Show Death Toll Sixteen In Greatest Storm California Records Tragic Avalanches In Mountains Train Wreck Near Whittier and Traffic Accidents Among Results of and Wind Earthquake Felt In San Francisco CAN A FRANCISCO CISCO Feb 16 By It By Tho The Associated Pre Press The SAN S tall taIl end of ot the tho greatest storm that ever swept the th Pacific slope to as far west as ocean mId In the th history of ot the UnIted States weather cather bureau continued today to pound with dimInishing violence In southern and central California while the death toll stood at 16 It 21 Injured and much mu h property damage damace Tle Tie The tragedy was In the mountain mo camp of ot the Southern Edison company 75 east of ot Fresno l where 11 per per- persons per persons sons were were killed in a double doubt ava- ava avalanche avalanche ava avalanche lanche early yesterday esterday The first snow slide slid crushed bunk houses housos and anI sent men 10 to their death As rescuers dug due in the th accumulated snow sno for tor the bo bodies lles of ot their corn com com panl ns thc the second avalanche and took another life lito US C CAUSES U P F WRECK Flood waters In Puente creel creek near r which have hav assail Cl the atee steel I trestle across the for or three days so weaken weaken- weakened weakened weakened ed the ho structure that It collapsed i s aI the fast rut Los Ios Chicago Angeles flier ot of ot the tl til U tj Union lon fon Pacific railroad moved l across it last Iut night plungIng log Ing engine tender and two coaches Into the flood Two known dead ree lJ others othera bellev believed d trapped In persons ono one of ot the th coaches Six persons Vi were ere Injured Two were killed In Los Angeles traffic accidents A boy was drowned when he tell fell ell from a San SanDle Dle Diego o raIl road trestle into II a a rag rag rag- rae rae-ine log Ing torrent nt which two days before had bad been Po a dry creek bed b d Ono One Onehundred hundred bundred suburbanites In the th San valley near Los An- An Ang C An-C g les marooned In their homes by flood waters were rescued by police in n irow row boats commandeered from an ah an amusement park FOR FOn on BODIES In the stricken mountain camp rescue crews crows worked late Into the I Inight night In search of o bodies In the inoW but awaited alted the th arrival ot of C Coroner roner J 7 Herman Kennedy ot of otI Frt Fresno sno before continuing th the work I lay to to lay The Th belief bellet was expressed that s some som me of the tho bodies were burled so ao de deeply ply that they th y would not be b recovered r co e until un ll L the spring thaws Edison company officials said alt all of ot the Injured would recover Rude coffins wore were out ot of the thea the available a lumber at the camp for tor the bodies which had been taken out O of ot the sll slide le One Onehundred On hundred men of ot the camp were r t at work ork In II a a tunnel about a amile unIte under the Ule th surface when the first avalanche struck k They were brought out immediately The slides mer loft the camp hospital building standing but demolished every structure near it Seven even buildings were Continued on PaRO rago l age Two o U- U DEATH TOll 16 IN CALIFORNIA Continued from Page Pa One crushed to The loss was put at EARTHQUAKE RE TOO TOOTh The Th entire Pacific coast const felt some manifestation of the th storm stormA A slight earthquake shock was felt In San Francisco The Tho Th tern tem temblor bloc caused some somo excitement In Watsonville and was felt In other places in the tho tb bay regions but no damage was reported Hollywood firemen rescued a group of ot motorists who were left stranded when hen n a a bridge went out near University City Highway traffic throughout the Southland was demoralized by ind and high water and ind nd rail rall communication between Los celes An-celes An- An Angeles Angeles geles and San Diego Ditto was as out La- La Lavida La vida Li-vida vida Hot Springs a II health resort In Orange Orane coun county was washed away but there ther were no casual casual- casualties lies casual ties lea A hurricane at Taft Tatt ripped the roofs roof ort oft several se buildings FIL FILM I ACTORS MAROONED MIss Hiss Renee Rene Adoree motion pic- pic picture pie pic picture ture actress and an nty of her col- col were snowed In n at Siam Mam moth Hot Springs In the high Si Sierras erras Food was sInt sent to them b by airplane Devils Devil's Gate dam data In the San Fernando valley was a a poten poten- potential potential Hal point because of high highwater water vater Some Som towns thero were ere deluged under tour four to six feet ot of water ater The Th affected area extended from t f ie uc Aleutian Islands to Lower Cal Cal- CalIfornia California fornia and from the th coast to the Hawaiian Islands Many steamers radioed that they would be b de dc- dc de Summit observatory In the thc high Sierra reported 12 Inches of ano enow now Mount Wilson lIson reported seven inch inches of precipitation Tho The rain rain- rain Ill tall all since sine Saturday In the tho most mot cf the are area has ranged three to six lIll ix Inches The wrather weather forecast today called for tor still sUll more |