Flooding Forces 30,000 Into Shelters

At least 30,000 people sought refuge in emergency shelters from Mexico’s worst flooding in half a century as the state of Chiapas began cleaning up after a week of deadly, torrential rain. Mario Fuentes Alcala, head of the government’s family support agency, said flood victims were at 100 shelters in communities hardest hit by storms and flooding, blamed for more than 100 deaths on the Pacific coast of Chiapas. President Ernesto Zedillo, who toured the region Saturday, said the disaster was the worst catastrophe to hit Mexico since a series of earthquakes in 1985 killed thousands of people in Mexico City.