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Show ROADS RESTORING I TRAINJERVICE I Hundreds of Marooned Pas sengers Hoping for Release From Stalled Trains. DAMAGE IS $4,500,000 Shortage of Food in Los An-geles An-geles Milk Pulled Across River on Cable. . Los Angeles. Cal., Feb. 23. Contln-ucd Contln-ucd fair weather aided work today in restoring service on railroads "and wires put out of commission by tho :H storm of last week. Communication with the east by rail is expected to be restored late today. 'H Passengers of tho eastbound Call- ;fl fornla Limited and Phoenix Express, marooned Friday night In the moun- :M tains, at Summit, 25 miles cast oC 'M San Bernardino, were reached today 'H with provisions. , rH The Chicago White Sox American 'H league team was expected to roach Los Angeles late today, 24 hours be- ll hind time. i r'H Lloyd Osbournc, son of Mrs. Rob- ert Louis Stevenson, who died Wed- iil nesday at Santa Barbara, was aboard ' ifll one of the storm-stalled trains today iil at Barstow, Cal. Plans for his moth- er's funeral have been held up pend- IH ing his arrival from the east at San- cl ta Barbara, but Osbourne may not ffll reach there for two days as the Southern Pacific coast line is out of commission, which will require him ! ;H to take a boat or go around by way ! H of San Francisco. Los Angeles, Feb. 23. Railroad communication between Los Angeles ! l and San Francisco and the cast will ' be restored to a limited extent today, ' it Is expected, and by tonight hun- (H dreds of hungry passengers who have il made their homes III stalled trains ' for five days will be on dry and firm I H ground again. j H The three dr.yj storm of last week, ! considered the worst in Southern Cal- Ijl ifornia's history, has stopped prac- .H tically all trains, crippled telephone il and telegraph service and halted the movement of tLe mails. With clear weather Saturday and Sunday and il prospects for more during the next i 'H few days, this part of the state is -making rapkT progress toWnrd " ef f ac- ing traces of the damage. ! Railroad tracks, bridges, roads, or- il chards and liouse3 have been swept '1 away in places. The damage is esti- ll mated at $4,500 000. Rocks and silt fH cover many orchards. ll Three hundred passengers were marooned ahoaivl two Santa Fo over- 1 land trains in tho Cajon pass, San Bernardino mountains, Automobiles il and wagons sent from San Bardino and from the Mojave desert side af- forded relief from the food shortage, '1 East of Solton, the Chicago White !jH Sox, waiting for a chance to get to ; their winter training quarters at Paso il Robles, arc mailed. Their special ' traiu is expected to arrive today. '1 As both Salt Lake and Santa Fc jH overland trains and Southern Pacific, iljH San Francisco traffic as well have been routed over the Santa Fe via Barstow, a number of trains are stall- ed on the Mojave desert. The rail- jH roads hope to move these today. The Santa Fe states that its over- ll land line probably will be restored to H service today. The city council will i fl meet tonight to consider means of 'H raising $250,000 immediately to re- jH pair damage' done to streets. The 1 county also wil be put to large ex- ijl pense to washed out bridges. Il Towns in Southern California have '1 suffered in proportion. No fresh vec- il etables or meat have come into Los '1 Angeles for four days and refrigerator ! supplies have been drawn on. As I'jl there were no other method of secur- jng milk, the milk dealers of the city had fire thousand gallons in ten il gallon cans pulled across the San jl Gabriel river on a cable. j IHI San Bernardino, Calif., Feb. 23. Railroad traffic with the cast was restored today. Cajon Pass, on the Santa Fe rail- jfl road was cleared of storm wreckage, washouts were repaired aud forty jH trains from the east, storm-bound since Saturday night, began moving ijl toward Los Angeles. Many eastbound trains also were JH started for Chicago. San Francisco. Feb. 23. Rail com-munication com-munication between this city and iH Los Angeles, demoralized by the worst storm southern California has ever suffered, is to bo opened to-night, to-night, according to announcement today by railroad officials. |