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Death List Due to San Diego
County Catastrophe Takes
Another Jump = Thirty
four Bodies Recovered
Up to Midnight.
HUNDREDS ARE
MADE HOMELESS
Notwithstanding Effective
Efforts to Organize Re
lief Bureau to Minister
to Their. Needs, Much
Suffering Is Reported.
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 30-The list
OF dead due to the floods which
have ravased valleys of San Die
90 county during the last four
days took another jump early to-
night, with the total of recov-
cred bodies standing at thirty
four, and the probable total cas-
uates at about sixty-fve
No one has attempted to place
a figure on the staggering proper
ty loss sustained. which has been
variously estimated at from $780,
600 to more than $1,000, 900, and
even upwards. Three hundred
persons were reported homeless
as result of the floods, and
much suffering was reported not
withstanding effective efforts to
organize a relief bureau to ad-
minister to their needs.
With a willingness and energy
which have been rewarded with high
commentator on all Sides United
States army and navy authorities
nave stepped into the breach supply
ing guards, relief parties. hospital
corps and officers and doctors to di-
1ect their movements.
Sixty days within which to even
temporarily repair such damage as
can be repaired was the time limit
Nentured by business men of the city,
who conferred informally today at
the Gambler of commerce, as neces-
sary to restore conditions to anything
like normal. Sunshine and lots of it
from now on is what all pin their
hopes on. 1t was expressed generally
today that with more rain there
would be no way of telling when re-
pairs might be completed, and it was
certain that it would add to the suf-
fering of the flood victims.
The day was one of conflicting ru-
mors and reports from widely scat
tered districts and embracing practi-
cally all the flooded areas. First
came the report of looting by armed
MeXicans in the Otay valley, where
marines were promptly sent to check
the operations of the marauders and
then the report to Rear Admiral VIII
liam F. Fullam, commander of the
Pacific Reserve Fleet, that twenty
one bodies had been recovered, bring
ing the total Otay valley dead up to
twenty nine recovered, including eight
identified dead
This report was questioned ana
upon investigation, but is was reiter-
ated again tonight and amplfed
with a report that still five more bod
les of the Otay valley victims had
been recovered by the marines and
sailors.
One of the bodies was that of an
unidentified woman whose arm was
sighted thrust from a pile of brush
The body was found imbedded in mud
and had to be dug out. The body of
q Japanese was found nearby when
g sailor stopped to pick up a shoe,
which it was found encased one of
the dead mans feet.
Shortly after noon a report was re-
ceived that a four foo5 wall of water
'tsS tttNciH QOWl lHt Id JudIltt
valley, said to have been due to a
break in the Morena dam, sixty miles
back in the I.aguna mountains. Later
this was contradicted, persons tele-
phoning from Tecate report that
o family had arrived there from Mo-
rena Saturday night with a report
that the dam was intact. but that a
tremendous volume of water was
spilling over the top of the dam,
which impounds fifteen billion feet
of water
On top of the Morena dam reports
came the one tonight that the Cuya-
maca dam, eighty miles northeast of
san Diego, had broken, turning it's
three billion feet of water into the
San Diego river at the source of
which the dam is located.
Today the first during which the
sun was unobscured, proved a busy
one for hundreds and afforded thous-
ands of others an opportunity for
viewing in part the effect of the wa
ters in the Otay, San Diego, San Luis
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