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Show TERRIFIC FLOOD CARRIES AWAY BUILDING AND SIX PERSONS 'Structure Was Terminus of Pacific Electric Line at Base of JIf. ; Lowe-Rescue Parties With Physicians Sent From Pasadena-Bother and Child in Ruins Cries Beard, Rescuers Unable to Reach ThemCities and Towns in - . Sacramento Vaiiey Warned of Impending Storm. are sufficient to cause apprehension of high water 'in the San Joaquin river and its tributaries. - Mormon channel has gone out of its banks at Linden, and the water is rising in" the Stockton channels. The. storm is continuing with increased in-creased fury at Sacramento. In many places- throughout lhat'eity. in the residence resi-dence district, the streets are flooded. The Sacramento river is rising , slowly, all the way from Its source, and today registers 23.1 feet at this point. The American registers 13.4 at Folsom, a rise of 5.8 feet since yesterday. yester-day. - - . . . r Pasadena, Cal., Feb. 12. Following . ' a cloudburst In Rubio canyon above Pasadena at 1:30 this afternoon, a terrific ter-rific flood of water .came down the narrow nar-row canyon, carrying away the foun- dation of the Rlbo canyon pavilion at the foot of Mount Lowe Incline, which Is built over the canyon at this point, precipitating the building Into the ravine, ra-vine, and burying six persons In the ruins. Several of these persons were badly hurt. Fred T. Drew, agent of the Pacific Electric railroad, with his wife, and four children, .resided In a email house built as a part of the pa-villon pa-villon and all were carried into the canyon. Ernest Stracker, another employe of the Pacific Electric, was near by at the time of the dlseaster, and ran a mile and a half to Altadena to give tho alarm. Drew was rescued from the ruins badly Injured. Three ot the children were also rescued without with-out having suffered serious injuries. Mrs. Drew and the Temainmg child were still in the ruins an hour alter tho collapse of the building. Her ' cries for help could be heard but those who first reached the scene were unable to get her out. Rescue parties with physicians , were sent from this city on two special spe-cial electric cars immediately. . The structure which gave, way was the terminus of the Pacific Electric line at the base of Mount Lowe incline, in-cline, and Included the .depot, ticket cfflce, waiting room, lunch room, dance hall and residence of the Drews. The , railroad tracks ran out on the platform plat-form and these were also carried down. The incline railroad, It is said, was not damaged to any extent, although the line was temporarily out of commission because of the damage to the lower end. Parties from Echo mc .in ain ran down the mountainside ntarly a mile to the scene of the disinter dis-inter and aided in the work or rescue res-cue ' ' ' The rainfall In the mountains and foothills above Pasadena was -very heavy today and all of the canyons carried Hoods of storm waters. San Francisco, Feb. 12. Cities and towns in the Sacramento valley havo been notified to prepare for a repeti- ' tlon of the damaging storm of a month ago, when the Sacramento river and its tributaries were swollen to their j highest flood stages by excessive rainfall. rain-fall. Melting 'snows "and , a tremend-1 1 ous volume of - water in the Sierra I Nevada mountains are expected to tax I the strength of levees along the river's j entire course and earliest reports from j the threatened sections Indicate that the day will note a rapid rise of flood waters. I j The rainfall, for etovr-n days of February, Feb-ruary, exceeda the average for sixty years by nearly an inch, and, since the first of the month, there have been . but two clays without precipitation. The February rainfall in this city, up to 3 o'clock today, was -1.05 inches. Storm warnings are displayed along the entire California coast, and there Is a prospect for heavy precipitation over the greater part of the state tonight to-night and probably tomorrow. Traffic has not been seriously disturbed up to this time. The Southern Pacific today reported all clear, the landslide at Surf having been cleared. From the Salinas valley come reports re-ports of enormous damage to crops One new bridge has been washed away and several others menaced. Hundreds of acres erf farming lands have bef-n washed away or overflowed in the vicinity of Salinas. Reports from Stockton this morning J |