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Show FLOODS EMD WEST The List of Drowned Inoreaain? and the Amount of Losses Growing Larger Every Day. A EIVER CHANGES ITS COUESE. Vast Area of Water Ten Miles Wide end Fifteen Miles Long Below Los Angelas. Sax Diego, Cala., Fob. 88. The storm of Sunday and Monday was tho most severe ever experienced iu tli. section. The damage to railroads leading lead-ing from this city was quite larg". and it will te a week before travel can bo resumed as before, tho llooil. The town of Tia Juana on the Mexican line, wi s totally washed away, except tho I'll: s hotel, which is so badly damaged as to be of no further use. The Otay river broke its banks and swelled Tia Juana river until it Hooded the entire country. Two persons aro reported drowned at-T; Juana. No o'.licr fatalities are reported. At Kamona 12 inches of water wa-ter is reported as falling during the storm. On the Cuyamaea road mm oral washouts occurred and the San Diego river bridge was washed away. At Knsenada the rain did considerable damage. Tho soap works on the Ku senada river were totally washed away, but no loss of life is reported. No damage Was done in San Diego, although considerable rain fell and the wind attained a velocity of forty miles per hour. |