Two Hundred Killed and 800
Missing in Flood Los Angeles, Mar. 13.
It is estimated that nearly 400 persons have been killed as the result, some reports state, of an earthquake which smashed a 100- feet-high reservoir dam to-day at San Francisquito Canyon, 40 miles north of here, releasing flood of water on the surrounding townships.
The dam controlled part of the city water-supply-Rescuers are rushing to the scene, It is doubted that the disaster was due to an earthquake was felt in the surrounding One hundred and fifty workmen perished when a torrent of water rushed over, a construction camp Kemp. There was only one survivor from the gang of men It is feared that 30-Indians have bear drowned ata ranch which was Popular as a rodeo centre, The pretty valley of San Francis-quite Canyon has been transformed into w wreckage-strewn desert. Thick yellow sand is impeding the feet of the thousands of volunteer workers belonging to every rescue organization in California who are searching for bodies. Here and there dend livestock stick out of the mud, beneath which dozens of victims must be buried.
A few survivors are de edly digging to find their relatives Reuter, Newhall, Cal., Mar, 13.
Reports from mortuaries and hospitals in the arca stricken by the: dam disaster show that nearly 200 bodies have been recovered. A further 800 persons are missing.—Reuter.
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