Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-17 | Page 3 | Southern California Gale Kills Two, Injures Scores

Stately Palm Topples Under Lash of Wind I ! - - .. j k- ' "-: A.' s A J l : l , j GOING. . .BUT NOT QUITE. . .GONE WITH THE WIND Slim telephone wire catches uprooted palm tree la Log Angeles - Southern California Gale Kills Two, Injures Scores LOS ANGELES, Feb. IT (AP) Raging winds which lashed southern California for two days diminished in intensity .today, leaving leav-ing two dead, scores injured and unestimated property damage, much of it SDDsrentlv centering in rich citrus districts. Robert Walker, 10, was killed as he attempted to cross a highway by an automobils wboss driver said his vision was obscured by dust. Alfonso Cuirres, 26, a W P A worker, work-er, died when atruok by a heavy plank which the wind had carried TO feet An estlmatsd 2900 trees were blown down in various cities, including in-cluding a giant eucalyptus, which fell across ths backstrstch at Santa San-ta Anita park and delayed a race for 20 minutes. Windows In ths track's elubhouss and In many stores, Including one at Hollywood's busiest cornsr, were shattered. Trees, in msny instances, pulled power and, communication wires down, disrupting service. A 250-foot radio tower of station KFVD in Culver City crashed, with a loss estlmatsd at $5000 by officials offi-cials of Standard Broadcasting company. com-pany. Police radio towers in Glsndals and Santa Monica also ware toppled, ss were derricks is several oil fields. Small boats hugged the harbors, sad passenger liners operating to Santa Catallna island remained in their berths. In ths citrus district where Inspectors In-spectors said several days would be required to compute the damage, firs early today destroyed an abandoned aban-doned packing house with a loss of 17500.