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Show DKVASTATIOX AND DKATII. A Illvtr Chang, It, Coun, From th, Et Side of a Town lo th, Wt. Los A.viiELES, Cal., Feb. 20. Reports continue to come in from tho surrounding surround-ing country and give further details of devastation caused by tho recent Hoods. As these reports aro doubtless exaggerated exagger-ated it is impossible to give an estimate of the losses, but the amount will be considerable. It is now thought that only four lives have been lost, the Wells family at Duarte and Severano Lou re no near Wilmington. Loureue's and Wells' bodies were recovered, but the other two aro missing. Near San Gabriel the river formerly passed down east of the town. Now it is flowing west of the town, and is a stream 1200 feet wide. The county bridge at San Gabriel has been carried away, and a house was swept down near Downeys. From the Ten Mile house to the ocean there is a vast body of water covering an area of ten miles wide and fifteen miles long. Charles Watts and family who wero supposed to havo boen drowned near Downey's, turned up all right. The Santa Fo road to San JDicgo is in bad condition and may not be opened for a week. The Yuma board of trado has appealed ap-pealed to this city for aid. At tho latest it will be several days before communication can be resumed with the east, either by the Santa Fe or Southern Pacific. |