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Show FLOODS ISOLATE WINTER RESORT Long Beach, California, Converted Con-verted Into Island by Three to Eight Feet of Water. i GAS SUPPLY SHUT OFF I Rivers in Arizona Overflow Banks and Hundreds of Workmen Patrol Levees. Long Beach, Calif., Jan. 19. Surrounded Sur-rounded on north, east and west by flood waters, and faced by the Pa-f Pa-f clfic ocean, Long Beach, a summer and winterresort of 40,000 souls, has L been temporarily converted into an ; island, with its industrial section in ', tho lowlands covered with from three to eight feet of water. Commuters to Los Angeles were ob- liged to change cars today and walk ! single file In a driving downpour of ; rain over a weakened trestle of the " Pacific Electric company's road, while a torrent of tumbling muddy water reared below them. Gas Supply Shut Off. 1 The city's natural gas supply was shut off lae last night and artificial 1 gas was substituted. A launch and barge were sunk at the municipal wharf with a loss estimated at $3,500. Jesus Martinez and his eight children chil-dren were rescued when floods carried car-ried away their house. Floods Endanger Arizona. Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 19. Six feet of water was flowing over Roosevelt dam today reports received riere said. This overflow added greatly to the flood danger from Salt river. The Gila river also was out of its banks. Hundreds of workmen patroled the levee southeast of here to prevent a break which would send the waters into the lower sections of Phoenix. S. P. Traffic Opened. Los Angeles, Cal. Jan. 19.--Southern Pacific traffic along the coast and San Joaquin valley lines was opened from here to San Francisco today after having more or less interrupted by floods and landslides for two days. Wealthy easterners trying to get In or out of Santa Barbara, a coast resort, re-sort, were able to do so, although those coming into this city from the east, including Frederick W. Vander-bilt Vander-bilt and a party, were still crawling across the desert today, having been storm-bound since Monday. Sixteen washouts on various roads are reported report-ed in the first 125 miles east of Los Angeles. Debris in the Arroyo Seco, a big gully in the northern part of Los Angeles, An-geles, was dynamited today to prevent pre-vent -flooding. Rain began falling again and people began fearing further floods. Communication Com-munication was established again with San Diego today which has been cut off except by wireless and sea since Monday. |