Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-13
WANY TOURISTS
ARE STORMB0UNO
HUNDREDS ARRIVE ON FIRST
TRAINS IN
Rains In the North Continue, but Rail-
ways Manage to Get Traffic
Moving After Serious
Delays

The disastrous effects of last week s
storm assumed a much more real air
yesterday than the mere reports had
conveyed when ten carloads of grimy,
unkempt, half-starved passengers ar
rived at the Southern Pacific depot.
Marooned by the raging floods that
washed out culverts and bridges and
left tracks suspended I'm midair the
worn out travellers, between 600 and
1000 of them, have many interesting
and thrilling tales to recount.
The widespread extent of the damage
can be gathered from the fact that
railway officials do not expect coast
line trains to get through to San
Francisco for another week. A coast
train was sent out yesterday and got
as far as Ventura; but since then the
road has been repaired to Santa Bar
bara and another train, which the Of
ficils expect to reach Santa Barbara,
will leave on the coast line at this
morning.
AT the San Francisco offices it was
stated that the company did not expect
to get the coast line trains through
before Tuesday. The most serious
washout of the whole road is at Sole
dad, where a great section 100 feet
long and twenty feet wide has been
washed away.
The train from New Orleans was sent
around the valley route and arrived
in Los Angeles safely The owl Is
being run daily on the regular sched-
ule.
Several carloads of passengers were
sent on as far as San Luis Obispo
during the storms, but had to be sent
back to San Jose and from there over
to Niles and down the San Joaquin
valley. When their provisions on the
train became exhausted these passen-
gers had to try the fast cure, as the
n dI-n1 S,f Il,
ceded them along the line had eaten
up all the provisions in sight.
Come South by Steamer
According to the law. the railroad
companies must feed their passengers
after they have been detained forty
eight hours; and for this reason the
company was very anxious to get its
passengers safely to their destination.
To accomplish this transfers" were
given for the steamer Santa Rosa to
passengers who desired them. This
steamer left Santa Barbara with
large crowd of passengers who were
unwilling to stay in the little coast
city, where thousands of belated tour
lists annually congregate during flood
time. 1t arrived in Los Angeles yes
terday morning, crowded to the rails.
In the lowlands of Salinas a mighty
torrent of water from the Upper Sa-
linas and the Arroyo Seco made the
district a vast swirling lake, whose
muddy waters have oVerflowed thou
sands of acres of fertile fields Potato
and beet fields We're inundated, live
stock was drowned and in some places
the ranchers had narrow escapes for
their lives.
party of five Chinese were almost
drowned in attempting to escape from
the floods in a small boat. Their little
craft was overturned by an eddy and
they were deserted by a party of res
cuers hanging desperately to a clump
of willows a hundred yards from the
Southern Pacific railroad bridge. They
were lassoed and brought ashore. but
one of them died a few hours after.
Residents of Gary, east of Santa
Maria, We're compelled by the floods
to leave their homes as late as Friday
night. In those sections it is still
raining.