Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-03-17

Vi sho Country are tn1nking OF coming
into town In boats.
DEATHS BY THE STORM.
Two more unfortunates were carried
into eternity by the storm yesterday, a
cloud bursting outside San Buena Ven
tura and sweeping away a Chinese
shanty and two Monaghan gardeners
who were in it at the time. The force of
the water was simply terrific, and it
lifted mountain of sand in its em-
braces. lodging good deal of the gritty
substance in the houses around, Mr..
Sheridan's residence being filed at the
basement to the depth of two feet. The
bodies of the two men who were ship
wrecked off Redondo Beach have
not yet been recovered, and there
is no clue as yet to their
identity. The Redondo Beach officials
claim to know nothing of the catastrophe
beyond the fact that the sailboats and
the men were seen outside the harbor
on Thursday night and that the frag-
ments of the boat were washed up on
the beach the next afternoon. As the
account of the tragic affair which ap-
peared in yesterdays HERALD was mar
rated by an eyewitness, its authenticity
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ON THE SEA.
A good many Angelefios who had
friends on the Queen of the Pacific,
which went North on Thursday, were
fearful lest harm had befallen them, but q
dispatch was received by Mr.. w. Paris,
early yesterday morning, stating that the
noble craft had entered the Golden Gate
on time. The Corona, which arrived at
San Pedro yesterday, was late owing to
the hard fight with the waves during the
night. Advices from San Pedro state
that the harbor is bar-bound owing to
the enormous amount of sand loosened
up. At 2 P. NJ. last night reports to the
HERALD from the different points were
as follows: San Pedro, cloudy and calm /;
Santa Monica, cloudy, southeast wind I;
Wilmington, raining, southwest wind |;
Long Beach, cloudy, south wind; Re-
dondo Beach, cloudy and calm. No dis
asters during the day were reported from
any of the harbors.
IN THE CITY.
Those who have during the summer
months laughed at the idea of calling the
Los Angeles river, a river, should go and
look at it now. There is water from
bank to bank, and it is running with a
violence that coon discovers the weak
places on the bridges. A HERALD man
yesterday took trip down to the levee in
order to see what damage had actually
been done, and found things to be as
follows:
Three of the big timbers in the Downey
avenue bridge washed away. Ten feet
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the Kuhrts street bIidge had met SINH
lar fate. One hundred feet of the sand
on the north side of the levee below
Kuhrts street and 900 feet below Macy
street washed out. The approach to the
Alieo street bridge was in such a condi-
ton that it had to be filled in with straw,
brush and broken sewer pipe. The tenn
porary inclines at the First street bridge
were gone. The approaches to the
Seventh and Ninth street bridges were
washing badly.
At all plaqes where the levee was in
jured the Santa Fe had gangs of laborers
hard at work filling in and repairing the
damage. The dog-pound met an un-
timely fate during the night, being car
ried off to parts unknown, to the great
joy of the incarceratedA CANNES, who
swan to the shore and made for up town
as fast as their legs could carry them.
The breaking down cf the Downey-
avenue bridge necessitatad the stopping
of all traffic over it, and the street-car
service bad to be checked across the
river, to the great distress of the resi-
dents on the East side. The Boyle Heights
line kept running, however, although
at the crossing of Alameda street the
water came rushing into the vehicles and
the passengers had to climb on to the
seats. The Garvanza toll bridge also
met with calamity during the day and
was declared impossible, thus cutting off
another section from communication
with town.
Around the town evidences of the
storm are visible on every side. The
Nadeau barber shop and the offices of
the hostelry were flooded early in the
morning by the backing up of the water
from the storm sewer and similar in
stances were heard of in different
quarters as the day went on. A pump
had to be put in operation outside of
Heinzemann's drug store on Main street,
for "three feet of water in the hold" was
the report of one of the clerks who went
down into the basement for a roll of
bandages. The cellar in the Phillips
Block was also inundated, and on Fort
street, at the head of Franklin, the en-
bankment which has recently been ce-
mented up SO as to permit Of an elevator
being run, caved in.
The side streets are in terrible con-
dition ,gumboots being almost necessity
if one desires to travel along them. Even
on the newly paved thoroughfares the
crossings are slushy, and pools of water
are to be seen on all sides,
THE RAINFALL.
The fficial register of the rainfall for
the season up to P. N. yesterday
showed IL 65-100 inches, of which
2 45.100 inches had fallen during the
twenty-four hours ending at noon. The
Southern Pacific rain-gauge showed 9
register of 75-100 inches for the storm
up to A. M. yesterday /; that OF the Signal
Service recorded 38-100 inches up to
P. NJ, while Mr.. G. w. Burton's glass
showed 5 20-100 inches up to 5 80 P. M.
THE PROSPECTS,.
At O'Clock this morning the sky was
still cloudy, but no rain had followed
for the preceding three hours The
Southern Pacific's reports from all along
the coast at P. NJ. showed that it was
cloudy and raining all through the north
and cloudy all over the branches and tC
the south, SO, unless a strong wind blows
up, there will certainly be more rain
The storm was directly overhead yester-
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