Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-02-17
"a Die, Scores Injured;
Property Damage Huge
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persons lost their lives III lFdlllc etScl-
dents caused by the storm in Los An
4 geles. Forty-five oil derricks were
wrecked and damage estimated at
$500 suffered by oil companies as
the result of the heavy winds IN the
vicinity of Maricopa, Fellows and TAFT
yesterday, while second hurricane
threatened today. Numerous OIL COM
/ panies could not be reached because
I of impossible roads and stricken COM
munications and it is believed that the
final reports will show at least 90 der
ricks blown over
Advices from San Pedro said the Pa
cific Steamship company ship Admiral
1 Evans would, leave today for San Diego
| to deliver perishable fooG products
consigned to the latter city. The action
was requested by express and trucking
companies because rail and highway
4 communication is cut off by Wasned
| out roads and bridges. Approximately
20 blocks of the residence section OF
Anaheim and three times this area IN
Fullerton were under water today.
Trouble was added when $4,000 barrels
! of oil from an undermined tank at At
wood collapsed, sending the oil across
the water to damage residences ana
/ orange groves.
1 The Union Pacific railroad announc-
ed that all of it's lines out of Los
Angeles were blocked at various
points by water, washouts and mud.
Culverts were lashed out at Ventura
and Santa Barbara. At San Fernando
! the Southern Pacific tracks were bur-
/ led under water, and collapse of
trestle between the former city and
Burbanks blocked the inland route
northward, leaving that railway
coast route to San Francisco as the
only steam line outlet from Los An
/ geles.
| Many residents of Laurel Canyon,
west of Hollywood, prepared to va
/ cate their homes as heavy down
/ pour of rain threatened new land
i slides.
/ Seven hundred miles to the north
| the same conditions existed, although
the rainfall was less tremendous.
/ Eureka buffeted by a southwesterly
gale could get no information out
| over the Western Union wires for
hours. More than two inches of rain
| fell in Chico, in the upper Sacra-
mento valley, during the storm Pc
riod.
/ Coastwise shipping had its troubles
! although only minor damages were
reported The bar pilot boat Ad-
veress was driven into shore from off
the bar today after the gale had
torn away her foremast and por-
| tion of her bow. The Matson liner
Manoa, although escaping the brunt
of the storm, was hit broadside by
| one giant comber that smashed in
two starboard stateroom doors and
flooded other staterooms as WELL
The wave cracked one of the steel
stanchions supporting the boat deck.
Southern Pacific rail traffic be-
| tween san Francisco and Portland
was tied up three hours today by
landslide at Methefon, northern Cali
fornia, while the same company re-
ported that an aviator put it's wire
communications between Pasadena
and Los Angeles out of communica-
ton.
| High winds continued today, San
Pedro reporting a 60-mile gale in
addition to continued heavy DOWN
pours.
The wind at Point Reyes, north of
/ San Francisco, measured rs miles IN
/ a straight offshore line today, while
at the Concord airmail airport across
the bay from here 5S-miler caused
mail movements to cease.
The Western Union reported that
! all of it's southern California COM
munications were crippled and that
east of Los Angeles, also badly hit.
/ Out of San Francisco it was impos-
sible for a time to reach points as
| close as San Rafael and Santa Rosa,
/ only a few miles away. Richmond, in
Contra Costa county, was thrown into
darkness and cut off from eommuni-
cation when six blocks of poles crash
/ ed down during the night. A truck
| containing two men was caught un-
i der pole, badly injuring the pair.
Every main California highway,
with the exception of the Pacific
highway, was blocked.
The United States weather bureau
/ said that the end was not yet in
sight, although clearing weather
| might be expected in a day or so
/ Another great disturbance well form
ed and of almost incalcu1able extent
was rolling in from point between
here and Honolulu and there We're
/ indications of still another tremend-
Gus storm behind it.
FRESNO. Calf, Feb. 16 P-The
bodies of George b. Holik, of Burt.
Mich; w. j. Harvey, of Philadelphia,
and Fred Albert of Fresno, three of
the known dead in the double snow
slide disaster yesterday at the South
ern California Edison camp at Big
Creek arrived in Fresno this after,
noon. . y
They are being held pending word
! from relatives.
While reports of survivors reach
ing Fresno late today indicated that
the death list might be increased to
i 1S, the official death list as received
here this afternoon stood at 10, J.
C. Pattison electrician foreman, who
was reported dead last night, still
being alive today