CALIFORNIAN DELUGE.

Grey River Argus, 19 February 1927, Page 5

CALIFORNIAN DELUGE.

MANY KILLED. Enormous Damage. NEW YOKE. 1 ruary Ifi. Following the eloubimi ,-ts through California, five to eight i t ..f water flooded some district- ■ traffic through the country i - : Six hundred people v. n , :1 ; their homes at Santa Mo v Steamers are en route t:om S:.n I'rnn cisco for San Pedro, v.iiii - :isha- i fleight, which the railways wi.l not : able to Handle for weeks. The swollen San Diego River is ,b. : pied by the Saute Fe Railway Bi. .. which the Government is preparing t dynamite, to prevent the valley below being engulfed. Twenty-Live hnndretl are homeless at Longbeaeh. ♦ LATER. At least twenty-four arc dead, and the property damage is expected l.i total several millions, as the tesult of nnuprecedented rains and snowstorms in California, Utah, Nevada and Arizona, since the beginning of the week. The forecast today was of continued rains. Floods forced five thousand residents in southern Californian cities to flee from their homes. Damage to bridges alone in Los Angeles is a million dollars.

Communication with San Diego is completely severed, except by sea and radio. The wind toppled hundreds of oil derricks in the Tait district. Th" death list from snow' st. ies near Fresno reached thirteen. EASTERN U.S.A. EEPOGGED. SHIPPING SUFFERS. NEW YORK. February 17. Unusually dense fog covered the north eastern coast of the United States from northern New Jersey to Boston. Shipping in New York harbour is disrupted, the fog being so thick that the observers at the Ambrose Lighthouse are unable to see even the silhouettes of four ocean liners which al’ due. It is presumed that they have dropped anchors in the outskirts. Many river vessels nave anchored and the New York ferries are either greatly delayed, or not operating. One ferry boat operating between Brooklyn and New York touched a barge, causing intense excitement among the 309 passengers, but there were no injuries. Another ferry boat was swept up the river by the tide and narrowly averted crashing into the sea wall. TORNADO KILLS ELEVEN PEOPLE . NEW YORK, Feb. 18. A message from Pleasant .Hill, Louissiana, reports that eleven are dead as the result of a tornado.