CLOUD BURST
IN CALIFORNIA HEAVY DEATH ROLL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph- -Copyright.) VANCOUVER, October 1. A message from Baker’s Field, California, states : From forty to fortyfive persons ai’e estimated to be dead, according to meagre reports received late to-day from the Tehachapi Pa-s region, which was struck by a terrific cloud burst on Friday night. A further message from Baker’s Field states that twelve bodies, including those of an engineer and fireman, were recovered from the wreckage of six cars and a locomotive of a Southern Pacific freight train which plunged through a trestle. Sixty people 'are reported to have been on the train. Other dead bodies, estimated at thirty, ar© ‘visible in the water. The victims are believed to have been itinerants. A deluge, overflowed the canyons and streams, and wrecked another freight train. 'The deluge hurled water forty-five feet high down the page. The floods washed out nine bridges and (flooded at least half a dozen villages.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1932, Page 5
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