Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-25
THE STORM is OYER.
But Wreck and Ruin are
Left In Its Wake.
The Railroads Suffer the Heav-
lest Losses.
Southern California Roads Badly
Washed Out.
Tho Expensive Repairs in Soledad Can
yon Completely Ruined-The Town
OF Yuma in Peril.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 24.--The storm
which has been general the past two
days badly crippled telegraphic COM
munication, and the Western Union to
Los Angeles was but recovered today.
Trains have been delayed in many
directions by landslides.
The Signal service reports the rainfall
of the past twenty-four hours as follows
Carson City, 20; Sacramento, .3s;
Fresno, 10; San Francisco, 10; Los
Angeles, so; Yuma, .42.
The barometer is rapidly rising, and
the storm appears to be over in all
quarters.
The latest reports show that the storm
is about over. Serious damage has been
done to railway property, and especially
in the southern portion of the state,
Soledad caiion, on the Southern Pacific
line, entering Los Angeles from this
city, is in almost as bad condition as
last year. Much of the new and costly
work, which required ten months to
IL.
Two hundred feet of the bridge, west OF
los LOS, Anssles, ,sles, was carried away. The
track was washed out, the pile work
broken up, Aid the tunnel at the en-
trance to the canon damaged.
On the Yuma divislen eioht bents of
the big bridge were destroyed. and the
track is six feet out Of line in many
places. A bridge near Ell Monte Was also
swept away. Three washouts have oc-
CURED between Pomona and Cucamonga,
and east of Cotton $500 feet of track, the
round house and sidings and everything
movable has been carried away by water.
Between Cotton and Banning several
bridges have been weakened.
On the Santa Ana branch the track is
under water for long stretches, and at
some places has been swept away. South
OF Downey station the new railroad
bridge has been destroyed, and the town
itself flooded.
Between Seven Palms and Yuma the
track Is in very. bad condition. Over
100 miles between Seven Palms and
Yuma the wires are down, and nothing
definite is known of the condition of the
track.
The Sunset route will probably be in
operative for week, and no tickets to
New Orleans will be sold at present.
Tho atlantic oud Pacific hac q bad
washout near Barstow and has sus-
pended the sale of overland tickets via
Mojave for one week. Passengers will
be sent east over the Central Pacific.
The latter route is in good condition, as
is also the Shasta line.
PASADENA, Feb. 4.-Communication
has just been established here by wire
with the north and east. Over six
inches of rain has fallen since Saturday.
The storm has been OF remarkable vio-
lence. Sunday night portion of the
roof of the Raymond hotel was blown
off and many windows shattered. result
ing in considerable damage to the furni-
ture. A massive stone dam erected at q
large expense by James w. Scoville, a
Chicago millionaire, was swept away by
the raging waters of the Arroyo Seco.
Both the Santa Fe and the Terminal
roads have had washouts between here
and Los Angeles, and the train service
has been at standstill for two days.
Southern California trains will begin
running tomorrow. No mail has ar
rived from the east since Sunday. To-
night the weather is clear and cool, but
more rain is predicted.
SAN BERNARDINo, Feb. 24.-Rain con-
tinued to fall most of the time last
night and today, but not so heavy as
heretofore. The Santa Ana river is
very high yet, but doing little damage.
The other streams have subsidized to
great extent. The work of repairing
bridges has commenced in limited
way. No railroad trains are running.
except between this city and Redlands,
on the Santa Fe line.
The county hospital was threatened
by the Lytle creek flood, but the wash
ing OF the banks at that point has
ceased, and all danger is over unless a
heavy storm sets in again.
The Santa Fe line in Ell Cajon pass is
believed to be badly washed. Four
passenger trains are stormbound be-
tween here and Barstow. The Southern
Pacific bridge east of Cotton is not
gone, but the eastern approach is badly
washed out.
Colonel Patton rescued his family,
last night, south of this CITY. by carry.
ing five ladies out from his residence
through raging flood. In places the
water was up to his shoulders, but he
safely landed all of them, and shortly
afterwards his house went down the
stream. The streams have been higher
than before since 1882. No lives are re-
ported lost 80 far.
CALICO, CAL, Feb. 24.--It has been
raining steadily for week. The Mojave
river bridge at Daggett has been washed
away; also two thousand feet of the
Barstow bridge, and the town of Bar
stow is partially submerged. There is
no communication with those places
save by telegraph.
CHIco, CAL, Feb. 24.-The western
end of the Chico toll bridge across the
Sacramento river was carried away this
morning. A wheat barge which was be-
ing toweG down the river, became un-
manageable and struck a pier. The
bridge came down on the barge, and to-
gether they floated down the river two
miles before being caught. The loss
from this will amount to $4,000.
IN ARIZONA