In this Wall Street Journal article about recent flooding in Beijing, the reporter uses numbers to detail death and injury tolls, monetary amounts of damage, amount of people relocated, and rain totals over time.
The numbers are limited to one or two references per paragraph and are broken up throughout the story to each discuss a different facet of the flooding and its aftermath.
One instance in which the reporter could have been more clear about the numbers is in a later paragraph where they discuss a 120 million yuan money allocation to help bring relief to the affected areas. Most people reading this (myself included) would have no idea what the U.S. dollar equivalent of 120 million yuan is, so a simple conversion could have been calculated to make it easier to read.
The reporter frequently cites Xinhua, a state-run media outlet, as the source of their information. Another source used is the blog of a municipal government, which announced the current death toll. After each number or figure used, the reporter accurately attributes that information to either source.