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Show QDS CAUSE 1SS OF LIFE jNDPBOPERTY . Persons Drowned in thern California and 4,500,000 Damage Done. VAY TRAFFIC IN BAD CONDITION i and Roadbeds Are fcH Out and Trains fed; More Than 100 Souses Destroyed. lKGELES, Feb. 21. With a loss My more than $'1,500,000 and a even human lives since Wcdnes-itteni Wcdnes-itteni California began to re-Hight re-Hight from the effects of the erm in its history. Swept by 8. rain for tho past three days, l&e territory between Tchachapi p and tho Mexican lino was (tut with the sun shining most r.'ths situation improved con-ttud, con-ttud, while nearly all of the faceted remained isolated to-rogres to-rogres was made toward re-es-ijfwiro and rail communication, dine to an estimate male by A. ML assistant city engineer, Los 'kjb damaged to tho extent of :$1,500,000. One hundred and rcwnd dollars represented the to city streets alone. The bal-presented bal-presented losses sustained by iand by citizens who lost thoir Stljich were swept away by the jrtth all of their housohold ef- jtjntho vicinity of Pomona, this pjhere young groves stiff crod se-fcfange se-fcfange growers reported com-wf' com-wf' little damage. Punches and Kins in the lowlands were input in-put no reliable data could be ria to the losses sustained by m, Acute. led .situation about Los Angeles l5le early last night and con-Wo con-Wo greatly aggravated at tho iqby a gale which reached vc-. Iffrom thirty-eight to ftftj' .hour at various points inland kltho Pacific ocean shore. Bed by the rush of waters, Rtoiver3 carrying power lines Fr.es of telegraph and tele-papauies tele-papauies went down under tho Mho winds, and with railroads IjtbBn trolley hues already out won, the situation became at complete prostration. For pr hours there was no street mt sad, during the entire daj: W only brief periods of corn-fc.Wlth corn-fc.Wlth the east. mw towns, with but few ox-emaiped ox-emaiped entirely isolated. Pfanuinication by wire, railroad Ppf Bridges. j report that tho collapse of over tho Lob Angoles river tj aud tho washing out of j oUcwhore, mado it uncer-P uncer-P traific could bo resumed. But mm. ti men wero sent out to Ettntinnous shifts in offorts ydamagoB as quickly as pos' tt 100 homos wero destroyed WoleB alone by tho torrents ft through tho Loa Angeles fjyyKr "oyo Seco. As floods fWterwaya aubsided tonight JPSK.SB.ttud other property, in-yyunK in-yyunK Btowpans to v. mWr m were left stranded on .SfciK steol bridgo over the l1jflB ??.d brok early -today, tho jIBh. 10 t1'1 sata Fo rail-&51avy,car3 rail-&51avy,car3 loaded with scrap 'TJSUbr 2UtM 'to divert furthor VWmmw Btrui waters which ad tracki "kirting tho Bi(2lMKLT,i0J?wooP oi tho flood 4jKl - timo9J howovor, that '.Mttr11?6" ore turned asido ffiw of tho "5vay of tbo SgBf?r comes Torrent 1 ' fft,er.ous ,hoUB8 that top-1iTIlinR top-1iTIlinR WtB tho river fcwj bed called river by cour- V'mVlVay 'tho Loa Angolos pig-ffiB,Ve pig-ffiB,Ve cotes tumbled in-P in-P 'MJhefore daylight and thou-1 fJmWB T8 yero drowned. tvR the, ?i on inches of rain 'iAi H :icn dAaya in various :IBt 1l . J Ji0B Angeles. 'flMf Bhnrfbutb oC fos Angeles, $SHtma -of food which U! lf transportation not restored within a GHSS' fvf r praonn, also -was "WTboPPlj.of bread waa VmmWti Vvil B fftnuno basis. Jit85SfJ1 PPb'ing Clare-jSKf. Clare-jSKf. 'lumaged, and the 5toB time ,nkinK wa1:or as tho 8amo troubl0 JB-'Bt Ye .avenuo 'strict ff "Blvely by a colo' FLOODS CAUSE HEAVY LOSS 1 CALIFORNIA (Continued from Pago One.) ny of western millionaires, had to got its supply of drinking wator by tho pailful from city water wagons sent out after a big wator main broke. Long Beach on its landward sides was surrounded by flood waters, while its ocean front was lashed by a wind-whipped wind-whipped surf. Tho floods inundated a big salt works and 20,000 tons of salt wero washed back into the sea. At San Pedro several of tho inner channels of the harbor wero filled by silt washed down by tho floods. In some channels a depth of only six to ten feet was found at high tide, where normally they should show a depth of twenty to thirty feot. Shipping, Ship-ping, however, was not interfered with, as tho silt did not affect any of tho main channels. Tn San Bcruardino an overflow of Lytic creek damaged the water system, cutting off a great portion of the city's supply by putting pumping stations out of commission. East Coltou, a suburb, was inundated. A .$1,000,000 railroad, citrus fruit pre-cooling plant was flooded. Three hundred visitors from Corona to tne National Orange show at San Bernardino were marooned when the railroads wore tied up last night, and started to walk home, a distance of twenty-five miles, today. Tn the party were most of Corona's principal business busi-ness men, and they said they had to got homo or Corona would do no business today. Corona later reported they had not reached home. Riverside and Eodlands wore flooded, and wore out of communication tonight. The Los Angoles weather bureau predicted pre-dicted more rain tonight and tomorrow, with prospects of clear weather tomorrow tomor-row night. |