The Red Cross, caring for 10.000 vefustees in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Riverside, among the hardest hit cities, said the refugee problem was becoming "increasingly alarm-
Weather Bureau officials said rains which preceded the floods were the heaviest in the history of the far west, They said almost eleven Inches of rain hod fallen in four days, at many times assuming eloudburst proportions.
Most. stores were closed here today. but newspapers published sta Long Beach reported that eleven persons had been swept to sea when bridge over the Los Angeles River was washed out. All eleven were believed to have drowned. Ten others perished at Riverside when a dam along the Sano Ana River Durst, Devastation. was spread over an area of 30,000 square miles with the storm area extending from Venture County southwards to Mexico and eastward to San Bernardino.
Weather Bureau reports to-day said the crisis was past although many rivers ordinarily dry were still out of their banks...
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