Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-01-26
THE STORM.
Too Mach of ~ Good Thing.


After three days of sunshine, and
when everybody was beginning to
congratulate everybody else on the
beautiful weather, Sunday afternoon
brought some portentious clouds. The
evening came on with hardly star
visible and about IL O'clock at night
the threatened rain commenced. At
first, it was a steady shower with a
slight fall, but towards morning a
strong wind set in from the North
east, which amounted almost to a
gale, and the rain came in torrents.
The wind subsidized during the fore
noon yesterday, the rain gradually
slackened, and by 5 O'Clock, we were
very nearly treated to Il glimpse of
sunshine. t
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
Was done by the storm in blowing
down trees, fences, signs, etc. On the
corner of Spring and Franklin streets,
fine pepper tree was thrown over
against the fence; on Mr. dc Cells
place, in the Southern part Of the city,
several large walnut trees were ruined,
the bodies being broken off near the
ground. 1t is feared also that much
damage may have been done to the
growing fruit, now in various stages
of development.
THE RAILROADS. m
The effect on the different railroad
branches running from this city was
most disastrous. All of the recent re-
pairs were washed away and the roads
were left in even u worse condition
than after the previous rains. No
trains were run on the Wilmington,
Anaheim and Spadra branches, but q
successful trip was made to San Fer
nandO, the train bringing down our
Northern and Eastern mail at p. NJ.
The Wilmington road is damaged near
Cerritos, rendering it impossible.
The Anaheim branch has suffered the
worst of all. A dispatch to Superin-
tendent Hewitt from Mr.. Higgins, at
Downey City, stated that near Coyote
creek the track was two feet under
water for distance of fifty feet and
the water was. running with n strong
current. The false work this side of
that PLACE was carried away. New
River was very high and still rising,
bringing down much brush. The
| bulkhead at the Los Angeles river
was washed away. At JamisOn's,
about 400 yards of track was washed
off and at many places the water was
making u complete destruction OF the
| line.
REPAIRING FORCES.
Nothing was attempted on the Ana
helm branch, except to save ties and
stringers from being sweptof by the
| flood. Forces of men were at work on
| all the other roads, but they labored
| against hope, while the rain continued.
| To-day we have slight grounds for hope
| that any of the roads will be in opera
| tion, and, should the rain continue, all
| attempts at repairs may have to be
abandoned until the weather becomes
settled. hAf 81 z lNas ilHa3
THE RAINFALL.
| The rain-gauge kept by the telegraph
operator at the depot, Mr.. Caffery,
showed a fall of 2.24 inches from Sun
day night to 4 clock yesterday AFTER
noon. Mr.. Ducommun's gauge indi-
Gated 3.96 inches up to yesterday noon.
There is evidently mistake In the
calculation somewhere, but it is safe
to say that over three inches of rain
fell. This makes, for the season,
about twenty-one inches. 1t is to be
hoped that the elements will give us a
respite for time now, as another
storm like that of Sunday night would
work almost irreparable damage.