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Show Angry; Pacific Sweeps Into Coast Towns ;'j ),t ..trmt"'"'mm'mm'mr'm'm'' " ' """""" ""' ' mmmm ... .- --w;L,ZiJ HIGH WAVES BATTER BEACH HOMES AT LONG BEACH Photo shows wreckage left after big breaker rolled in during ttorm OCEAN ENGULFS COASTSTREETS LOS ANGELES. Jsn. 1 (jffl Sandbag Sand-bag barricades lined the shors of ths Pacific from San Diego to Santa Barbara todoy, as beach residents resi-dents fesred additional losses from a combination of nigh tides snd tremendous swells stirred up by a storm at sea. Estimatea of damage in various 'communities ran as high as $100,000. with sevsral houees reported washed away, dosens of others flooded and damaged, interurban street car track washed out, pisrs battered and debris piled high on the ssnd-Sra ssnd-Sra Sweep In In Hermoea Beach, salt water covered beachfront blocks and fish swsm in a strset a block away from the ocean. Tidea approaching sevsn feet, but slightly lower than those of the past two dsys, were due today. to-day. Ten blocks of the strand was under water. Long Beach reported extensive damage to beach houses, with a possible pos-sible ioea of 130.0U0. Pacific Electric Elec-tric railway tracks were washed out between Huntington and Sunset Sun-set beaches, and streets of Newport Beach were under water In places. Houses Washed Away In San Diego county, several houses In ths Mission, and Ocean Beach districts wsrs washed away and many others had been evacuated. evacuat-ed. Houses south of Santa Barbara likewise were damaged. Near Santa Monica, a wind flattened the heavy swells and damage was confined to debris strewn along tha beach. Fifteen passengers aboard tha liner Lurllne, which put in at Las Angsles harbor en route from San Francisco to Honolulu, were injured when 60-foot waves battered the ship, tilting it at one time at a 28-degree 28-degree angle. |