Show Hunt for Dead Continues In 11 California Flood Area Crews Probe Debris as Mass Rites Are Held for Victims of Coast Del Deluge ge geLOS LOS ANGELES March 7 UP Mass UP-Mass Mass funerals were begun to today today today to- to day for the many scores who died in the southern California flood The mourners passed along streets half buried in mud and debris I where groups of grim and weary men still searched for the missing five ive days after the disaster f I I There were persons listed as dead ead in the square mile area and nd it was estimated that or more had died o o 0 keep out sight-seers sight and looters looters loot- loot ers rs during the rehabilitation work national guardsmen were wert on parol patrol patrol pa- pa rol at Anaheim sheriffs sheriff's men blocked locked the roads in San Bernardino Bernardino Bernar- Bernar dino ino county mounted posses guarded guard- guard ed d the banks of Lytle creek and Santa anta Ana river in several counties Nine more men were added to tole the le death toll last night when a haggard party of two women and four men emerged from Tujunga canyon and reported that nine of their companions had been drowned when a torrent swept down upon a construction camp 50 miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of Los Angeles For five days the surviving six had been without food Th They y had lived on water and coffee A rumor of their plight had preceded them here and three boys climbed a a. precipitous trail to Continued on en Page Two Column Five I I HUNT FOR FLOOD DEAD CONTINUES Continued from Page pae One assist them The boys carried on one e of the survivors who is a paralytic There was a funeral for 18 today at Anaheim Most of them were drowned in the Atwood and La Jolla area near by when the Santa Ana river left its banks and took a new course down the main street of At- At w wood It is a Mexican community Bears 4 Four children were taken in one hearse from the Anaheim church to the he Hillside cemetery Anaheim a few miles down the I river iver from Atwood was a desolate place today Thick sticky mud filled the streets Broken timbers and driftwood lay in heaps in every direction There were rank odors Fine silt left by the receding waters dried quickly and was whipped up as' as dust by every breeze The scene was similar at LaJolla La LaJolla LaJolla Jolla a Mexican settlement five miles east For 40 miles along the Santa Ana An a river banks sheriffs sheriff's men searched for bodies They ripped apart smashed flood-smashed buildings dug into int o crags where drifting bodies might t have been caught It was a foregone foregone fore fore- gone one conclusion that some had bee been n carried out to sea and would never neve r be found Camp 1 Was Vas as Trap Upstream at Riverside workmen dug into the mud that obliterated obliterate d a tourist camp There was mu mud d piled to within six inches of et th the de e tops of cars The river in changing g its course swept directly through h gh the camp Only two bodies ha had d I been found but Sheriff Carl Rayburn Rayburn Rayburn Ray- Ray burn said probably 15 or 20 more people people peo pee pie had drowned there They were e visitors mostly from eastern states and the sheriff feared that those who would be found could not b be c identified for weeks until inquiries had been made of them at their home towns in the east Stern warnings were Issued against looting Some sections still were partially isolated and people in the mountainous mountainous moun moun- areas were reported to be without food food- A coast guard amphibian amphibian amphibian am am- plane was brought inland to be flown to the San Bernardino mountains and landed on lakes carrying supplies Search for the body of Mrs Vida Eccles Savage 55 former Salt Lake City resident and native of Ogden who was swept to her death in the flood waters of southern California California Califore Califor Califor- nia continued Monday after reports that her body had been found proved incorrect This word was received by Mrs Lila Eccles Brimhall of Salt Lake City a sister of the missing woman woman wo wo- man in a telephone conversation with another sister Mrs Vivian I Richards of Pasadena Cal i Mrs Savage was caught in the torrent last Wednesday when she I returned to a cabin at Camp Baldy for blankets and medicine after removing re removing re- re moving her invalid husband Ray Thomas Savage to safety Mr Savage 59 former Salt Lake City business man was taken from froma a refugee camp in the San Bernardine Bernardino Bernardino Bernar Bernar- dino dine mountains Sunday to the home of Mrs Richards He was suffering from cold and exposure OGDEN March 7 Rescue PI-Rescue Rescue parties yesterday removed Ray Thomas Savage 59 from Camp Baldy in the hills near Pomona Cal where he and others had been maroon marooned d by flood waters which Friday swept his wife Mrs Veda Eccles Savage former to her death The information was conveyed to Ogden relatives ves today by telephone from Pasadena Cal by Mrs sirs Vivian Richards a sister of the dead wo wo- I man |