New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-30
Scores Killed in California
Floods-Propcrty DAM
age Enormous.
NORTHWEST IN GRIP
OF GREAT BLIZZARD
Railroads Paralyzed. Towns
Isolated, Rivers Overlooking
Banks and Inundating Lands.

san Diero. Cal. Jan. 90 by wireless
TO san Francisco). one hundred i'eS
have been lost, as nearly as any es g.
rante can show, and valleys Ioi my
nIes north Of the Mexican me ne
dcsolate tonight from uoouS an"
cloudburs;s i'm the wake of the storm
that has ragged over the entire racine
Coast since early Thursday -.
with the death toll IN the Otay ~!
Law ybere the lower dam OF the IAN
fo,ria Water Company broke on lhuts,
oav seemingly established at MY ana
Iii ,elief AGENCIES working IN TINT d.
rec.ion reuorts reached here late 10
dov of floods sweeping the san LUIS
Kew and san Pasqual valleys, douOiils
no loss of life. With communication
almost altogether cut of. u was I'm
possib,c 10 list accurately the hu''oe'
seventeen bodies were taken out o.
San Diego BAY before nighiiall heso
had been swept down the Otay hNe''
when the dam burst. and the cnrIeh'
of the food WAS thought TO nave 0"i
ried many others out 10 sea. -,.
Tho town of san Diego Is virtua"5
unchanged and supplementary ie
sources are available TO replace ~
REGULAR water supply. The propetrY
damage in the Otay Valley, II is De
Ueved. will reach 100000.
Railroads, highways, telephone teIe-
graph-all ordinary means or commun'
cation and reliof-wcre swept away ~
the hoods Only the sea renamed ana
from 80 aid began 20 come. an e"PeG'-
,ion from the United states wafshiPa
in San Diego Bay was started ~
launches and barges for the gay val
lev An overland expedition also was
started from San Diego, with pontoons
and engineering equipment, by wing"
il WAS hoped swollen streams might D.
crossed ard rrired roads made nassabie
lust outside the Golden Gate eignt
lives were lost yesterday "nen lns
g,rhsce carrier Aberdeen, OF Oakland,
was wrecked.
The storm struck the Northwestern
e+a.es heavily. Oregon. Washington.
Idaho and Montana reporting cold ana
snow. Montana last night shivorod IN
what was termed the worst storm IN
twenty wears. with the Thermometer
ranging from twenty 20 htt! -FOUR
ccrrees below zero. Railway irailc D.,
dem0rai'7ed on account Of drifts ana
snowsiides. A..
Food conditions prevailed IN Ar
zo~a. rerorts from Yuma being thai me
rivers above that point are swelling
RAPIDLY and that fears are entertained
Of a repetition Of the food OF last
week. Ksuorts from PnGnix said that
the ella River is rising rapidly.
The storm is gradually moving east
ward, leaving & trail OF devastation. In
Colorado railroad traffic IS practically
at a standstil owing 70 the heaviest
snowfall since 1854. Snowslides nave
DESTROYED scores Of buildings and $50
lated many mining camus.
The Mississippi, Arkansas, Ohio and
White rivers are Overlooking their
banks. According TO weather records IN
Arkansas. not for quarter Of q
century has there been So much water
In all streams OF the state. Towns are
being rapidly inundated and isolated.
Minneapolis reports the worst storm
IN score OF years throughout Mime
sofa. Montana and the DakOtas. ano"
/ h piling up twenty feet deep on the
railroad lines, making the operation OF
trains almost impossible. Towns IN
North Dakota have been ten days with
out railroad service and report that
fuel supplies are getting dangerously
low