Floods in California
TRAFFIC ENTIRELY SUSPENDED. HEAVY DAMAGE TO ORANGE GROVES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Now York, February li). A tropical downpour turned the streets of southern California!! towns into racing millgtreains. Railroad and street traffic is completely at a standstill. Eight inches of rain fell in"."ill hours. There is 10ft of water in the .streets of Santa Barbara. The fire companies are employed in pumping out the basements of the flooded buildings. There is slight loss of life and heavy damage to orange groves. An automobile touring party was caught when a retaining wall collapsed, releasing sft of flood water. The ear was swept away, and the occupants took refuge in trees on the roadside. Ropes slung out from a neighboring house saved them.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19140221.2.27
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 21 February 1914, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
124Floods in California Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 21 February 1914, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in