FIRE AND GALE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13090, 25 October 1935, Page 5

FIRE AND GALE.

SECOND EDITION

DEVASTATION IN CALIFORNIA. ENORMOUS DAMAGE. Lnited Press Assn.—By Klecuic 1 eiegra ph—Copy ngh t. LO»> ANGELES, October 23. Fire and gale wrought damage estimated at more than 4,UUU,')OO dollars in Southern California. No deaths are reported, but it is not known whether everyone is accounted lor. Jn the area hundreds of cattle are believed to have perished.

An emergency caii v. as made lor gas masks to be used in an attempt to rescue 20 cowboys front Corral Canyon oi Malibu area, a Leach resort. Movie star cowboys are reported to be struggling to save livestock. A later report stated that the ecrivboys are safe.

1* our bush fires raged through the outlying areas and even licked tho fringes of the suburb?.

1-or a time Los Angeles harbour wqs grey with dust whipped up by winds ot 45 to 50 miles an hour. In one case the wind reached 75 miles an hour. Ships sto/d out to sea for several hours rather than venture in the harbour.

More than 200 of the 2000 men fighting the flames have been treated lor injuries. Sand Ltsheil in. from the desert is threatening to blocx the trans-con-tinental rail service over Cajon pass, l'he L moil Pacific crew shovelled to keep the t lacks clear. Three highways are closed because of fires. The most destructive blaze was in tlie foothill regions below Mount Lowe and Mount Wilson. Two score residents in the fashionable foothills districts and canyons from Altadena to Flint Ridge where millionaires dwell were burned. The sanitorium at Lavina was burned a few minutes iifter more than a. hundred patients were taken to safety. At Pasadena and Los Angeles the fire was cheeked after eleven hours. A second fire in tlie Malibu district is raging and out of control through the 100.001 acres of Malibu Beach mountain. The home of Charles Farrell, the movie actor, was destroyed. Charles (“Chic”) Sale, tlie movie actor, his wife an! two sons word marooned in a circle of flaming brush. They wrapped coats about their heads and plunged through tli3> fire to safety. A third fire raged in the orange country, a fourth to the north :-n Kagel canyon, where orchards suffered and oil derricks toppled.