The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-17
HIGH WATER
RECED|NG IN
CALIFORNIA
)eath List at Twenty-Four
San Diego Warned of
81, Another Gale.
5000 WITHOUT HOMES
Residents in Los Angeles
Area Suffer.

q SAN FFRANcIsCo. Feb. IT,
Southern California, winter play
ground of the nation, crept slowly
out of the grip Of the worst floods
in its history today to take stock OF
it's losses in deaths and property
damage.
While sections of the southland
particularly around San Diego were
still endangered by rushing streams
and continued rainfall, warning OF
another-approachi gale came from
the Government Weather Bureau in
San Francisco.
High lights in the storms toll tc
date included:
At least twenty-four killed in a
mountain snow slide, train wrecks
traffic accidents or drownings.
Property damage in the Los Ange'
les area alone is estimated at more
than one million dollars.
Three thousand persons homeless,
with other residences endangered
and liable to be swept into swollen
streams.
Twenty or more highway and rail-
road bridges washed away.
Railroad service completely dis.
rupted with the exception Of one line
of the Southern Pacific.
The Marine base at San Diego en-
dangered by high waters.
Los Angeles has been swept by al
most seven inches of rain to date.
with more in prospect.
With bridges demolished, high
ways washed out, telephone and tele-
graph lines down and entiressections
of the southland inundateds every
type of communication, with The pos
sible exception of the radiosfis shat
tered and will be crippledsfor days.
Trains HaIted
Efforts to resume trapscpntinental
train travel from Los Angeles, which
has been almost completely at a
standstill, will be made today. Few
trains have entered or departed for
the East in the past twenty-four
hours.
Public utilities suffered enormous
damage, and employees Of light and
power and telephone companies bat
tied with swollen and torrent like
rivers throughout the night and to-
day to restore normal service.
CoJx
and. other organizations have
turned out in full strength and are
administering help to the needy.
Dams in many sections of Los
Angeles County were reaching
capacity, but officials of the county
food control expressed belief that
the peak of the high water had been
reached, and no fear is felt from
that source.
San Diego, last to be hit by the
cloudburst, was the last to emerge.
Marines battled all night to prevent
the dyke protecting the Marine base
from crun1bling. 1t was believed the
crest of the flood had been reached
and fears for the safety of the base
were lessened. The city is complete
ly cut off from the rest of the State
by highway and railroads, only ocean
travel being possible.
Tia Juana, south of the border, Is
isolated by the wasiiout of a high
way bridge, with no prospect Of COM
munication for days:
ROdies SoIIchf
Meanwhile, in Big Creek Canyon.
back Of Fresno, workers sought
more bodies Of dead, caught in the
avalanche which swept down upon
Camp Q of the Southern California
Edison Company. Only five Of the
thirteen known dead have been To-
Gated. and bodies Of the remainder
may not be located Until the SHOWS
melt in the spring.
Rescue crews were cautious, recall
ing that a snow slide which followed
the first great avalanche buried five
workers digging in the SHOWS for
those first trapped.
Fear was expressed that the new
Tiajuana bridge over the Tiajuana
River would be swept away. Sup.
ports at both ends of the bridge went
out shortly before midnight.
Chula Vista, seven miles from San
Diego, has lost its water supply, re-
ports said. Food and water are be.
ing raticned by police.