Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-01-21

a few old blankets spread. Here the
Celestials proposed to sleep even last
nipht-wot above them, wet beneath
/ them. wet all round them. One OF them
said: sNo nance hab this landee. No
more lain fall heap good; growee corn,
ebery thing, heap good.
In another flood the water, dividing at
this poiut Of willows, may force part OF
the river TO make bad break in along
the Woodworth place and the JEFF
| White place. thence down Center street.
Or at Macy it wouldn't take much to
/ turn IL towards Alameda street. At or
below Also such q current would be met
by another making with big head to the
west, and then the fate of that tract
would be worse than it even now is.
These patent facts all go to show the
necessity Of levee-no sand bags nor
loose sand--no school boy business such
as the past has seen. 1t must be broad
and strong, with pleuty Of rock work
facing to the stream.
1t is a little bard to see how this is to
be gotten. The city cannot levy bonds
for it. All her credit is out. Taxes
will hardly do. The property holders
are not rich enough to do this for them
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least-too foolish to let the railroad do
it for them for the mere right Of way.
How strong the current was in back Of
the jeff White place may be
seen by the immense timbers
in such large numbers that were carried
in there. In the debris were also found
an old mattrass. etc, the contents of
some house washed out further up the
stream.
The covered bridge ought to have a
medal for the gallant way it has stood
two big floods. 1t needs little porous
plaster for its back, which shows some
weakness, but teams were crossing it all
day. Ali the Boyle Heights people get
ia and out Of the city that way.
The west approach to this grand old
monarch Of the waves needs some
tonic too, or the "third time," SO pro-
verbally fatal, will ''fetch him sure"
Everything is weak where the uncov-
cred plank way leads to the bridge. At
this point the current Of the river is ter
rifle because it is all pent up in narrow
confines. If the approach is carried
away the tide will set in that direction.
The abutment under the west end of the
bridge proper will catch the brunt of il
and will be forced to "succumb TO the
force of circumstances over which
lit has no control "And if
the foe once gain the bridge
the covered one-"what hope to save"
the bridges that lie below this monster.
He will sweep all before him as he makes
headlong down the tide.
While the HERALD tramp stood in
specting this the Southern Pacific train
from the eastward came in to the cross
ing Of the track and the county road.
The mail wagons were on the way to
meet the train.
Below the bridge lay an old spring
mattrass swept from some house further
up.
Behind the gas works, near the Also
street bridge, lie thousands OF little
dead fish. Were these the contents of
some ones wrecked carp pond, or are
they baby, speckled beauties from the
mountain streams?
In some parts Of the flooded districts
women were relaying their carpets in
hopefuIness Of no more flood.
The Also tract presented scene Of
wide desolation where over the district
bounded by Also, First and into Vignes
street there is hardly house left.
AT the corner Of Banning and Center
the house which has stood two floods
totters on only two legs. 1t was saved
by the floor Of one Of the bridges getting
caught on a fence and being held there,
where it became a break water. This
saved the island and its little bunch of
houses. Another such victory will ruin
that island. There will not be the
breadth of mans hand of it left.
The gullies cut by the foods down
Center, Turner and Banning streets,
down the avenue in Linden Park, and
Through Mrs. Bigelow's vineyard, show
the violence Of the wild swirl Of waters.
Look at them and realize the danger
they braved who faced them to save life
or property.
The poor horses stood all day on the
| First-street bridge. Ii was reported
that some one had braved the stream,
which was still deep and swift, to bring
them fodder. An effort should be made
| to get these poor animals to dry land.
Mrs. Bigelow's vineyard is a scene
terrible to behold. 1t is strewn far and
wide with fiotsam, from house carried
bodily from its moorings to a broken
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lamp filler, mattrass, bit of looking-giass
or old almanac from some of the ruined
houses. Here is the house OF Mrs. Mat
thews, carried off from the corner of Cen
ter and Banning streets, which sailed wi b
SO even keel until it struck big grape
vine, that there is not a thing disturbed
inside it. On table by one of the win
dows stands pretty little shrine of the
Virgin. This is in perfectly upright
state. as If the fiendish spirits Of the
food feared to disturb it. Doubtless to
the devout, whose faith is said to be
able to remove mountains. it will seem
as il this consecrated shrine protected
the home of the deyout occupant
The vineyard is covered with ''scat-
tered arms and ensigns" OF the watery
war. 1t will take long time to get it
in order again.
MRS. LIrrLE's BODY FOUND.
In this vineyard was found this morn
ing the dead body Of Mrs. Little, whose
loss was reported yesterday. Her
house on the corner Of Banning and
Center streets, all day was an object of
sad interest to the crowds that all day
long fioclked to see the scenes Of so
much suffering. The body was taken TO
the morgue, where an inquest was held,
the verdict being, Of course, acci-
dental drowning. Officers Weed
and Huston found the re-
mains of the unfortunate woman. Her
husband, whose name is William Little,
is miner at Cactus station in San Diego
county, in the Gold Drop mine. A teie-
gram was sent to him as soon as the
wires were working.
The Clark Bros. found one of their
account books near the place where their
yard had stood. 1t will be Of some serv-
ice to them in showing who is indebted
to the firm.
The mud along the river banks and up
the streets leading therefrom is
something to deter people under
most circumstances. But yesterday
and Tuesday it had no effect on the
minds of men. women or children. They
braved everything to get little Of the
excitement prevailing all along the
stream. Thousands visited the scenes
of desolation,
The Bernard bonded warehouse shows
that at its height the flood inside stood
M to the third tier of punoheons that
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forced open by the flood and as
soon as the water on the outside sub
sided, that inside ran oat There
was little or no damage done beyond the
destruction of the revenue stamps. The
government certainly ought to replace
these, and doubtless will on proper
presentation Of the case by Uncle Asa's
gontlemanly deputies.
Had the end door been forced open
and had the current got in so as to upset
the casks, brandy would have hoated
proudly out to sea and the exports OF the
year been something to tell Of As the
tiers were not disturbed the combined
weight Of the pile held everything down
in good shape.
SOME OF THE LOSSES.
| The levee built by the City Fathers in
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