattrtr m M the rUnr, tut there «m
no hysteria, no wringing of IiandH nor
shedding of tears. It was tlie dumb de-
spair of the creature that sees Its fellows
stricken iu death. Beyond .-ill human aid,
scores of persons were huddled on house-
tops, in trees, on windmills, everywhere
and anywhere away from tho waters
which whirl, i and worked away with a
grlnmess that staggered all realisation
of the awfulncss of the hour. It became
a fascination to watcli some group on a
housetop, to sco the lack of excitement
among the doomed and watch the whirl-
pool slowly eat through the soft walls
of the abode—then a crash, and where had
stood the building would be but another
eddy ill the rapids.
COMPARE IT WITH HOME.
That tlie scope of the destruction may
bo better understood, ploturc that part of
San Antonio lying southward from the
City Market. Follow ail Irregular course
embracing I lie territory between Laredo
and South Florea Streets and southward
to about Lamm's store; in the center u
graveled river bed, meandering Its way
through the district and about 100 yards
in width, then line tlie streets with one-
story buildings—the typical Mexican
adobes—with here and there a two and
three-story business house. Let that alt
bo destroyed In a space of thirteen hours
and thai Is the Monterey flood!
The bulld'ng material generally used
In Monterey is the *of stone, "ellllr,"
which crumbled beneat: the pressure of
the waters even when it upon solid foun-
dations, and in the collapee of many build-
ing! scores found their deaths, for with
tho subsiding of tho flood many buildings
remain standing, excepting for the wall
which was closest to the waters. Whor-
ever tho waters raged hare been deposit
ed sand end gravel to a depth of six to
ton feet. It Is safe to say that there Is
not a score of buildings In Monterey
which have escoped damage from the
Incessant rainstorm,
Every trarle deed of nature fringe Its
heroes, and Monterey Is not without hers
nnd more than one humble inojo played
the part of * brave man before meeting
hit destli In the flood. Perhaps out of
nil the heroic sets of eelf-saerlflee the
deaths of Brothers Pedro and Junn of
the Fchonl of Cathedral Ban Francisco,
wol furnish striking Illustration, These
young teachers wero on the south side of
the bridge when the weters cairie upon
San Lulslto, Hastening to the little
clinpal where they taught they quickly
eommeneed gathering around them the
Utile children of the neighborhood, until
with nbou* slxtv tlioy started toward tho
hlllt, to find that thev had tarried a
mtnute too Ions and that escape was cut
off. owing to the river having divided Its
waters and cutting a new channel through
what had been • street. They entered the
chapel, and for more than an hour were
to be seen on the roof, comforting the
little ones, and when the waters com-
menced to eat away tho soft walle they
knelt In nr*»#r and a few mlnittes later
WW* swept with their oelf-impoeed
American Association called upon the
authorities and tendpred assistance. The
American Association quickly set aside
$5(irt for the purchase of food supplies,
giving that sum to the municipal author-
ities.
SCORES OF CHILDREN DIE.
Sixty on One Roof Arc Swallowed by
the Maddening Waters.
J. Rlggs, collector for The Dally Ex-
press, who returned yesterday from hl«
vacation spent In Monterey, tells Interest-
ingly of the situation In that city. He
arrived there Wednesday of last week
and was there when the flood came.
"It began to rain the evening I ar-
rived," he said. "It was clear Thursday
morning and showery in tho afternoon.
Friday was showery and Saturday without
any warning the flood came, I did not
see it. Those who aid see it said the
water came in a succession of wai'.c abo"t
twenty feet high. In a very short time all |
the river bottom, which is usually dry,
was flooded. Many of the poor people
live in this low part of the city, but there
are also quite a number of very nice
houses down there. Many persons must
have been crushed under their homes be-
cause the adobe houses could not with-
stand the water. T'.iey crumbled very
quickly. I talked with a man who saw
sixty children and two priests on top of
an adobe building go down when the
building crumbled. There woe no chance
to rescue those who fell In the flood, Tho
water came far out of the banks and over
into the principal streets.
"I could not estimate the number of
the dead. The estimate most frequently
heard tn Monterey won 2000. They will
never know how many were killed. Some
remained under the heavy walls of their
homes. Others were washed away so that
their bodies will be found many miles
downstream and others were burled un-
der shifting sand bars and deposits of
gravel. In the cemetery I saw piles of
bodies, about fifteen or seventeen to tlie
pile. It was a grewsome sight, The
bodies were swollen and the face* wero
black. I do not think the bodies oould
be identified In tho oomHtlon In which I
saw them. When I was In the csmetery
men were digging open old graves, taking
-ut skulls nnd bones In order to Intsr the
' idles of the flood victims,
"Relief headquarters wer# opuned as
soon as possible nnd thero Was a very
large crowd around the door, J should
estimate that there were about 1001 per-
sons about the door of tha building, A
number of young women In carriage*,
carrying trays, came downtown Tuesday
afternoon nnd asked for donation#, Tho
people responded liberally, The carriages
went In a line nnd were followed by carte
into which were thrown clothes, Money
and clothes worn takon to relief headquar-
ters. The people about- tho door of relief
headquarters seemed to be oherful, Thy
were In need but had not suffered, Relief
came promptly from the charitable people
of Monterey.''
Flood Maroon* San Antonlana.
Special Telegram to The Express.
MONTEREY. Mexico. Sept. 2— Among
the San Antonlans marooned In Monterey
during tho flood and until the first train
northward, which went vie Laredo, wero
Rev. J. Lindsay ration, rector ol It.
Mark's; H. E. Aiken, chief clerk of the
Nap; Judge H. H. Nell I of tho Court of
Appeale, Tom O. Dalles, Alfred CHles,
the architect; Rat Corrlgnn Br. and Rat
Igen Jr. and Horace 11, Rhelton, Rev.
Mr. fatten and Mr. Aiken were on their
way home from a fishing trip In the
mountains and stepped over In Monterey,
On the last train to leave the city before
the storm were Misses MeKelier, Onder-
denk and Scott.
Flood Coata Oan Anton Ian Daarly,
Si octal Telegram te The Rapreae,
MONTEREY, Me*Ice, Sept. 1.—Among
the heavy loeere In the flood which ha*
swept all of tho rlvere ef Northern Mex-
ico le Bat Corrlgnn, a well-known con-
struction enntraeto? of San Antonio, Mr,
Corrlgnn had Just completed a larm
contract for »ho Mexican National Rail-
ways nnd In the flood of the San Juan
River loet all of hie construction ma-
chinery In a camp there. Before the flood
reached it* high stage his employ** auo
ceeded In gavlnfl seventy teams of mule*.
Mr. Corrlgen, not daunted. Is getting out
several outfits to be used In the remind-
ing of the newly destroyed portions of
the roadted.
"The terrible destruction of both life
and property in the recent floods In Mon-
terey can never be fully estimated, and 1
believe that there were many more lives
(.acrlflcod than estimated and there is
need of prompt succor," said Rev. J. L.
f'atton, rector of St. Mark's Chinch, who
returned yesterday from Monterey.
"When I left there It was still raining
vary hard, so that it was with difficulty
that I ho work of relief could be carried
on, and when one remembers that with-
in three uuys fifteen inches of water hud
already fallen, und with the city almost
surrounded by mountalnn, you can well
l:nn;lne what that means.
"The greatest damage to life and prop-
city wan done on the first night of the
rain, tho people mostly of the peon class
11 viutr In tho bottoms being taken wholly
uuar.'itros, as the greatest force of the
cloudburst raine about 9 o'clock In tho
morning, and the bridge across tho river
boing low end Insufficient to carry off
tho water, becoming choked up by ref-
use, It cut a channel on its sldu, cutting
off the low places from the main portion
of tho town. The water rushed down
With such force us to prevent all hope
of oncape to the higher lands about, car-
rying everything bofora It with such
fores as la mate rescue Impossible, so
that rinerna went down to death before
the eyes of hundreds who lined the ris-
ing ground.
AMERICANS IN THE LEAD,
Tliera was little effort made to meet
tho emergency end to take concerted ac-
tion for relief measures until Saturday
morning, an tho authorities did not seem
to realize the proportions of the catas-
trophe whleh had overtaken tho city.
Hut when once aroused measures were
set on foot, first by a number of the
American residents, who formed them-
pelves Into a committee nnd set to work,
often at the greatest risk, to bring lo
places of safety many who were still
floating along with the stream on the
tope or houses or on logs.
"Tho work of the brewery at Monterey
Is worth mentioning. Next to the Amer-
ican residents It was In the field carry-
ing nupplW* In Its wagon* and tnklng
load after load of the famished Inhab-
itants to Its storehouse*, where they re-
ceived every attention.
"The churches, too, did splendid work,
of course. These were the first places
sought out by the people as eoon as they
wero able to reach them, and In a short
time they became overcrowded. The
bishop next throw open his large palace
and he has now scarcely room In it to
sit down nnd is foeding at this time hun-
dreds of Ills flock.
TJeforo 1 left Monterey, Gon. Gercnimo
Trevlno. military commander, had taken
charge of the situation and through his
effort* tho work of relief goes on sys-
tematically, and ho can bo depended on,
I tlilnk, to bring order out of chao*.
STEEL WORKS SUFFERS.
"Without doubt the greatest sufferer,
from ft financial standpoint, is the steel
works, which lost over 6000 tons of enka
end has some of its finest machinery
buried under hundred# of tone ct sand,
10 that It will become entirely useless.
"Much more damage and probably loss
of lifo would have been done In tha
principal part of ihe city, but for the
bin racks of the rurales, which stands
between the river and the business sec-
tion, whose huge walls resisted every
effort of the rushing water, which had
cut a di'cp channel near, from breaking
through: lind it been built after the adobe
fashion Instead of Immense blocks of
stone finely knitted together with ce-
ment, 1 fear that the rich would have
been as great sufferers as their poorer
neighbors.
"The crying need for these stricken
people is food and clothes, and they are
looking to us for aid, and. ihank rind,
they are getting it generously. Their
wants are few. having little use for fino
clothes, and less for fancy articles of
food, living as they do for the most part
oil beans, meat and a much bread. A
shirt, panle, blanket and a pair of san-
dals of tho cheapest kind are their only
articles of apparel. 8cnd them plenty
of these things and they will be per-
fectly sallsfied. The house proposition
can be remedied at a nominal cost, as
they construct those out of mud antl
thatch them with a little straw, while
some of the poorest live in 111 tie huts
of cane, which enn be pitched together
for a few dollars.
"But food is the pressing need, for the
climate is such that people can live in
tho open. Givo a Mexican ins blunket
and he has walls and roof enough from
the elements."
CLOUDBURST AT THE CAPITAL.
Two Suburbs Are Inundated, But tho
Damage Is Not Heavy.
CITY OF MEXICO. Sept. 1—The sub-
urbs of Tacubaya and San Pedro de lo*
Plnos were partially Inundated tonight
at 7:30 o'clock. Some streets ran rivers
of water nearly a meter deep and sev-
eral storeH arid dwelling housea were
flooded. The water receded almost as
rapidly as it arose and tho damage will
not be great.
The cause of the flood is not known,
but It Is believed that a cloudburst in the
nearby hills caused the Rio Condesa to
overflow Its banks, the water rushing
from the higher level down through tho
suburbs to the city proper. Aside from
deposits of mud in stores and dwellings
there was no damage.
A special car load of medicine with
twelve trained nurses and Dr. Lopez and
Mrs. Lopez, head of the Mexican Red
Cross, left this city for Monterey to-
night.
A special dispatch says that the city
of Tula, State of Tamaulipas, has been
destroyed.
FIFTY MILES OF TRACK GONE.
Pan-American Lino Suffer* In the
Recent Flood.
Special Toiegram to The Express.
CITY OF MEXICO, Bept. :.-Dlspatches
received here today from the Iethmus of
Tehuantepec say that eighty-eight kilo-
meters, or more than fifty miles, of the
Pan-American Railway, negotiation* for
the purchase of which are being made by
American Ambassador Thompson, were
washed out yesterday by the heavy floods
In that part of the republic.
Reports say that nine bridges were des-
troyed. The loss at this time cannot he
estimated.
Of this eighty-eight kilometers at lea«t
ten are almoit 4 complete loss, the ties,
rolls and even roadbed being so tartly
damaged that they will have to be com-
pletely reconstructed.
Brownsville Is Raising Rollof.
Special Telegram to Th* Express.
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