Show CALIFORNIA IS COUNTING lOSS TO CROPS AS STORMS Highways Blocked and Irrigation Canals Are Flooded LOS LOS ANGELES COLD Trees Uprooted Homes Damaged and Fences Blown Down SALT sTr LAKE Dc Doc Dr By io ny TIle The As- As Associated d Press Earth Press Press- Earth ss-Earth tremors of minor int Intensity were re IC d on the lie K Dt at the University of Utah at 1 A it a m ro today toor Professor U n G C Mitchell h reported Tho disturbance ft central about 00 miles 8 owa away but Prof l Mitchell was ns unable to determine the direction ii t milT may have haTe been In CalIfornIa lie be said Mid I LOS IOS ANGELES Dec By 9 9 By ByThe ByThe The Associated Press Crop Press Crop dam dam- dama dam dam-aj a J was mounting hourly In Impe Impe- Imperial Impe- Impe Imperial rial nat valley tonight as the storm which yesterday descended on the area about Los Angeles moved southeastward harassing motor traffic washing out railroad racks and filling Irrigation Irritation ditches to flood stages Continuing rain already passed the record point wrought serious damage damace to barley pasture fields the lettuce crop and ond un unpicked picked cotton Livestock was suffering from expo expo- exposure exposure sure to the driving driving- rain and winds The main Irrigation canal supply supply- supplyIng supplyIng supplying ing about third one of the water of the tho valle valley Talley burst from Its banks at Dixie land and spread over the San El DIcco-El Centro highway Northwest of Brawley the Salton Sea highway was closed by order of the slat state highway commission the rain having undermined th the mont pave pave- pavement mont ment or covered It with heavy sand HIGHWAYS V BLOCKED Highways In every other direction direction tion tion were Arizona au authorities stopped s all traffic by au au- au east of Yuma Stages and other machines were unable to get by washed out sections of highway on the th San Diego route A A wash wash- washout washout wash out out on the th Southern Pacific corn com com pany's line lin northwest of Niland do- do delayed de delayed outbound and ond main line lin west west- westbound westbound westbound bound trains last night until z o'clock this morning Trains now are aro running an hour or more late because of soft sott track No more earth shocks shock Were felt felther here today following the th series of jolts Wednesday The Th last lut tremor was as felt at p m Wednesday night and was of equal intensity with the th preceding shocks No damage was reported The Th rain fell tell generally over the valley Niland reported more than three Inches El EI Centro a 0 little less than Jhan two Inches and Brawley ws ANGELES COLD Strong cold winds wind whipped Los Angeles during last and to- to today today to today day following the freakish storms yesterday esterday Harbor craft cratt were threshed about In a sixty mile gale but outside of II a a small steamer be- be be Ipg stranded on a mud bank no serious damage WIlS wa done Heavy winds were general over the coastal area arell At Altadena na near Pasadena large lare trees tree were uproot uproot- uprooted uprooted ed ad awnings torn from houses fences blown down and debris scattered over lawns and streets Mountain peaks peak and the higher foothill levels level were ere blanketed with snow chilling the winds which swept over the Metropolitan area |