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Show FRUIT SUFFERS IN VALLEY OF SANTA CLARA SAN JOSE, Cal., March 20. More damage has been done by floods in the creek in the last twenty-four hours than I previously in the floods in the last fifteen years. Erosion of the banks will cost many acres of fine fruit and farming land, while the washing out of bridges, notably the Southern Pacific one on the Almailen branch, will stop all traffic from San Jose to Los Gatos by way of Campbell for weeks. The damage in the vicinity of the latter town will reach many thousand dollars. Fruit farmers generally are of the opinion that there will be light crops this lyear, if some do not prove utter failures. The rains are believed to have washed out much of the pollen, which will 'prevent the blooms maturing into fruit. At San Martin, Harold Bole, the five-year-old son of a well-known rancher, fell knto the swollen Ilagas creek and ' was drowned. At' Santa Clara several families were driven from their homes by the overflow of the Guadaloupe creek. ,, |