Show MANY MEET BEAT H WHEN 00 an EKS WALL op OF WATER THIRTY FEET HIGH RUSHES DOWN VALLEY CARRYING ALL BEFORE IT warning of impending disaster had been given give n residents but few heeding it preferring to stay by their homes san diego reports received sunday from flood ravaged valleys of san deepa county showed allowed that a total ot thirty tour bodies had been recovered and raised estimates ot of the total death toll to gilve three thousand persons persona were homeless and there was much suffering aade agde despite spite heroic borolo relief work reported creaking breaking ot of the Cuy amaca dam releasing three billion gallons of water eighty miles northeast of here her and fear that other dams in territory already partly flooded might go out under the enormous pressure 0 of their mountain waters batera wa tera added further gloom to the flood situation united states marines and sailors e continued 0 to search for victims and to check widespread looting many bodies it Is bell believed eved were carried out t lo 10 0 8 sea e a wany many net met death and the property properly loss was appalling when on friday the lower dam of the san diego water system in the otay valley south gouth of here broke under the heavy pressure of the flood waters A wall ot of water thirty feet high was released sweeping down the valley the great flood water vater carried people livestock and valuable farm property to destruction st houses on twenty alve ranches were swept away the heavy rains had filled the lower otay dam tor for the first time in its history unable longer to withstand the terrific weight of the water the dam gave way releasing a flood of 0 water warnings ot of the impending danger of the break had bad been given to the people in the valley tout but few heeded them it was said choosing to stay and endeavor to protect their property the breaking of the dam released eleven billion gallons of water which rushed down through the thickly populated and narrow otay valley |