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Show WHITE MEN AHE FOP LOOTING lira oieco Two of the Miscreants Are Turned Over to Authorities Authori-ties and Others Bayo-netted Bayo-netted Out of Valley. SAN rIT-;i;0. Jan. SI. United Slates niaiitus were reported late today to have iinuM four while men looting in the ' M.iv v;t iioy, t he district which lias suf- red the ren tesi loss of life and the heaviest property damage, as a result Ot" Smii ldr-no county's Mood. Two of the mm. referred to in the advices as the "Holmes brothers," were turned over to i ho civil authorities. The other two. it whs said, were run out of the valley at the i.oini of bayonets. Toduv's arrests were the first to be marie since Rear Admiral Fullam, commanding com-manding the J'acitie reserve fleet, received reports esterday that armed Mexicans were looting in the valley and ordered sa ilors and marines engaged in relief work there to "shoot looters on the epot." At a meeting of city officials and business busi-ness men here today it was decided to try to raise a relief fund of JlfHi'OO. Tonight To-night subscriptions to the fund totaled 530. POO. City Buying Water. Telegraph and highway communication into San Diejco was reopened somewhat today, the city began buying water from the Cuyamaca reservoir, and relief work was expedited by the establishment of a naval radio station at Otay City, at the mouth of the Otay river. The estimated number of dead remained at sixty-five for the Otay and San Luis Rey valleys, with about thirty-five bodies recovered, of which eight have been identified. The Morena and Sweetwater dams still held, but the outlet through which the Morena reservoir fed into the San Diego water pupply ia choked. The dairy ranch at Santee. owned by Walter Pupee of Chicago, Chi-cago, Is believed to be undamaged. Relief rrties of sailors and marines who have gone into the valleys took three days' provisions. Absolute Desolation. Edmonds Block, an artist, visited Tiajuana, Nestor. Otay City and Chula Vista, a little group of towns in the stricken district, and returned today. "The scene presented was one of absolute abso-lute desolation," asid Mr. Block. "In one spot I saw a piano, tilted at an angle and about half buried In mud and sand. Xear by was a clump of uprooted lemon and ora nge trees still bearing blossoms and fruit. , A cow belonging to no on knows whom, and doubtless miles away from its former home, stood grazing a short way off. In the middle of the inundated highway to Tiajuana. Lower California, stood half of a house, and several sev-eral hundred yards farther down the road was the other half, with a broken section of a bridge leaning against it. Wagon beds, dead livestock, sections of houses and other objects dotted the expanse of water and sand. Houses which remained standing appeared about ready to col-Lapse. col-Lapse. "A freak of the flood at Nestor moved a house up-stream nearly the length of a city block. The home occupied jointly by the families of John McCann and George Weatherbee was swept out, while its owners, who hid worked in a nome-mnde ouat Uroh'ssiy for four days, aiding others, w ere helple to save the. building. build-ing. "Both men are married and have families. fam-ilies. They declined to apply for aid until they learned t he relict' committee working in the district had oluntariiy made provision for them. "One desolated family v.s that of a farmer whose sight had been gradually ("ailing for several years, and who?c wife and daughters have tilled their place as blindness was descending on the head of the. family. They lost everything house, barn, a team of horses, sever;) I ecus, fruit trees a nd all personal effects and the site of their little iarm is buried in rocks and sand strewn over it." |
