Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-17

>one-hundredths of an inch.
"Rainmaking" is a science, says Hat
field, just like anything else, and now
there will be "nothin' to it," South
ern California will have no need of
irrigation schemes in future, for Hat
field has solved the whole problem, and
henceforth this glorious section will
blossom like the rose.
Much Damage Caused
But while the southland has been
undergoing this experiment with the
young "rainmaker," untold damage
has been caused. Los Angeles has
twice within the past week been iso-
lated from the outside world. in SO far
as railroad communication has been
concerned. Telegraph and telephone
wires have been blown down, and it
has been extremely difficult to con-
tinue operations.
Yesterday witnessed another severe
rainstorm which played havoc with
the railroads. The wind was light.
'lowever, so that the damage was not
nearly so great as during the tornado
of Sunday and Monday.
The only fatality recorded as n result
OF yesterdays continuation of the
storm was at San Pedro, where a
French sailor was drowned.
Drowned in Skiff
The accident occurred in the outer
harbor, near the entrance to the inner
channel. Louis Legrande, member of
the crew of the ship Bangaore, aged
rs years, endeavored to make shore in
small skiff, but the boat was
swamped. and before assistance could
reach him he went down. Legrande
wore heavy suit of clothes, so that
his body did not come to the surface of
the water after it sank
Both the coast and valley lines of the
Southern Pacific are in bad condition.
Trains are stalled at Santa Barbara.
bakersfield, Burbank and San Fernan-
do. with hundreds of passengers
aboard. Many of them are said to be
suffering from the hardships encount-
cred.
The Santa Fe is also experiencing
much i'll luck with its tracks at Caion
pass, and only one train came In over
that line yesterday. Sand is piled high
on the tracks and workmen find it
difficult to unload it, as the rain con-
tues to wash it back
Several sections of southbound pas
senger trains came in over the South
ern Pacific yesterday, but it is not
thought traffic will be resumed on
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Mails Greatly Delayed
The damage to the railroads has
greatly delayed the mails since last
Saturday
Local street car traffic has been
much impeded on account of yester-
days rain storm. The Hollywood and
Colegrove lines of the Los Angeles
Pacific Railway company were closed
all day by heaps OF sand for hundreds
OF yards at a stretch over the tracks.
Water from the low lands flooded the
tracks in places, carrying away por-
tons of ii.
In Los Angeles many Of the streets
We're veritable rivers of water at inter-
walls during the storm Pedestrians
stood on corners waiting patiently for
the water to run off. AT Seventh and
Olive streets the flood was so severe
as to wash car off the track. No one
was injured, however, and the damage
TO the ear was only nominal.
AT Pico and Fisueroa streets the wa
ter was deep enough for a skiff. A
man named George Rogers caught a
woman up in his arms. who weighed
nearly 225 pounds, and carried her
across the street as If she were a mere
baby. Rogers. who is six feet tall,
says the water was over foot deep
at this point and he found II no easy
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