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Show HOMES CARRIED AWAY IN STORM Scarcely a Tree Left in Western Section of Needles, Cal. NEEPEES. Cal.. Sept. 2 Several! houses wore torn from their founds-1 tlons. roofs of houses were blown a distance of two blocks and icarcely tree was left In the western section by storm which struck here Friday night and still raging east of the town earlv today. The roofs of the anta Fe round -house and car shops were torn off I and the fence surrounding the shops( blown down. Plato glass windows, rre shattered and the concrete walls of a confectionery shop blown down The city was in darkness Friday night with electric wires down. Several Sev-eral minor washouts as a result of the cloudburst accompanying the storm w.re reported on the Santa Fe line near hero, but so far as could bo learned learn-ed todsy there were no persons hurt In or near Needles. J. E Elklna. chief dispatcher for tho Santa F. narrowly escaped aerloue In-Jury In-Jury or death when a tree was torn up by the roots and blown across his automobile. |