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Show If PT n FLOOD xjg of Benuiifnl California SCfi, inundated By Rasing jKTorrenfs of Wafer. VAy.AXDSTREI'T CAR TRAFFIC IS SUSPENDED Wfns Now Over, nut Damage flfansincss Houses Will Cc ill KxeecdinglV Heavy. ft jkt0Nt, I'nl- March 20. Water Suinj: through ihc streets of this ."5 ke 'niI1 racc- Tn "0nlC pli,C0H t 'Sir feel in loPUl' w,,!,e in otllors i ftps from one to throe feet, tli i Ring the moan nvcrape. All is t suspended, as most of the U houses aro flooded and the ,'in many pari of the city arc 'to leave their liomes. No por-5f por-5f tho town escaped. Main, iho jnal business street of tho city, i hiRh point, and even here the Verapcs nearly a foot in depth, he cellars and many of tho first . Dt the business houses were sub- ii and the loss in the city alone run into hundreds of thousands of TliD flood started nt about " yesterday afternoon and the St point was reachod at midniclii,, Twhen it has receded slightly and Relieved the worst is ever, .The. lis' still overcast with occasional 3 and should another storm break js time conditions will be more Wiethe best residential portion of feity is under water, few of tho MM We been immersed as high as 'llffirti floor, as in most cases llioy .several feet above tho street level. J til Traffic at a Standstill. atl and street car Ira flic is at still, and this morning- eondi-e eondi-e such that nobody can venture rhen the city will nc unwntered. elephonc system is badly crip- j i all tho long distance are out uission, thereto cutting off all ora outlying districts, tho conn-many conn-many "miles on nil sides of j i being inundated. of the gas mains are full of nd the gas supply is suspended. Southern Pacific railroad tracks throngli the city from north were caught broadside and the and rails linvo been twisted hapo bv tho force of the raging It will require, many days of put the track In condition for I Even after the water subsides, t iila Fo railroad fared no bet- i no railroad communication will with the outside world for at week, feared that in the southwestern the city, which is low, and the ' e section of many laboring men, . ay hnvc been drowned. Tho j atrol tool: many out last night i ! court house 'building was a i ' refuge for dozens. lc of a man who fell into a t night, and another who was ' V a train while guarding a ' bridge, there are no authenti- iports of fatalities. rater has been receding all 1 though slowly. It is feared, ( ', that additional heavv rains in ntuins will sond another freshet. ioty' '"0r0 watcr fternoon papers arc not trying out their regular editions, as ants are crippled and the men get to work. |
