SCENES OF DESOLATION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 82, 5 March 1938, Page 9

SCENES OF DESOLATION.

MANY DEAD AND MISSING. Received March 5, 10.15 a.m. LOS ANGELES, March 4. At least 175 at present are dead and missing. Thirty thousand square miles _of land in South California is still isolated. Short-wave wireless, the only means of communication in many sections, hourly has brought new reports of death and obstruction. The waters are receding and tho weather is dealing after four days of cloudbursts, hut a score of towns are yet without power and unlighted, and some are half-submerged in the ebbing waters. Bridges and roads are blocked by landslides. A thousand homeless and rescue workers followed the receding waters searching for bodies in the debris. More than half the listed dead and missing bodies have been washed out to sea and lost. ’PLANES DROP FOOD. Aeroplanes are dropping food in some areas. The drinking water failed at the Maliu Beach cinema colony, and rain water is being hoarded. A quarter of Los Angeles has been in darkness throughout the night. Miss Madeleine Carroll, the English film actress, has been rescued from her home, after being marooned for 24 hours.

A hundred wealthy tourists, including cinema players, are stranded at the exclusive Palm Springs resort. An aeroplane has been prepared to carry there 4001 b. of. milk, bread, butter and meat and 500. candles.