Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-05
STORM IN CALIFORNIA CLAIMS big
FINANCIAL LOSS and SEVEN LIVES

After a big steel bridge over the
river buckled and broke early today.
the Southern Pacific and. Santa Fe rail
roads sent heavy cars loaded with
scrap iron and heavy powders plung-
ing into the flood in efforts to divert
further inroads by the storm waters,
which threatened railroad tracks skirt
ing the river banks. The sweep of the
floods was SO strong at. times how
ever, that these barriers were turned
aside and crowded out CT the way of
the waters sa .--. IL. -.
Besides numerous houses that top
pied off the caving banks. the river
usually dry bed called river by cour-
tesy-swept away the Los Angeles
Pigeon Farm Extensive coteS tum-
bled into the stream before daylight
and thousands of pigeons were
drowned. xsIe>. -
10 to IL Inches OF Rain. =
From 10 to IL inches of rain fell
during the three days in various sec
tons outside CT Los Angeles.
Whittier, suburb of Los Angeles.
reported a shortage of food, which
would become acute If transportation
facilities were not restored within
day or two. -.
Claremont, near Pomona. also was
isolated. and the supply of bread was
reDorted to be on famine basis.
The water system supplying Clare
mont was seriously damaged. and the
towns supply of drinking water was
cut off for a time. -. 49,.
Pasadena suffered the same trouble.
and the Orange Grove avenue district,
populated almost exclusively by a
colony of western millionaires. had to
get its supply of drinking water by
the pailful from city water wagons
sent out after a big water main broke.
At San Pedro. several of the inner.
channels Of the harbor were filed hy
silt washed down by the floods. In
some channels depth of only SIX to
10 feet was found at high tide where
normally they should show depth of
90 to 80 feet. Shipping. however. was
not interfered with, as the silt did not
effect any of the main channels.
Citrus Plant Inundated.
In San Bernardino an overflow OF
Lyle creek damaged the water svs-
tenn. cutting eff great portion of the
city's supply by putting pumping STA
tions cut OF commission. East Col
ton. suburb. was inundated. A ST.
100000 railroad citrus fruit pre-cool-
ing plant was flooded
Three hundred visitors from Coro-
IA to the National Orange Show at
San Bernardino were marooned when
the railroads were tied up last night,
and started to walk home. distance
OF % miles. today In the party were
most of Corona's principal business
men and they said they had to get
home or Corona would do no business
today. Corona later reported they had
not reached home.
Riverside and Redlands were flood
ed, and were out of communication to-
night. The Los Angeles weather bu-
reau predicted more rain tonight and
tomorrow, with prospects of clear
weather tomorrow night.
Lives Lost in Storm.
One man was drowned at Alhambra
last night. and. at Victorville. in the
Mojave desert. a hurricane destroyed
the home of Mrs. Grace Sprague. who
vas killed in the collapse.
At Huntington Beach Eva Preston.
2 22-year-old student at the Univer-
sity of Southern California. became
confused by the high wind and pelt-
ing rain and stepped in front Of a