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Show V' j ttlllllltflillllllMillllMliltttlMtllltMM 5 S 2 3 Prebably rain or mow Wedneadayi not much thing in temperature. 3 Stiver imiiiiiitumiiiimtf Search of The Tribune Wants: may reveal someone asking for the thing . you have to offer. WlATHtSt Local Pries. Settlement- 5 oij Copper Zinc - E 67 .,.... lu 7i Uid S Ii.481 . S uiiuiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii uimn SALT LAKE CITY, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1928. VOL. 116, NO. 152. 24 PAGES FIVE CENTS 275 Bodies Recovered From California Flood Ruins Scenes of California's Flood Region SECRET HOPOFF Lives Claimed By Floods in U.S. Since 1889 l! IIIIIHIFft March 13 NEW tj.mm of life in outstanding flood disasters: America 1889 Johnston, Pa, 2000 died thjj dam bunt, 1900 GalYeeton, Texas, 6000, following tidal wave and hurricane. 1913 Ohio river, 732. 1913 Brazos river, . Texas, Perilous Air Voyage Across Atlantic Believed Flier's Plan. - (At). flnt "at ef Bordeaux," reporting the passage of "a large plane," low overhead and heading west." Interference prevented complete copying of the message, Dawson said. The message stated that on the wing ef the plane the Roman numeral was distinguished, while on the cabin were the first five the letter, letters of .the name of Captain Hincbliffe's plane, the "Adventure.'' March 1 (L'S). The French liner Rousslllon, which sailed from here for New Ifork early this morning. reported picking' up a wireless from another ship saying that a large plane had been sighted flying west. This was undoubtedly the plane pi loted by Captain Hinchliffe, . which hopped off today for New York, with Elsie Mackay, daughter of the Brit- fab sblp owner, a passenger Weather here tonight J mhi with light northwest winds, and 1 Ideal for N. HALIFAX, 8, ' " - , .. , - j. ' - where (itts believed) . Li. " , ' ;'':. .jrb- - f V ' - . , ' - BREAK QCCU&ED 'i '.. . " j Ger- July, Saxony, flood many, '. 2000, ' storm. and SINCLAIR BONDS ; hAMiMhPi . j?! CONSTRUCTION jUNio.i92Si T &K..K, N ' " ' " J . KITING COVERED FRANCIS (AST RtSRVaR- fti? - - rven" MK7.tj "V" March - (AP). ney. Partner Thought to Be ' Gordon Sinclair. H'Ml thnr la some uncert&lhtv at tached to the identity of Captain lilnchcllffe's partner1 because of the unceremonious nature of the start,, he is thought 'to be Gordon Sinclair, a skilled pilot and friend ( Hinchcllffe, with whom he nas oeen recently aortated. Some speculation was aroused by the recent report that the Hon. Elsie and noted sportswoman Mackay. daughter of Lord lnchcape, proposed to make the American flight with Pautain Hinchcllffe. and this was en livened because . efforts to. learn of her whereabouts today wera rebuffed at the family residence. ' who announced ""VI Winrhrliff. week that he Intended to makem long distance flight to India before trying the dangerous transatlantic venture, left even his wife without definite information of bla purpose. Mrs.' Hinchcllffe told the Associated Press that she knew her husband had planned an American flight for some time, but he had not Informed her of the date of the start She received notification in the course of the day from that her husband's Captain Hinchcllffe was off on the Atlantic night Later Mrs. Hinchcllffe learned from the meteorological office that her hua-x" (CasUanad aa Pise Twe.) , - . business-associat- e 5W. " k,d7. " - v!TLl ' J? .1" "?h.,n .he . ''.'-vV'-- the prod uce assoc i a 1 1 o n this year is sign Mexicans Killed In Two Combats - Stage People Marry With Two Witnesses CHICAOO. March 11 (AP. Georr Moran "the on. who aaks tbe ques tions" In tbe stage testa. of Moran snd Mack, and Mm Oaire White, a at dancer, were marr1 yeauiday Crews Point, lud. Both are apnear- ine in tbe Earl Carroll Vanities here Kdwar-- iloffe and Alice Elrluu. fel low 3oo- -. were h nnly at'mdanta he ceremony, announcenient of h came aa a purpriae to other mmhe-- e of the raat Mora.i said he XI and las White had been engaged four mnritha. Th team of Moran and Mark are Ulack rweratly a poll, of aa "The acres ku' of certified potato planting Crows." ing up 1000 XEWH March 13 (AP). 8eacher for th dead, on wards of 275 of whose bodies have been recovered, tonight splashed through tho slime of San Francisquito canyon, the peaceful valley that was turned. mio a graveyard today when tst. rrancig dam brok and engulfed from uxnard, bantieoy, Moor rark, banta Paula, Saugug and a dozen or so smaller communities which fringed th flood that devastated Ban Francisquito tamo report of more bodies found to add to th death toll. Vi ben the t dam, barely two year old, gave way in the dark ness of the early morning nnder the pressure of 3S,000 acre-fee- t of water behind it, it did eo without warning and loosed on the ranches and campw t the canyon below it a high avalanche of liquid death." Two Great Flashe a Power Line Oo Only Note of Warning of Disaster, , Two great flashes ai the flood mapped the power line were the only note of warning that catastrophe was hurtling down the canyon. Homes were crumped nnder th great wave, families were pitched into' th maelstrom and torn apart. "Mr; A; "M."Rnmsey,BtmitrMt oangt: declared tonight that for the past ten day rancheri living in th shadow of the St. Franci dam had "talked of nothing else,'' but reported leak in th structure and th possibility of th disaster that wrecked their' homes and wiped out their ' . families today. Thi morning it gave way, the eastand west wines collapsing, and down the beautiful canyon, dotted with citrus groves, rushed a barrage of ;i raging water. In its wake the torrent left property damage variously estimated , ; igbt at from 110,000,000 to $30,000,000. tred T. Beatty, member bl the board of supervisors of Log Angele county, inspecting the (It of th collapsed St. Franci dam today, picked p a piece of concrete and declared that h had crumbled it between hi . Iso-foo- T0 Amendments Pro ' V" y, By HARRY J. BROWN. Staff Correspondent. D. C, March 11 WASHINGTON, By a vote of nine to three, the sen- te irrigation committee this morning rejected all amendments'that had been proposed by Senator Asburst of Ari- son to the Johnson Boulder dam bill, nd would aa ruthlessly have thrown nto the discard the Plttman amend ments as well but for the fact that JLOSANGcLES -- NSANTA'tlON Heroism Varies Horror During Perilous Night CA Chicago Tribaoa Preat gerrtce. water selves floundering in the water. .All three were swept bobbing along with the- current. By terrific struggling they managed to keep afloat and fiwho is an expert Dornaleche, nally swimmer, reached the side of his sister and ber husband. He brought safely to shore,' but the husband was carried away, Bert Lewis, employed at an gamge In the foothill camps at Saugua. was one of the first to do rescue work. "Another fellow and I were warned that something was hap pening un the way when we began to see terrific flashes. Lewis said. "The flashes were caused by short circuits In the high power eleotMc line as water reached the poles and broke' tbe wltes. "The flashes kept going on and off for an hour and a half Then somen one came in. from the California Edison plant, and. jvejsnew what had happened. He Was the only surylvor that I saw.' pantc-strlcke- Both Young Fallows Killed While Sleeping. "I went bck out there with him The first thing we saw was two. bodies. Both of them were young fellows and they were stark naked They had been killed In their sleep with never a chance. One body was fifteen feet tip in the forks of a Cottonwood tree. Their bodies were beaten up as though they had been .lapped and tortured by the force of the water. The bodies were beaten ' . bull red. "J went to look at it In the sunlight and you never, saw anything, like- IL The whole canyon valley was swept clean Houses, trees telephone poles, haystacks, barns, bridges, everything was gone "The water must have been going with sn irresistible violence when it got down to Harry Carey's ranch and Indlnn Post Everything vanished and we don't know what happened to any, body at all there. We met one fellow and he had been throug-if and came out somehow. He was alive and us anythat was all. He couldn't tail thing. Just seemed shocked. The bod-dl-all of people and cattle were cleaned ont and war dldn". see any down there. They muat have been rolled .ml into the atream and rushed down the Santa Clara river, like so many chips. There will be a lot of bodies taken out of that river." Miguel Ruts, a small farmei Hving l by one down the canyon, was of the pranks of the tidal wall which snuffed out the live, of scores of a Pi Three.) e . Walsh Approves Friend's Action in Coast State March 13 (AP) Senator Thomaa J. Walsh ofMor.lana gave formal ap proval to the uae of his name as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination In the state presidential primaries May 1. the The approval was given In form of a letter to John P.- Holland of this city. Holland, for years a personal friend of Senator Walsh, was one of the committee of five that selected the Walsh candidates for. delegates to the Democratic convention at Houston and Is one of the candidates. Holland said in .The letter part: of be assured my very great "Please appreciation of your kindness in writing me by your letters of February Vi ana March 3. 1 snouta reel very proud Indeed If the state of California would, through Its delegates at Houston, indicate their belief In my worthiness to fill the great office of presi anal! be dent of the I'nited Statea. glad to hear from you from time to time of tho progress of the work of Please convey , to your jooninilttee. ycur ssaociates my thanks for tbe er- . fcrta they are making." William G. McAdoo of Loa Angeles treads the list., George Creel, chairman of the government's wartime information committee, and . Kathleen N orris, the author, also are on the list. OAKLAND, -- United Calif.. States . 1 Sharp, Earth Shocks Noted on Instruments March lJ AP). A aharp earthquake was registered by the Georgetown university seismoWASHINGTON. graph today, the tremblors began at 1:61 p. m. and continued for about two and one half hours. Director Tondorf reported. The disturbance was approximately 7400 miles from Washing - . ton. wa-b- v- - n, next-wee- (Coliima Twe.) Lady Carbery Dies When Plane Falls . t" fingers.' Beatty saidt "Yes, it came from th dam, bnt judgment must not be passed until competent board of engineer ha conducted a searching investigation - ". and ha reported to Governor Young. Supporting Mrs. Rumtey'a itatement of rumored leaks in th great wall, that unti last night held back th water for the summer supply of th city of Los Angeles, were reports obtained by investigating oficer from'motbrist who hid driven through th canyon late Monday. Auto Driver Declare Ha flaw Big Stream Gashing From Behind On Wing of Dam. One auto driver, according to the investigator, stated that while drlv-- ;. ing up the canyon road with hi wife nd family he aw an unnsual fluan- lty of muddy water cursing through the ordinarily dry atream nea. The atitowt, laid the officer, drov np the dam expecting to ee thet water coming over the apillway, but found non flowing. Driving elosetf-haid he noticed that the water behind th buttress wa within tare? feet of the top aad that the spillway gates apparently were dosed, ak thouph there was a good atream running down th canyon. Farther alone the road, tbe autoist reported, he found a gang of work men drilling hole apparently in preparation for dynamite blasta to blow- off the shoulder of a hill not more than 200 feet rrom the dam. "And it was then," th officers reported the autoist a saying, remarked to my wife that it looked like a pretty heavy charge to et f We were in the hill until nearly 7 o'cloek in th so elose to the dam. evening, and I am certain the blast was not set off until that hour, for w undoubtedly would have heard it." Out of the disaster rose a hero, who paid with his life for his courHe was E. Locke, watchman at the Southern California Edison age. Power "switching station." Power Station Watchman Lose Lif While Warning Sleeping Dweller of the Flood. Survivors from the camp told of Locke running from cabin to cabin, from tetnt to tent, warning the worker to flee. Score of these were bla ' to gave themselves, but Loeke died. Red Cross stations were opened at Newhall and other point to car for refugees, while hundred of police and deputy sheriff Were rushed from Lo Angele to aid in the search for bodie and in polieing the stricken region. Far beneath an airplane, in which an Associated Press staff correv spondent. viewed the ruin, the broken dam looked like a child' toy. . Looking down through the wisps of eloudg it wa easy to imagine thai a caprice of the gods had tumbled the huge thing of concrete and steel intoa mass of disintegrated slabs and boulder and laid wast a wath of fertile soil a score of mile in length. Already thousands of men and automobile, trucks and ambulance were scurrying about the edges of the huge mangled thing of concrete, lifc ant who scamper erazily about wheq one kicks over their carefully built . . "I ' NAIROBI, Kenya, Africa. March 11 IAP) Ijirly Carbery, wife of Baron Carbery, Irish peer, was killed yesterday in ari airplane crash. A pupil named Cowie, with whom she waa flying was also killed. The plane lost speed while flying and went Into a spin. Lord Carbery saw the accident from bill. . the airdrome. . . Lady Carbery had been tiklng up Ruin, Waste and Death 'Only Thing Viaibl inenas lor short flights during the to Observer Who Fly Oyer Stricken Area. afternoon. She was giving Mr. Cowie a practice flight with control "Black gleaming beetle ,of automobile, their arrogance and wlf-inwhen the crash occurred. portance apparent, were dashing about on tbe few roads that remained "S open. U. S. Envoy in Tokyo Where a few hours ago were million of gallons of water wa now a muddy bottomed empty canyon. Where once was a dam, proud ia it Coming Home for Rest resisting strength, now gawked pillar of concrete. A region where once were scores of carefully built home, representing TOKTO. March 11 fAP). Charles Maeveagh, American ambassador, to the work and savings of little families for years, was now a terrain of day said he would return to the Unit at ed States with his wife in tbe latter faintly gleaming saffron slush, slime and mud. . As the fliers looked part ot June, They will stsr at their the gaping hole where the dam stood they eould see the trail of death and summer home at Santa Barbara, Cel., blasted hope the month of tb canyon gaped like that of a colossal dragon and Mr. MacVeagh said he would that had just spat devastation Jipon a valley of contented people. i some ) make probably on campaign The first report from the scene of disaster earlv this morning said that in bethe Pacific apeechea half of the Republican cand'date. an earthquake had wrecked the dam, but bo temblor were reported else He will return to Japan earlv tn Later an inection of the wrecked structure indicated that seep m Octohep for tbe wedding Prince where. Chlchlbu to Setsu Matsudalra., daugh- age through the hill to which the west wing of the dam wa agchored ter of Tsuneo Matsudaira. Japanese had allowed it to bulge- and crash; then the east wing followed, ant ambaaaador to the I'mted Statea, and only the central portion remained while the great eataract poured for the coronation of Emperor Hiro-hitthrough th breach to blot out life ia San Francisquito canyon. : . r? " du-t- l co-s-- t Htgh Waters Maroon Cities And Tra ins in Wisconsin New-hal- the Nvaasrentrtr-w'i- H, and the committee, decided, aa a matter of courtesy, to allow Plttman to be present .when hia handiwork goes into the basket. Senator Johnson, supported by eight other senators who were present or who had given him their proxies, rode roughshod over the oppoaitlon, and made evident that he through talking compromise and hat he Intends to have his bill re ported Just about the way he In troduced it, and he demonstrated that he has the votes to make good on bis threat. Lined up with Senator Johnson were Senators Phlpps, Colorado: i, Shortridge, California: Junes Washington: Gooding, Idaho; Shep-parTexas; Howell, Nebraska, and Some of these were Oregon. proxies. Arrayed against Johnson were Senators Ashurst, Arizona, and Oddie Nevada. Senator Plttman being voted by proxy by his colleague, inasmuch as the other side was vot ing absentees. The only surprise vote waa that of Senator Phlpps, who, urr-t-ll today, haa been aligned with the forces. Johnson Evidently Intends to Push Bill. Senator Johnson evidently now In tends to push his bill not only to n early report, but to early consideration in the senate, for he and aome of his supporters this afternoon asked the senate steering Committee to give the Moulder bill a privileged status, in the hope of bringing It up In the or two. senate within the Also there ia to be a revival of in house. the Chairman Smith activity of th3 irrigation commute, wilt file the majority report of his committee (Caatianed aa Page Pan.) ' and-Dil- -- feet high. It seemed but a few feet away from us. we grabbed at shrub, and twigs snd pulled and hauled our way up th. canyon wal'. The water rose ao fast It licked our feet, but we. were nut of reach to far to be swept away when It reached Its height." Children Tern Away From Arms ef Parents. By an incomprehensible freak. Ihe water wall snatched up the cabin ef (Calama Twe.) Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Holroaw like a berry box. and. sweeping It along for some distance, lodred the finally wreckage against a tree, The Hol- apsws,: their Infant gnd daughter clung together in each other's arms. s Mrs. As the eabtn hit the tree. Holapaw managed to seise a limb snd hold on ler hushsnd was wrenched Ions and both children were torn from their arms and swept down Into the blackness. Holspaw managed to MADISON, Wis., March 11 (AP). art to another tree and ssved himself. Both parents were rescued and Marooned cities, cut off from rail and l. automobile communication, and in a taken to emergency hoapltal at Neither child's body has been few cases, electric power, dotted westfound. Another freak of the flood toeaed a ern Wisconsin today. on tbe Kickapoo river, At fllmay teanto with two nccupants to a a power dam broke thla mo ruing unfety on a h'iiatda and rrore solid dwelling atandlng but two der the pressure of abnormal waters feet from the leanto Into otlivkn and a heavy Ice Jam, Lis. trie service with twe other pereona. Ben Domelecbe was In a ranch waa euapended. Three Milwaukee- road house aome- distance below the dam trains, one a paenger tratn. were in the canyon with his slater sod his marooned In the village. Hlghmaye are slater's huaiiand mhn the fury broke, Impaeeable In ail directions. ' More Tkay awoke, be said, to find "Uiara- - thaa. two feet of water covered ail seventy-fiv- ' : As-hur- st, Arizona, Rejected V . Loyal Samoans Threaten Rebels e I trict Enough food, clothing and bedding and medical auppliea are on hand, to rare for tho refugee of tho St. Franci dam' disaster, Red Crosg head quarter here announced. JSanFmncisqu,to ' JlX Woman Mayor Losing Fight dis- nor-rica- it posed by Senator LOS ANGELES, March 1J. From the scattered and stunned survivors of the ' San Franciscquito' disaster, srnne In Newhall, some in Saugua. aome In Santa. Paula, and some In Lot Angeles, where they were rushed" for surgical treatment, accounts of the disaster were obtained. , A blown-o- ut fuse saved the lives of four families living at substation No of the Southern California Edison company, it was reported at the res-du- e camp In. Saugua. Those who es caped from this powerhouse and fled to the high ground with the water thundering behind them were Mr. and (Cautioned aa Para Fear.) Mrs. F. A. Theas and two children: , ( Column Two. ) E. B. McKinney and family. Roy Star, bard and L. N. Hall, superintendent of the powerhouse. The men were working at the powerhouse when they heard the thunder of water up the canyon. Theas loaded his family in his automobile and started out. of th canyon, but the APIA. British Samoa. Marxh 13 water overturned his car. He rescued his .wife and children and escaped lAo.-sam- oam loyal to the New Zealand administration of British Samoa with them to higb grounu. Hall also started out In a car, but had to abanare threatening to take effective action to curb other native, who continue to don aisiurp toe peace and demand that ef Campers' namoa oe governed only by Samoans. i ne situation is. regarded it serious Tossed About fey Water. A mile and a half down the canyon by foreign observers, who saaert that rebellious. Samoans are getting out of below the dam slept Cbester Johncon inM ; son, Leu a Hepkln and Jack Pelper, ; Tatnseae. a leader of the Mau campens, . la . a mountainside cabin. wno were relet aed after areat for "We were awakened out of a ,'sound nnmpering trade at Etiropeai stores, sleep by feeling our shack suddenly have continued demonstration. Thl. tossing and tumbling beneath; us." with the asserted failure of th fore. Johnson said. "Then one wall was or two New Zealand warship to. da- torn away as the waters rushed by. ta In prisoners and effertlvelv protect Hardly realising what was happening, administration police who made' ar- we lumped Into the flood and tried rests, aroused otber natives against to fight our way through the water nuo uiaiuroers. thirty feet to th canyon wall "The first burst of the flood had passed, but a short distance up the canyon, roaring and tearing along with a terrible roar, cam. a wall of Thras. ) N the Salina O, - John Parker, 60. Carl J. Mathewe. Jr., 2. Earl Pike. Roland Erretchuo, 14 mont' i: Mr. Roaarl Ruil, 46. Eddie Oarcia. Donald Hopp, I. ' Hunick, man. Hunlck, woman. Co. child. Holscloth, child abeut I. Holzdoth, child about 10. All two-ho- MEXICO' CITT. Msrch H MPI Dispatches from Guadalajara say that (Colanta thirty one insurgents and twelve federal soldiers were killed in two combats In the state of Jalisco, where fighting has been going on for several months. Ihe dispatches say that too Insur gent, attacked the town of San Juan de Loe Lagos Saturday, but were re- SEATTLE. March 11 AP. Frank after a tight lasting several Edwards took a decided lad over puisea hour, during which twentv-fivof reK. were killed. The- federal in Landei the attackers Bertha Mayor early turns of Seattle's .nayoralty election troops ' defending the town loM twelve ber tonight Unofficial ooun on for- killed. Federal cavalry took up tbe ty of th clty'a 19a precincts gave Ed- - pursuit of the sttackers. wsrd llht votes and Mrs. Landes 4379. ; r .u.uuui. iu The third occunant of th stand was Hays himself. Under a rain of questions he maintained that be had done nothing Improper and argued with committee members that recent disclosure, did not contradict the testimony he had given the committee under oath, it was these disclosures that led Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratlo floor leader of the senate, to declare on the senate ?Ub Uotehinelf to ?LHay."., d cnarS for getting some of Sinclair bond, out of . The Kenublfcan oartv treasurv. aa i plained In th. testimony, was to de-- ' live narrela of them tn aurrpian luenon ana others, tn. recinient in each case to make a contribution of several points .In . ,.. uininprn lminriu lhukiii .iki i Atlan-Hl- uo airplane speeding toward the through a snowstorm and this, al though the markings were not detect ed, was confidently presumed to carry the adventurers on their perilous jour Down San Franciaquito Valley, Killing; Hundred; $30,000,000 Damage Reported. FBAN.-CTSC- STEAM Senate Teapot Dome In vestigator Get Meager .X hd,i T.t.JU LUuu J"..1.!2!, '? ' Wall of Water Sweep ot seventy-five-foo- L C8t Seventy-Five-Fo- 3AX March 13 (AP).- -J. Arthur Jefferg, in ebanr. of tbe Pacify roast area of the American Red Cross, left here tonight y train for the ilood devastated area at Log Angeleg to direct a aurvey of tho disaster and earo for the refugees. ; .was Paul Dettmer, a Red Croat worker wio Accompanying Jefferg recently apent ten monthi in Mississippi flood relief work. Another Be Cross worker, J. W. Richardson, who waa in Arizona, haa been ordered lt Lot Angeleg. Richardson directed reicua work after the Florida . v . - Of Los Angeles Dam Disastrous Threap A cabinet officer and a past and a present chairman of the Republican national committee were asked today by th senate Teapot Dome committee to explain their silence of more tore" with Captain Walter Hinchliffe In hi. mvaterious attempt to cross me Atlantic from east to west LONDON, March 11 (AP). A new east attempt to fly the Atlantic fromOranto west, which was launched at well airdrom. today in unwonted sa creey, was still lotmcured by mystery were tonight. The daring aviators over the believed to be somewhere ocean waters winging westward Captain Walter Hinchcllffe, veteran British pilot, and a companion bopped off at an early hour without a word 1 nmon n n in stlnson monoplane, would teavlng a message that they try the hasardous flight to Arrlca Ust ef Identified dead - tn tho St. aa reported Francis dam disaster from Improvised morgnei in the stricken area ihortly "' before mid night. ' Including these Identified deid. total of 271 bodies bad bean recov ered. In addition tho number of persons miming vat variously eatl matad between 300 and 600. Identified dead at Newhall: Night Collapse ALL,-Calif.- WASHINGTON", lnrhcape, herself an aviatni, and i widely known for her adventutous LOS ANOELES, March 13 (AP) Following la a partial, Incomplete (CaatianW ea Page Three.) (Calnma than four years regarding the effort of Will Hays, party chief In 1920. to dispose of, securities paid into the Republican treasury by Harry F. Sin clalr." . ', LONDON'. March 14 (1:40 A. m.) I wo or the witnesses. Secretary f t o CIW'K una niuiiiiii. n Bn p lion or the treaatirv dnawmn. Al was definitely established that the . Flood Victims' Identified List Growing Fast Solomon t. Byrd. Mrs. stay Rising. ' Mrs. Nell Hinsan. Fay Mathis, . , - Information ;in Probe, '''"': " ' 100. 1927 aea" report on the transatlantic flight of Captain Walter Hlnchllff., Brit- lab aviator, was pick.d up tonight by George. W. Dawson, operating station ber. H announced intercep tion of a message, apparency relayed by the French - steamer Rousslllion, from another steamer, "four days out . ... , ot st. francis dam Fuablo, Colo, 600, Ar. kansas river. 1927 Mississippi . valley, boat ISO, Including indirect deaths from accidents. 1927 Novomber, Now England, about 100, including 54 in Wlnooaki valley, Vermont. Other countries:- , 1887 Hoang-HChina, 'estimated 900,000. river, ' 1911 China, Yangta river, estimated 100,000.' 1926 September, ' Spain, Anxious Wife Left Without Word; Partner Is ' Aviatrix. 11 March What mar prove to b .the ieseivoir view woking 'west w ' ..... ''wfst a8uttmfnt I . -- - 600. 1921 Even NEW TOHK, covered. Upper photo shows St. Diagram showing, strkicen section, with arrows designating course of Francis reservoir and dam. Insert is and cross dam under constrtiction in June, flood waters, marking spot where more than 100 todies were re- - j 1925, now completely wrecked. YORK, PIE MYSTERY it highways out of Twin" Bluffs. Trains are unable to reach the village, farms were under water and there waa aome damage to farm buildings. Richland Center waa cut off from all ante telephone and telegraph a white residents of expected an overflow of the Wisconsin and Kk'kaprivers. tra'fU-iBoth highway and rsilwa blocked in and out.of Gats Mills and valley, in that vicinity were badly flooded with w.ter from tb and the KirkapooWater varying in depth from a few Inches tn a foot waa oer the lowlands around Lone Kock. Wau-aek- Wia-oona- in o. Byrd't Companions Begin Experiments on Ice SACRAMENTO. March 13 (AP). Adjutant General R E.' MitteNtaedt today ordered the 180th infantry, California aational guard at Lo Angeles, to itaod by for orders. T1CONDERCKIA. N. T., March IS NEWHALL. Calif.. March 13 (AP). Fsck trains war being or- (AP). The He lane monoplane to be uaed by Commander Richard K. Byrd late today to enter the flfic4ra-rel- l gad park out the bodice. Th ginized In hla Antarctic trip arrived here tomud waters the oato washed and roads, silt making other type of trans of a on testa and started aeries day the Ice of Lake Champlaln. The plane, portation impossitde. landed on piloted by Kiovd the ice near this villas, at 4 20 P m 8AX FRANCISCO, March 13 (AP). Th Poulhcrn Pacifle Kilra.d, were Bcrnt Bennett Accotnpttnyicg Bah-hen- . Byrd s flvirg companion on company's line between Ban Francisco and Los Angeie, which, was waV.-- l Weath-erhy. his transatlantic flight; B. J. waten from, fc't. a motor expert, and Tbonuts out thi morning in souther California byCol-i-n-flood a OftVi - '"" (Continued oa Mulrey. 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