Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-13
THREE KILLED,
SEVERAL HURT
IN BIG STORM
LANDSLIDE BATTERS DOWN
HOUSE AT RUBIO CANYON
HUSBAND, WIFE AND TWO Chill
DREN BURIED In RUINS
Unidentified Body Washed Ashore at
Santa Monica and Boy Drowned
in Arroyo de Los
Pesos
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out and found he was not really hurt.
Then I heard Drew and saw his arm
sticking out from a pile of timbers. 1
ran over and after much difficulty was
able to drag him out.
HE would not let me attend to any
of his wounds, but begged me to go
and find his wife and babies.
Hears Mrs. Drew Cry
ST walked around and finally heard
Mrs. Drew crying. I saw right away
that could never reach her alone.
"I went back to see Drew, who was
lying down, hardly able to talk. To
encourage him 1 told him 1 had found
his wife, and that she was all right, but
l could not get her out without help.
He asked about the children and told
him 1 had seen only the one.
''I started out to look for the chill
dren and found the two girls at one
side. They didn't seem to be much hurt.
I took them around with the little boy
to their father.
THAT Just left the child Thayer to ac-
count for, and L felt sure he was with
his mother. 1 knew I had done all 1
could alone. L ran all the way and
was nearly dead when I got to the
grocery store at Altadena. I told the
folks and they telephoned to Pasadena
for help
That Mrs Drew might have saved
herself any injury but for her moth
er's love for Thayer, the 5-year-old boy
whose body was buried in the debris,
is the story told by Dorothy, one Of
the twin girls.
Mother she said, "heard the rocks
making a funny noise, ana she pushed
me and Helen out of the door and told
us to run for the incline And we ran
awful hard, but when we looked back
there was no house at all.
Mother had gone back in the face of
almost certain destruction to save
Thayer, who was in one Of the rear
rooms of the pavilion"
Relief Train Sent
A relief train bearing physicians, po-
licemen and volunteers hurried to the
scene. Halfway up the mountain the
car struck a landslide and was obliged
to stop, but the volunteers pushed on.
Men worked waist deep in the stream
and groped under timbers piled in the
canyon.
Fred Drew was found on the rocks
where he had been dragged by Carker,
with his youngest son near him. Next
to be eXtricated from the wreck was
Mrs. Drew, whose body was found ly-
ing directly under streams Of water
flowing from a broken pipe. For a
long time it was feared she was dead,
and even now she is in a precarious
condition.
Then the men turned their attention
to recover the body of the missing
child.
DR.. A. D. S. Mccoy, DR.. Williams and
DR.. F. F. Rowland, the physicians dis
patched on the first car, attended the
victims as they were removed from the
wreck, and had them removed to the
Pasadena hospital.
On the other side of the mountain,
on the Mount Wilson trail, two mules
drawing a loaded wagon were caught
in a quicksand formed by the cloud
burst and buried to their necks. G'he
wagon was submerged and the driver.
swept from his seat, only saved him
self by grasping the overhanging
branch Of a tree beside the stream.
Ranchers helped the driver to dig his
team from the mud after the storm
subsided.