Show Sticks Thrust Upright Into Muck Mark Bodies of Victims of Flood Cat March aroh 14 CAP AP Viewing tho the havoc haven C caused by the tho St. St Is dam darn break from theair the theair theair air it looks o like a a. streak of ot no noman's nomans nomans noman's nomans noman's mans man's land Sticks SUcks thrust upright In the Uto mud mark the places where bodies wore were found burled buried in silt The rho sticks make them easily found round by rescue workers S Planes Plane Aid Search Airplanes which soared ared over tho the stricken area in great numbers aided aided aided aid aid- ed the searchers by dipping low Jow to indicate the positions of bodies Itis Itis It Itis is easy to spot human beings from froma a a. considerable height it ie their faces aces are upturned a Like Broken Toy The aerial view o of tho wrecked darn dam is like a picture of or a broken to of 01 toy Both right and left wings the structure were broken and swept away the central s section cUon remaining upright Nothing remained Jn In n the wreckage that remotely resembled a a. building Railroad tracks were vere twisted like spaghetti S SC C I e e External Force Blamed C. 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E Los Angeles water and power official who superintended superintend c ed t the tte e building of 01 tho the big dam ex expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the belief bellel that only some external force such as an earthquake earthquake earth earth- quake or a dynamite blast could have caused the tire break It was waa pointed out that a n. slight ITt earthquake was registered in the tile neighborhood l last ast Saturday night ight Girl Saves Self SelfA A girl irl who saved herself herBel from the flood b by grasping a plank and stickIng stick stick- sticking ing to It until it deposited her in the quagmire at tho the waters water's edge buried herself bersel in t the tle e mud after ater liar her clothing had been torn from met her body When located by rescuers she r refused to emerge until a a. man gave her ber his shirt for drapery S C S Auto Swept Away Fate Pate played cruelly with one rancher who foresaw the danger and thought ho was out of ot Its reach He lIe loaded his three children into a a. small automobile and then stopped for tor a a. moment to warn a. a n neighbor When he ho turned back to his car it had been swept away human cargo I. I and all None Badly Injured A curious feature of 01 the tho disaster was tare tro fact that less than fifty persons were treated for injuries at the Newhall Red Cross hospital None of or these was seriously J Injured Theres little littie that doctors and nurses can do its it's 3 a a- ajob job for the undertakers nurses said They esca escaped escaped or or d-or or they died S S S Carried First News First FUrst word to reach Ute tile outer world of or the collapse of ot the dam IW vae i carried to the sheriffs sheriff's sub- sub lPt tion at Newhall by R. R E. E Star Star- bard Edison company's patrol helper Shortly before 1 o'clock yesterday esterday morning rushed into the sheriffs sheriff's substation and told Deputies Deputies pu- pu ties Stor Story and Doran that the tho tho bi big dam darn had Irad broken and the flood lood waters waters wa wa- were racing through the entire country around them All facilities of ot the Ule local telephone company were enlisted to evacuate the thousands of or residents in tho the path of the torrent Deserted Cars F Found Two trucks deserted descried on tile the highway high hlll- wa way were were muto evidence cf ct It another of or many trag tragedies enacted in the disaster Their drivers caught in the midst of tIre tiro torrent were thought to bavo been beha swept away In iii the tho swirling waters Tho great cat dam soun sounded ed its own peculiar warning to some of these below it ft There were wore two big flashes of 01 light as electric power lines Jines snapped Some Seine canyon residents residents resi rest dents saw escaped Son Saves Father FatherS S S C. C II Hunck 80 was swept out of or his bed and into the torrent After Alter a wild ride through the tho escaping escaping escapIng ing waters he be was about to collapse when a familiar voice spoke to him out of the darkness and a a. a strong hand dr drew draw Y v Mm hIm to safety It was as Ills his son Wade Through Mud T Tire ability of 01 a newspaper man nina manto manto to ewer his assignment at the scene scone depended somewhat somo upon Ills his faculty Wr wa gh seas C mud An Associated ted Pre Press 3 st man stripped himself from II CIs waist several times In order tOlf streams and save his anticipated cool night at I Appeal Heeded J I s 's appeal f or aid l i ii Y I going going- unheeded 3 Trucks were wera arriving every h with food and clothing of ot uyer Tile Tho hall halt a being used by the thc Red ned Cross temporary headquarters was crot cio ed to capacity capa ity and no one I plied for food or clothing went a av empty 1 S S SC m F r. r Valley Was Beautiful I The valley through h which flood roared was one ono of or the Int beautiful sections of or Cl ClI I It was with Q orai at atI trees and lemon trees in bloom bloomI bloomaN I I the tue orchards a arc ao o but shrubs cove co coI I with silt 5 |