Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-24

The trestle beyondBurbank over the wash
from Tuna canon is gone. The Teiunga
long trestle is reported badly wrecked. |
AT Saugus, beyond Newhall, bridge is |
out, and another in the Soledad beyond |
Lang's has shared similar fate.
The Santa Fe line has lost the bridge |
over the Los Angeles in the city limits,
at Fruitland, and perhaps others at
Rivera, the one over the Santa Ana near
Orange, and one at San Juan on the surf |
line to San Diego. The last one is re-
ported surely gone. In the Santiago
canon, north of Orange, the Santa Ana
river and the Santa Fe track are in dan
gerous conjunction, and no doubt good
deal of damage has been done there
The rain being heaviest far from the
coast, the San Gabriel and Santa Ana
carry much heavier floods than the
Los Angeles. The Santa Fe has lost
bridge over the San Gabriel between
Duarte and Azusa, and part of one over
the Arroyo Seco in East Los Angeles.
The track all along this stream, as far as
Sycamore grove, is badly washed in
places. In the Cajon pass, north OF San
Bernardino, the storm was terrific, and
in spite OF the great work done there in
terracing and making storm sheds, the
track is in very bad condition, a good
deal OF it being washed away. Lytle
creek, coming down east OF Rialto, from
away back behind the snowy peaks of
the San Antonio mountain, carried away
the Santa Fe bridge there.
| The Terminal road has suffered the
loss OF the north end of its bridge over
the arroyo on the Glendale branch, and
the road bed along the arroyo on the
Pasadena branch is damaged little.
The new levee stood the storm well, ex-
| cepting that between the Downey ave-
nue. bridge and the Kuhrts street bridge
the river has washed in under the bot
tom OF the bulkhead, and gouged out
the sand so that the work will about all
have to be done over again. The bulk
head IS SO we'll braced and anchored
behind that the foods impetuous force
has not been sufficient to disturb it. At
all other points along the river the
embankment is almost intact and the
bulkhead is solid. A big force of men
was at work all yesterday trying to pre-
vent further damage.
The city bridges are all safe exceptinc
that at Seventh street, where the ap-
proaches were washed away. They
were only sand.
The river has not done any great
damage to private property within
the city limits. Along the Arroyo a
couple OF small cottages near where the
Santa Fe bridge crosses. were in some
danger yesterday afternoon, and another
was in a like predicament on the north
! side OF the stream. The water, however.
falls as rapidly as it rises in that cur
rent, and by last night it was almost as
low as before the flood. The county
will lose good many bridges on all the
| streams, and the same will be true in all
parts of the section.
The Los Angeles between Tropico and
the Southern Pacific crossing up stream,
above Buena Vista street, distance of
nearly six miles, is doing a good deal
of damage. Below the slaughter house,
at Chadwick Minneapolis, the river sets
against the east bank, and is washing
away badly. The river there turns at
an angle of so to So degrees, and i'm
pinges with full force against the bank.
A farm house near the bank is in some
danger. The pipe line across the river
near there, to carry water to the east
side, Was gone to the extent of 200 feet
or more yesterday afternoon, and the
river was still washing badly. The pipe
carried away was lying on the bank 500
feet below. From there to the Southern
Pacific bridge the little places along the
bank are in danger, many of the houses
being on the very bank now. One OF the
employees of the Southern Pacific work
ing in the yard has, or rather had 10-acre
ranch on the river bank, between the
stream and the track just after crossing
| the bridge over the river, that was
washed out, and he has lost almost his
| rlo1 Iolf
the stream early yesterday, the barn
| Between the slaughter-house and the
washed out bridge, distance of about
three miles, the river is working east
ward very rapidly, and a few more
storms will compel the Southern Pa
cific company to protect its track nearly
all along this stretch. At Hays little
ranch, referred to as being washed
away, the stream is 800 feet nearer the
roadbed than it was Sunday afternoon.
Had the Southern Pacific bridge gone
out broadside to the stream, all the
bridges Oh the river would have suffered.
1t broke on the west side first, and
swung end-wise down stream before the
east end came loose. 1t then went end
wise through the other bridges without
| touching anything to Downey avenue
where it stranded along side one of the
abutments OF the viaduct at that point.
These Southern Pacific bridges being
bullion piles close together, catch all the
fotsam in the food until they become a
dam without a foot of waterway. The
banked up waters carry all before them
and do great damage, if the bridge hap
pens to go out all together and broad
side to the stream.
A shocking casualty is re-
ported by wire from Monrovia, of
the loss Of a family, father, mother and
infant, on the banks OF the San Gabriel.
Details are to be found in the telegraphic
news.
The damage in the city to streets and
private property was insignificant. In
the surrounding country, as well as the
city, trees and shrubbery were wrecked
a good deal.
The cable road was not much incon-
venienced. Some one has found sim
pie means of keeping the water out of
the power-housee, by putting an iron
gate in the conduit, leaving hole just
large enough for the cable. to pass
through. What little water passes
through this is easily kept down by
means of pump. The road hardly
stopped at all.
THE LATEST.