A form of martial law meanwhile was declared at Claremont where 400 men were working desperately on levees in an attempt to check raging waters pouring down San Antonio Canyon. National Guardsmen also were patrolling streets in Anaheim after looters were reported breaking into liquor stores.
Camp Baldy in the Sap Bernardino Mountains reported a critical situation after the collapse of a stone casino, Debris littered the camp, but reports aid not indicate whether there had been\any-fatalities. Flood waters were reported as deep as forty feet in some places near the camp. Between 200 and 300 persons, including fourteen children, were stranded and in need of immediate help.
Amateur radio operators reported that residents of Hinkley and Helen-dale were clinging to house tops in an effort to prevent being washed away after rescue crews had been unable to reach them because of the swift current in the Mojave River,
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