The record-union., 1891-12-12
DESTRUCTIVE WINDS.
A HEAVY GALE PASSES OVER
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
Two Lives Reported Lost-The Ray
mond Hotel, at Pasadena,
Badly Damaged.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1or.

Los ANGELES, Dec. 1l.-One of the
most destructive wind-storms that has
visited this section in years visited Los
Angeles and vicinity last night and early
this morning, reaching a climax at Z
O'Clock this morning, when the wind
reached velocity of 4S miles an hour. Its
severity seems to have been greatest at
Pasadena and in the San Gabriel Valley.
So far as reported but two persons were
killed-a Mrs. Brown, living near Glen
dale, and A. G. Taber, at Norwalk.
In Los Angeles the damage was nomi-
nal. Pasadena, however, was less for
tunate. Reports from that place an
nounce the wreck of several churches
and the destruction of many barns. The
Raymond Hotel has suffered serious loss,
the roof of the west gable being carried
off when the gale was at it's highest The
Raymond was opened for the season on
Thursday night. Fortunately no one
was injured by the accident to the roof.
The destruction to orange orchards is
reported heavy in exposed places. The
fruit was blown off or thorned The first
reports of the loss are probably exagger-
ated, but it is evident from the damage
done to buildings that the loss of fruit
will be large All the wires on the line
of the Santa Fe are down, except single
wire East via BarStOW.
Reports made by passengers coming in
are that number of buildings along the
line are blown down, and much fruit has
been blown from the trees
In the Nerduco Canyon and Glendale
sections the storm was the widest ever
known.
Mrs. Brown. living in small house on
Nerduco, met with terrible death. Her
house Succum bed to the wind some time
during the night. 1t was a small str1ct-
ure and set up high from the ground. 1t
collapsed. and Mrs. Brown was caught i'm
the timbers. From that position she
could not extricate herself As soon as
the building fell it caught fire, and the
poor woman was burned to death. The
body was burned to crisp.
The storm was terrific up in the San
Fernando Valley. The old mission at
San Fernando was shaken up like It
never was before. Great chunks of
adobe walls weighing a Ton 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 Felese a Chinaman was caught
under flying roof and badly injured.
head by falling timber.
The Holiness Church at Monrovia was
wrenched from its foundation. The stee-
pie of the Baptist Church was totally
wrecked, and some of it was carried
away. The Methodist Church also came
in for severe treatment. The interior was
badly demoralized. A colored family was
deprived of their home in an instant.
They We're asleep when the gale picked
up their house and carried it some dis
tance. They were left in the middle of
the floor. Many barns and small build
ings were either shattered or blown
down. Three coaches on the Rapid
Transit road were blown from the track.
1t is reported that the old Mission
Church at San Gabriel was badly dam
aged by the gale, that part of the adobe
wall where the bells hang being demol-
1shed. The storm in that section of the
valley was very severe. A number of
houses in town were damaged. The old
orange orchards were damaged by the
trees being broken by the force of the
gale.
Considerable damage was done at Car
yanza and other places in the vicinity.
reports from all points, as far as San
Bernardino, indicate that the storm was
general.