River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1891-12-17
SWEPT BY a GALE.

A Furious Windstorm in Southern Cali
fornis Causes the Loss of Two Lives
Total Damage to Property and the
Orange Crop Estimated at over ST.
100000.
Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 14.-One of
the most destructive windstorms expe-
rienced in this section in years visited
Los Angeles and vicinity Thursday
night and early Friday morning,
reaching its climax at o'clock Friday,
when the wind blew twenty-eight
miles an hour. Its severity seems
20 have been greatest at Pasadena and
in the San Gabriel valley. So far as
reported but two persons were killed:
Mrs Brown, who lived near Glendale
and who was burned TO death, and A.
G.. Taber. at Norwalk.
In Nerdugo canyon and the Glendale
section the storm was the widest ever
known. Mrs. Brown, living in small
house ON Verdugo road, met with a
horrible death. Her house succumbed
TO the wind some time during the night
and collapsed. Mrs. Brown was caught
in the timbtrS As soon as the building
fell ii caught fire and the poor woman
was burned to death. The body was
burned to a crisp
In Los Angeles the damage was NOM
inal Pasadena, however. was less
fortunate. Reports from that place
announce the wreck of several churches
and the destruction of many
barns The Raymond hotel, which
was opened for the season
Thursday night, suffered serious
loss. Destruction to orange orchards
is reported as heavy. In exposed
places all the fruit was blown off.
First reports of loss are probably eX-
aggerations, but it is evident from
the damage done TO buildings
that the loss of fruit will be
large. All wires on the line of the
Santa Fe are down except single wire
east via Barstow. Reports made by
passengers coming in are that a NUM-
Der of buildings along the line are
blown down and much fruit blown from
the trees.
The storm " as terrific up in the San
Francisco valley. The old mission at
San Fernando was shaken up as it
never was before. Great chunks of
adobe walls weighing tons were hurled
about. Big timbers, placed in position
in the misty past, were suddenly
dragged from their resting places and
tossed about
At Burbank the Presbyterian church
was wrecked. Here and there along
the Los Angeles river section barns
and fences were wrecked At Los
Feliz Chinaman was caught under a
flying roof and badly injured. Another
Chinaman was struck on the head by
falling timbers
A colored family was deprived of its
home in an instant. The members
were asleep when the gale picked up
the house and carried it some distance.
They were left in the middle of the
floor. Many barns and small buildings
were either shattered or blown down.
Three coaches on the Rapid Transit
road were blown from the track.
On Millionaire Baldwin's fine Santa
Anita ranch, Is miles from Los An
geles, the old orange orchard, the
finest in the valley, was badly hurt and
half of the crop lies on the ground. a
magnificent row of poplars leading to
Baldwin's house was ruined, many of
the trees being uprooted.
A conservative estimate places the
loss on the orange crop at s750,O0 and
the total loss at over 81, O0O,09O
LONDON. Dec IA gale Sunday
caused much damage and the loss of
several lives. At Newport, Monmouth
shire. a house in the course of erection
was blown down by the storm and fell
on two adjoining shops, in which a
number of people happened to be
at the time. Ten persons were more
or less seriously injured. At Cam
bridge the fall of a wall, which was
overthrown by the wind, killed two
women who happened to be passing
by Other casualties are reported In
Wiltshire a barn fell, killing cow,
but not injuring the maid who was
milking the animal