The Red Cross, caring for 10,000 refugees in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Riverside, the hardest among hit cities, said the refugee problem was becoming "increasingly alarming."
"Weather Bureau officials aid rains which preceded the flood: were the heaviest in the history of the f west They said almost eley: inches of rain had fallen in four days, at many times assuming cloudburst proportions.
Most stores were closed here today, but newspapers published as usual.
Long Beach reported that eleven persons had been swept to sea when a bridge over the Los Angeles River was washed out. All eleven were believed to have dre others perished at River: dam along the Santa burst.
Devastation was spread over an area of 30,000 square miles with the storm area extending from Ventura County southwards to Mexico and eastward to San Bernardino.
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