FLOODS IN CALIFORNIA

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 72, 7 March 1938, Page 3

FLOODS IN CALIFORNIA

:ITH ROLL OF THREE HUNDRED LOS ANGELES, March 4. Willi 14b known dead and the missg listed at !)7, further details may ing the Hood fatalities to in excess 3(10. Many communities are still olated. An area of 30,000 miles in South ' ilifornia is still isolated. Shortive wireless is the only means of ' mnunicatiun. Many sections sent :»■ reports every hour of death and strnction. The waters are now receding, and 1 ie weather is clearing after four 1 iys of *ii wlbursts, but a score of i wns are yet without power and e nnlighted, and some are halfbmerged in the ebbing waters, ridges have been destroyed, and < •ads have been blocked by land- ' ides. Thousands are homeless. SEARCH FOR BODIES. Rescue workers followed the reced- : ? waters searching for bodies in the ; ibris. More than half the listed , *d are missing, their bodies having en washed out to sea and lost. The supply of drinking water has Died at Malibu Beach, the cinema ( tony. Rainwater is being hoarded. ( quarter of Los Angeles was in 'Aness throughout the night. Madeleine Carroll, the English film tress, was rescued from her home ter being marooned for 24 hours. One hundred wealthy tourists, in- ' I( iimr cinema players, are stranded the exclusive Palm Springs resort. , 11 aeroplane is preparing to carry we 4001 b. < i milk, bread, butter and eat and 50ii candles. TERRIFIC hailstorm. terrific hailstorm late this after--1011 struck Upper Arrovaseco, wash- , out miles of roads and leaving the of mountain dwellers doubtful. * komelcs < in the floods throughout mfornia m-e now estimated at M. spectre of disease stalked, in nn K Conn! when the main outfall , ' system, serving a dozen popui’ town,, gave way, threatening '“spread pollution. “s Angeles was cut otf from the , »of the world for several hours , All communications are disced. comities most affected by ' ™"ls nre Los Angeles, Orange, 'orside, San Bernardino, and Venra. canal BREACHED. p 'vatcr broke through a canal ; ’miles north of Fresno, threaten'inundate the city and preln" a new obstacle to the search " 1 ‘ missing airliner which has J® missing since Wednesday. *j® is '4(10 miles north-west of mjyK far removed from the J 1 California flood area. of Los Angeles was ' ” Fwified last evening xVhen II w * ,OOHIe A an< i ra i n began to : Hundreds who had returned to 1 " a H-flooded homes fled back to Municipal auditorium where they refugees for two whole days. H * ate ' r, k'l marooned in isor( . Mnuntaiii communities is not despite attempts by aero,e> to niake contact with the area. "Mill'd towns in the stricken area " badly hit. The dead in Los its a * OD . e tota ' AS. Cinema stuY* rapidly returning to normal