Rain and Snowstorms

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 57, 18 February 1927, Page 5

Rain and Snowstorms

Wild Weather in California TWENTY-FOUR DEAD. PEOPLE DRIVEN FROM HOMES. [By Cable-Prts; tun.—Copyright.] (Received 18, 8.5 a.m.) New York Feb. 17. Following cloudburst through California, five to eight feet of water flooded some of the districts and motor traffic through the country is at a standstill. Six hundred people were driven from their homes at Santa Monica. Steamers are en route from Sun Francisco for San Pedro with perishable freight which the railwavs would not be able to handle for a week. The swollen San Diego river is dammed bv the Santefe railway bridge, which the Government was preparing to dynamite to prevent the valley below from being engaged. There are 2500 homeless at Longbeach. —(A. and N.Z.) VAST PROPERTY DAMAGE. BRIDGES WASHED AWAT. (Received 18, 9.5 .am.) San Franolsoo. Feb. 17. With at least 24 dead and property damage expected to total several million dollars as a result of unprecedented rain and snowstorms in California. Utah. Nevada and Arizona since the beginning of the week, the forecast to-day was for continued rains. The floods forced 5000 residents in Southern California city to flee from their homes and the damage to bridges alone in Los Angeles is 1.000,000 dollars. Communication with San Diego is completely severed except by sea and radio and the wind toppled over, hundreds of oil derricks in the Taft district. The death list, from snow slides near Fresno has reached 13.—(A. and N.Z.)