80 DEAD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 453, 5 January 1934, Page 5

80 DEAD

LOS ANGELES FLOODS - Many Bodies Not Recovered! WASHED OUT TO SEA > Press Association.—lonvri-rht. Los Angeles. Jan. 3. With missing people added to thQ bodies recovered the death list resulting to the flooding cf the city and district is now 80. Manv bodies were washed to sea or buried beneath the debris. The rainfall in two days amounted to the Southern Californian average for the whole year. It is estimated it will take a month to repair the city's streets and remove the debris and mud. Describing the rainstorm an earlier message stated: Tragedy rolled through the lowlands about Los Angeles to-day in the form of a deluge, leaving a tragic d«»th toll. More than 12 inches of ;\ain fell in the foothills region in the 24 hours ending at 10 o'clock on Monday morning. The mighty flow of wcter ensu'ns? flooded the valleys pf„the lowlands and drove thousands of people from their hemes. It caught uncounted hundreds cf automobiles and inflicted great pro-po-+v damage. The scene of th? greatest havoc was tv«= nrea in the hills at the back of Olehdate, known as La Crescent, a Montrose r'pfriori which a few weeks ago «"s denuded of tr?»es anc j shrubs by a fire. Walls of water described as 25 foot high crashed down a fairly large valley in the fire-denuded region.