Show 20 23 O MEET DEATH I IN Ilk LA II I. I V Scores Missing As Waters Sweep Streets of Df City i Highways Turned Into Mill Races by br Worst Wont Storm in 57 Years Debris Searched for Bodies Br United t. t LOS ANGELES Jan 1 Twenty three persons were re report reported reported port ported d dead in metropolitan southern California today as s a result of a terrific rainstorm N Fed by storms unprecedented in 57 years thousands 0 of tons of water and silt sUt roared all night down t the e foothills closing highways and turning thoroughfares into mill rac races s Authorities believed full effects effect of the flood h had n been even iven fr fra fractionally ally learned Before even a tentative es estimate estimate estimate es- es of lost lives lives' could be made rescue workers were confronted confronted con con- confronted fronted with the necessity of lurching searchIng search lurch Ing big in and around each of the many automobiles marooned in the deep silt of a thousand gutted streets street and d roads road At least east three persons person were known own to have been swept from their machines machine It could not even be conjectured how many of ot the muddy wrecks wreck standing fender deep in mud had bad been abai abon voluntarily and how many ha had been emptied by threshing shing waters r rB B Bodies es of f Six Found Found The bodies of six me perso persons were weS found in the La Crescenta district north of Glendale They apparent had bad been swept from some of ol the scores of automobiles piled along 1 10 lb miles of its iu length The bodie bodi vert taken to Thirty persons were ing lag in the La Crescenta Crescent district and nel it was w-cs feared many of them wert dead Thirty five in injured were it- it ported in the d. d district In Izi at least two wo cases motorists feeling feel feet ing lug their way through inches of waver Water atei drove bl blindly into abysses created toy by washouts ts and we were drowned In San Gabriel an n automobile cOo cob taming six persons crept through th the rain and darkness to the brink of ft a torrent in the bed of ot a small mall arroyo arroy The driver did not see until too late law that the small bridge had been swept away His brakes failed to hold and anci the machine plunged over its its' top in 1 inthe the hollow ollow Five Are Drowned Five of the six persons person were drowned the sixth being rescued from the surik sunken n wreckage The dead were identified as Mr and Mrs J J. J E. E Moore Martha Marth-a Moore and Sherman and Toots Hubbard all allot of San GabrieL Carter of Monterey Mon Mom Monterey Mr Mrs Mr Dorothy Hartman terey Park was drowned south of Alhambra Al Al- h hambra when flood waters swept he her from her car ear The car driven by Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph Carter her husband stalled la Ia deep water A tow car pulled them into deeper water seeking safer ground and Mrs Mr Carter apparently became fright frightened ned opened a door and was flung headlong into the flood Bya By Bya a curious whim of ot the elements her body was found two hours Incurs later p pin pinioned pim beneath her own automobile Loss of life was believed heaviest i ithe inthe in inthe the Montrose Glendale are area which was wa-s stripped of much of its iu flood pro protection la lat late in to November when a a. forest forest forest for for- est fire tire gutted the watershed d area area Inthe inthe in inthe the hills behind the valley Discover Bodies Patrolling the eroded Glendale Glendal streets officers early today found the tnt bodies of f a woman and t two o yount youn girl and a man with little reason t to hope their search just just begun begun would not bring discoveries The body of a nude girl apparently stripped of her night clothing by th the swirling water was found in the middle mid mio die dle of ot a street The body of a year old girl In blue blut pajamas who apparently had hod rushed in terror from her bed bed was found in 3 another street Police Pollee reported finding the the body body of ot otan an unidentified woman clad for New Years Year's eve gaiety lying l-ing In a flooded gutter and the body of a man possibly pos sibly her escort several blocks away Glendale police could not confirm the report that three patrolmen had been lost when trapped under a wall wallo of water In Verdugo Verdugo Verdugo Ver Ver- dugo wash jf iThe i- i ordinarily The Los Angeles river Continued on Paw Two 23 MEET DEATH l IN L. L LA A. A FLOOD Highways Become Mill Races J In Worst Storm in 57 Years Continued from P. P Put Pu One Ont string a-string of shallow puddles In iu a rocky bed was a roaring yellow stream before before be- be fore nightfall lost last night and by morning morning morn morn- ing big had swept away away a at least let a dozen of Its Us t. t bridges Richard reported that his automobile was ove overtaken taken on a I Glendale street by a four-foot four wall of water that tumbled his cor over and andover andover andover over several times and flung him and andRay Ray Locffler Loeffler clear They were carI carried car car- I ned ried a block m said before they could fight free of the water waler and onto ento high ground At least 20 major bridges and possibly pos pos- sibly 50 SO smaller spans over washes in the Los Angeles area rea were destroyed de de- de- de by by- high water according to hasty survey taken b by county oW- oW More rein rain was predicted d for or the next ext 24 hours by the United S States tes weather bureau though not of the proportions proportIons' of yesterday and last wt night Dams Dami Declared Sound Residents of the metropolitan lowlands low low- lands were spared panic by the report of E. E C. C Eaton county flood control engineer that the four big darns dams and dozen smaller ones In the hills were sound Driving all night on on inspection tion on tours Eaton himself was overtaken overtaken overtaken over over- taken at dawn by a foot five-foot wall will of ol water at the thet foot of 01 an outlying canon canyon canyon can can- yon on end and escaped with his life We only by abandoning his car and swimming In the tho Montrose district where the peak floods passed more than inJured injured injured in in- were qU quartered in the constables constable's con con- stables stable's office awaiting the arrival of ot ambulances physicians and nurses A 4 service station was completely washed away in the hilly billy part of Montrose where a dozen residences Were reported pulled from their foundations Headed down the conyon canyon from hilltop hilltop hill hill- top flood control station Montrose a ton ten truck was WM hurtled end over overend overend overend end to the bottom of at the grade smashing smashIng smash smash- ing into and p past t two stranded automobiles auto auto- mobiles in lt its plunge No Trains No trains were moving eastward from Los An Angeles eles The Southern PacIfic Pacific Pa Pa- Seats Santa Fe Pc and Union Pacific as U aswell well as the Pacific Electric Interurban service reported flood waters had Undermined undermined undermined un Un- tracks destroyed bridges and brought along their lines east cost of ot the city The Southern Pacific said its coastwise coastwise coast coast- wise system was pretty well tied up by slides aUdes at Chatsworth flood floodWaters floodwaters floodwaters waters in Burbank and Glendale Some trains were moving but with difficulty |