Los Angeles, Mar. 6.
Nine more names were added today to the list of persons who perished during heavy floods in Southern California when four men and the women, haggard from their ordeal, emerged from Tuyunga canyon to report that nine of their companions had died of starvation The group had been without for since last Tuesday. The official deal toll stood at 139 late this evening.
Virtual martial law'was in force throughout the 30000 square mile southern California flood area to-day io facilitate the search for missing bodies and prevent further looting of abandoned premises.
Official death lists put the number dead at 130. Numerous persons were still, missing, but previous fears that the death toll might reach 300 were believed unfounded. Relief workers, reporting that most missing persons were turning up in refugee camps, said they doubted that the number dead would exceed 200 unless further rains sent swollen streams further out of their courses.
National Guardsmen patrolled Anaheim fearing that sight-seers who lined the banks of Lytle Creek, the Santa Ana River, Mill Creek and other areas of San Bernardino County might be looters.
Relief workers reported that 5,551 homes in Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Bernadino counties were uninhabitable because they had been demolished or severely damaged.—United Press.
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