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Show RESPITE SEEII FROM TERRIFIC COASTJTORM Many Casualties, but No More Deaths Reported in Western States IB AmmUUS renal SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25 Temporary Tem-porary cassation of the general storm that drove serosa Pacific coast slate, during the last M hours waa predicted pre-dicted by the United Slates weather bureau today. The storm, which whipped southward south-ward from the Alaskan gulf to San la Barbara, Cal., followed In the wake of another disturbance 14 hours previously, pre-viously, that took three lives. Two men were frozen to death in a Nevada blizzard and a third was trapped In a anow avalanche in the southern California Cal-ifornia mountains. Yesterday's general storm carried destruction In Its wake, harried shipping ship-ping and may have caused at least one death. A 14 loot sailboat was washed ashore in San Francisco bay and authoritiea were seeking to esUb-llsh esUb-llsh IU ownership. Snow drifted high In the mounUins 1 ot Oregon, Washington, Nevada and : California yesterday and laat night 1 Search still continued near Grants Pass, Ore., for Clarence A. Cline, San : Franclaco salesman, missing since December De-cember 14. His knapsack waa found in Big Bear basin four days ago TBIE SMASHES HOUSE At St Helena. Or., a tree blown down by the wind demolished the house of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Williams. Wil-liams. The Williamaea and their two sons escaped injury. A blizzard blocked several highwaya about Klamath Kla-math Falls, virtually isolating the " In Nevada a score or more of legia-latora legia-latora were prevented from reaching the capital, Carson City, for a session ses-sion of the legislature. Snow-blocked highwaya held many of them at home or In scattered communities on the highway between Reno and Carson City. Near Grass Valley, Cal.. a party of prospectors, numbering 25 men and women, awaited Red Cross relief. They were Isolated In heavy snow ten miles from there. Reports said they had no food and were housed in ' tents. I Shipping waa delayed by the storm which anapped a tow line and aent a barge with a crew of five floundering helplessly five milee off the Golden Gate. A coast guard cutter sent a new line aboard houra later and towed the barge Into San Francisco Southern California, which had been visited by a heavy storm, won a brief respite yesterday, but more rain, with snow in the highlands, was predicted. |