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Show FLOODS 1ST LOS ANGELES. ftormi Convert the Kiver Into a s- Roaring Torrent-Sad Kcsults. . San Fbancisop, January 22. General Traffic Traf-fic Manager J. C. Stubbs, of the Southern Pacific Company, reports the company's lines between New Orleans and Los Angeles open and all trains between those cities running run-ning on time to-day. The repairs between Los Angeles and Mojave are progressing favorably.. fa-vorably.. Telegraph wires are working to nearly all the places. The steamer "Orizaba,'' "Ori-zaba,'' which arrived to-day from Los Angeles, An-geles, brings details of the devastation produced pro-duced by the storm in that city and vicinity. The rains of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday were reinforced by a cloud-burst in San Fernando Fer-nando valley on the last-named day, and Loa Angeles river, almost without warning, became a baging tobbent And soon flooded the southern part of the centre of the town. The water also covered over 2,000 acres of orchard and vineyard and rose two feet higher than the flood of February, Feb-ruary, 1884. Over fifty houses were washed away or completely wrecked. Every bridge across the Los Angeles river was swept away and also hundreds of feet of track on the Southern Pacific and local railroads. Telegraph Tele-graph poles, were included in the general destruction,;and for three days the city was cut off from telegraphic and railroad communication com-munication with the rest of -the world. Mrs. Kate Lytle and Theresa Whitney, daughter of Thomas Whitney, carpenter, were drowned while being rescued from partially wrecked houses. A number of other lives are reported to have been lost. A large number of stock also perished. The damage to property in the city and county of Los Angeles is estimated at half a million mil-lion dollars. Orders have been received by Postmaster Backus from the Department at Washington to send the Southern mails via Ogden, owing to the blockade on the Southern Pacific caused by the washouts. |
