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Show STORM RESULTS IN SERIOUS WASHOUTS ALONG THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC Heavy Rains in Southern California Cripple Traffic and Telephone and Telegraph CommunicationBuildings in Danger of Being Washed AwaySnow Three and One-half Feet Deep in Yosemite Valley, Val-ley, Eighteen Feet at Summit and Seven Feet at Truckee j San Francisco, Feb. S. A storm now prevailing over the entire Pacific coast has seriously interfered with railroad and telegraphic communication. Heavy rains have fallen In Southern California, Califor-nia, causing washouts along the railroad rail-road lines and carrying away telegraph tele-graph poles. There has been much snow in the mountains, and should warm weather follow, there will be another rise In the rivers, according to the reports received by the weather bureau. The Southern Pacific railroad lines are now open from Santa Barbara on the south, and to Ashland, Oregon, on the north, but below Santa Barbarn. floods have seriously crippled traffic. Seven hundred feet of track have been washed away at Oceano, and trains are unable to pass that point In the same county, travel Is also at a standstill on the Pacific Coast Railroad., and many of the country roads have been rendered render-ed Impassable. Several serious washouts wash-outs and landslides on the Tehachapl grade between Bakersfield and Los ADgeles have occurred, practrating telegraph and telephone lines and effectually ef-fectually blocking travel on the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific ralroads. This , cuts off the Southern part of the stato from direct connection with this city. In the Sacramento Valley, trains are not running between Davisvllle and MaryBvllle, on account of the embankments embank-ments along the line having teen weakened and the consequent danger of washouts. In the Yosemite Valley, there are now three and one-half feet of snow on the level and. about five feet In the drifts. There Is no Indication of an abatement of the storm. Several build-JngK-ln the valley are In danger of being be-ing washed away by the swollen streams. The outlook in Central California is for continued showers alternating with funshine. The snowfall In the Sierras on tho line of the Southern Pacific between this city and Nevada points has been very heavy.' There are eighteen feet at Summit, seven feet at Truckee and at Reno, the record has been reached. Ail trains are badly delayed. |