Show I I I STURM STORM DAMAGE DAMACE NEAR 17 Irrigation Ditches Save Many Persons ROCKWOOD Ca Cal Aug AP Damage estimated at from from I to resulted from the from the I tornado whiCh late Sunday swept this Imperial valley town A ch che up of property losses and casual fes revealed that only two of the towns town's approximately twenty buildings gs were resting upon their original sites Five residents are nursing minor injuries Irrigation ditches saved hundreds hundres from serious Injury and possible death By taking to these when they saw two shaped funnel-shaped clouds approaching those in th the path of the wind kept their heads below the line of flying timbers The fact tact that the two tornadoes met at Rockwood is Relieved to ha have hav VP saved saed Brawley four four- miles from here and other Imperial valley towns from serious damage Tle The twisters tore a path one hall mils mile wide and fo four miles four miles long before they collided |