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Show oo llflLii UiiMiiyL Yuma Crowded With Refugees Man Floats Down Colorado Colo-rado River on Housetop. RELIEF PARTY SENT Whole Family Clinging to Buggy Swirled Along in Raging Waters. Yuma, Jan. 24 First hand reports of probably loss of life and great property pro-perty damage on the California side of the Colorado river began arriving here through refugees today. The town already is crowded with refugees refu-gees from the Arizona side of the river. John Seddon, the first man in from the California side, said his house in the Bard Indian reservation unit of tho Yuma irrigation project was washed wash-ed away. Floats on Housetop. He said ho took refuge on the roof and floated about in tho flood waters for six hours before being able to reach land. While on the house he asw a man, woman and two children float by, clinging to a buggy. Seddon lost all his livestock and said he believed other residents of the district suffered similar losses. Relief Party Sent. A relief party left here today bound for the Bard reservation and other flooded districts. Telephone service to tho Hanlon ' head intake dam of the Imperial Valley Val-ley irrigation system was out of order and no ward ifrom that section was received re-ceived no |