WALL OF WATER

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3848, 3 October 1932, Page 6

WALL OF WATER

Cloudbursts in America MUCH LOSS OF LIFE NARROW CANYON FLOODED ITRAINfcS OVERCROWDED (Aust. and N.Z. Cable.j Lus Angeles, October 1. Forty or more persons are believed to be drowned as the result, of a forty-foot wall of water sweeping down tlie narrow Tehad’-iapi Canyon alter cloudbui -t. s iu the mountainous region south-east of' Baker’s Field Twenty-seven bodies already h;i v. been recovered. Fifteen bridges and long section s of the track- of two railroads, including a passenger station were swept away. A goods trail woe overwhelmed in t,'u> flood waitersA further message from Baker's Field states that 12 bodies- including those of the engineer and fireman. have been recovered from the wreckage of six rails and a, locomotive of a. Southern Pacific freight train which plunged lb rouge a bridge. It is believed that 60 people were on the train. Other liodky, cstifated at o*. arc visible in t'.io water. Tile victim* aro believed itinerants.

Tli 0 deluge overflowed the canyon’, : ;Lreams, a.a t hurled a wall of watci of -15 feet high down the pass. Nino bridges have been wasted away and at least half a dozen villager were tlo, nie-i.

A second freight train is believed to have been wrecked.