Show 60 Toll of Christmas Mishaps Many Freeze SMUDGE SMOKE OBSCURES VIEW TRAIN Boy Drowns While Playing Playing Playing Play Play- ing on Ice at Eugene Ore and Brother Succumbs Succumbs Succumbs Suc Suc- in Rescue Effort SAN FRANCISCO Dec 26 Two Two boys were drowned eral several persons were injured and citrus crop damage damage damage dam dam- age estimated at was re reported reported reported re- re ported from southern California to today today today to- to day as the result of ot cold weather which forced the thermometer be below below below be- be low zero at points in California Oregon Washington and Nevada Smudge pots were wert pouring black blackI S smoke through the California citrus I belt near Los Angeles this morning I to prevent additional damage to the tho j I II I crop cro which was frost bitten yesterday yesterday yester yester- I da day resulting in the estimated de deI deI destruction de- de I of ot 10 per cent of ot the I I crop TWO BOYS DROWN At Eugene Ore Clark Swanson 10 10 was drowned whim play playing ins ins- inson on onIce onice Ice fee that partly covered a creek He attempted to reach for tor his cap when It fell teIl In the water and toppled into the stream as a a. result His IUs brother broth broth- er er Stasey 12 12 was drowned while attempting a rescue Smudge smoke In the San Bernardino Ber Ber- nardino Cal orchard district ob obscured obscured ob- ob soured the view of the operator of ofa ofa ofa a Pacific Electric train which was waa derailed at a curve One car was overturned and a n passenger Ralph Goldsmith was pinned beneath One leg was so badly crushed that it was amputated Several other persons suffered Buffered minor injuries In I second second- accident an unidentified man walk I i In In- the path of ot an oncoming ng electric train ala I COLD STOPS ENGINE At Astoria Ore great quantities I of ot ice ico were reported drafting down dowa the Columbia river Into the la Pacific itic I a condition which resulted In the tying tIng up of ot all aU wooden vessels scheduled to make the inland river trip In Nevada some points reported a temperature lle of 35 below zero Two men James Saunders Mill MUl City I mining operator and Clifford Morse 17 were thought ht lost Wednesday night but they arrived at a construction construction con con- I str camp at daybreak while searching parties hunted for tor them I all day yesterday esterday The engine in their automobile was halted by the cold and the men spent the night 1 around a fire iro they built bunt |