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Show TERRIFIC STORM HURJH 0IEG0 iTRONG WIND FOLLOWING RAIN STRIKES NATIONAL CITY CAUSING DAMAGE Entire City Is Left In Darkness; Lo Angeles Suffers Worst April Weather In 20 Years; Damage Dam-age Is Great SanDiego, Calif. A heavy wind, coming on the heels of a hard rain, itruck National City, near San Diego late Monday night and -wrecked several sever-al houses. Two women and a man, Injured in the collapse of one home, were taken to the hospital. All will recover, the doctors said: The storm left the city in darkness. Sharp lightning accompanied the windstorm. Los Angeles, Calif. Los Angeles and the surrounding district began checking up on the profit and losses of the heaviest storm in more than twenty years. Although the rainfall was looked upon as having been highly high-ly beneficial, it was not without its damage. Highways were washed out and inundated, tying up automobile traffic in many sections of Southern California. Trains from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara were delayed for several hours by earth slides. Having inadequate storm drains, portions of the city were flooded. Onebridge, a temporary structure ever the Big Tujunga, in San Ferando valley, was destroyed by the flood, and other bridges in the valley were endangered. en-dangered. The storm Btarted Sunday night anj at a lata hour Monday the rainfall had reached 3.60 inches. Precipitation in the mountains was especially heavy being ten inches at Opid's Camp and 11.17 in the Santa Anita Canyon. Two cabins were washed wash-ed away by high waters at Opid's Camp and the toll roads leading up to Mt. Wilson was washed out. |
