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An Eyewitness Story Of The _ _ Three little Mexican children; one ol peolir in tes i ly. stood outside the Sheriff‘s oftice at Newhall, Cal, in the flood disâ€" Wwict of the Santa Clara Valley last Seantily clad and trembling .h‘ *mumm...w.....'"" h“bl”m'w mwmhhu "“flhflfi&b".ua.h simply; "in the middie of the night The Safest car of them all and Somndest alall whay/" were awakened by a low McLAUGHLIN _â€"~BUICK»A1928_ recognized safety factor, developed to a unique degree of efficiency. fw s ‘The doubleâ€"drop frameâ€"pioneered by Mcâ€" Wbâ€"'-mvldunliwc"*d gravity, as well as maxzimum headroom, ruadâ€" clearance and allâ€"round roadability, tracting fourâ€"wheel brakesâ€"the world‘s safest \ type â€"â€" act instantly, release instantly, ara always ready for any emergency. _ . . . Mimomu-gmzx nâ€"l:b-hy sible to build into a motor m’: Head sixâ€"cylinder engine surpasses all others in Aashing pickâ€"up ahd tremendous power reserveâ€"assuring constant safety in touring, in traffic and on the hills. McLaughlinâ€"Buick is scundly built, thorâ€" oughly dependable, unrivaled in valueâ€"ths safest car of them all to drive and the soundâ€" est of all to buy. W42â€"0â€"200 MAIN STREET Hamilton McLaughlinâ€"Buick ....‘.&anwâ€"hcllu“-? OUT OUR WAY. which followed in the wake of â€"the great St. Francis dam disaster, when 12,000,000,000 gallons of water, sudâ€" a-uumnhuh-‘ two older brothers were swept away." Ing sound; daddy said it was just the wind, but 1 was sure it was water “"";"“-fl'hll'.ln- membered 1. grabbed my to escape the flood. Daddy and Mamma and my And tears filled his brave young eyes as he pictured the scene once GRIMSBY only one of the many With a group of Los Angles newsâ€", papermen, shortly after the flood hat , lnuh.hn-.lhwhh‘fil. privilege of seeing at first hand the havoe wrought by that gigantic water» | serpent. M Mlnh!cuk-lmhhul-‘ dence of the ghastly toll taken by the deadly wavers. ,Ordinarily tflll littic place is a sleepy country village, Fate "made it for a time the local rnhldnmmll‘fi'“l tre of a continentâ€"wide interest. ‘The sheriff‘s office brecame the controlling Whugmdnsku.nfldudl rehabilitation. E; front of it were posted the long lists of dead missing and unidentified: persons. Hour by hour the lists were growing in length , and always befrore them hovered a strangely _ sikent. . m-c!rkhal throng. Deputyâ€"â€"sheriffs hurried to| and from, and :motorcycle officers came and deparited with a maximum side the office. weary clerks thumbed pages ol names while grieving men, and women. stood in agonized silence awaiting news of loved ones. l A dryâ€"eyed main stepped to the desk. Omeullm-umdmh-, sation: "Yes, I havee found my Hittle of speed and a nminimum of words Inâ€" ewanimg NeWs Of 1IOVEG ©HCE T e r Almmmlbmut""‘""‘l" livers bad I One could overhemr scraps of conver?â€"| Big hy hans T sation: "Yes, I havee IMUMIhâ€"'.- ered ine topmes: :1 boy dead." "No, 1 have heard noâ€" even to i J s-:.’ lhlu‘ulhnâ€"hll-‘i.-! Tha; green s ing." It was diffficult to ‘believe that W35 MOW 8 b6a 0° m â€" * °) Mmhm.nfidthlflu"“ â€" flu but of those nearest their heart. Men ang P°PPS® trees, nOthing Now women who had bravely and steadily *"¢king .:. ~ e fought to gain a. livelihood from their| corner of a house or . little farms in thee valley and who had through tweaty Of thirty i. headquarters for the wounded, hungry and sick. . A lomg queue filed by for in the faceâ€"theey took the blow unâ€" coffee and sandtwiches. its restigâ€"place high in the mountains , prevailed pouredin a madiy. rushmg torrent! One he# throgh the San Francisquito Canyon | sound a and bautiful Santa Clara Valley, sixâ€"| child in ty fivemiles to the ocean, carrying| passed « death angdestruction to all before it.| That 1 Iy you canrcalize a wall of foaming| down th water, thirty feet high ana from one| sembled to two miles wide, crashing with irâ€"| them ho resistible force through a river valley | the wor at a mile a minite gait, eweeping beâ€"| there we fote it great steel bridge and huge|pectant. concrete pillars, beautifut ranch homes| _ And « and _ whole sedions . of prosperong| Death. young towns, uprooting thousands of| That 1 iguntic trees and completely submerâ€"| to strike ging valuable crange groves, and ut ; sleeping the same time dealing the hand of ¢*cape. death to hundreds of unfortunate vieâ€"| Sixty»= tims, then you nave a picture of what | homes a um...muma-‘!:d‘ A short distrance down the main street, the Masconic temple had been A sad processionn of ambulances came away to ‘bring their human burdens for identification by waiting relatives. Across the _ road the Red Cross, the of hardship, found What chance ‘fully, one mile Yormer 10€@« | jawe of death @espers | don Heavy concret# plillars were 11â€" . a treeâ€"top above the raging food nded high in the brafiches of a tree. NoA Anind dn rocss be: mM&Wl‘- til their features W ly recogâ€" had spanned the valley hy impoten task. By hundreds they down from the hills ‘ were bitten and tempors ch abated to be replacet that came from the valley as survivors recovered . from the litst _ stumming “â€":‘t‘â€"‘.‘. .";"‘â€"M f e T“..fi ie deeds side by side «W of stare from Hollywood studios uhed their -n:.-m-mgmu the for victims went on and on. â€" Pitiful in twuth were the stories Mm&-nkd‘hhn -u'hnnuo-.‘flfi,-flv luydfi Scores of bodies wete snloubtedly When night came, great white lights £wu o f o the 408 it woe ues "Pw, wedoubtedly | been tossed into a tree by the flood :‘:fi"fludtlnmmhlb-‘!v"“ hdmn&lhflulth- ridge with ; An herioe Santa Paula saved hy impoten. m«llvnulnmnlmw~l kag of st80l,| ies. One girl he snatched from the focper 10¢2â€"| jaws of death as she clung desperately| boicalihotess soon d mmR enbeet o omer their beds only a fiw miles from th¢] a mudâ€"covered sewingâ€"machine per dam. Ih*h-‘,hnmcb‘um-hd‘ldhnvht the hills but the preferred to 7| the huge batter steel bridge, long rows down his fife." of Hattaned trees, and corners of buildâ€" Scores of stories had the samt §*Dâ€"| ing projecting from the mudâ€"â€"these cral theme. Many of the rancher8) ppone relieved the smooth, muddy surâ€" had attempted to escape in thelt MOâ€"| fage, ‘These and the sullen, dwindâ€" tor cars. The head â€" of the family| ying stream of muddy water, all that had rushed the children and wOMCR! yemained of the dashing _ catarset into the sutomobile and barcly maG®| which had created a new Death Vu!â€" Jn¢ sh m t Wrathy m hosk \, an ran to warn a neighbur, the car and its -‘m. ..:“an:‘fi"-mm m'::. -:flâ€"::.'um""'h'h“ an led them into bits and buried them in of the family hesitated, the giant wave [ ! j bore down mercilessly upon them. _ _ , Crucl tricks of fate were Dlay¢d pppmppmpppparraraoagee One rancher who foresaw the danger, loaded his three children into a small automobile. Muc’: danger he ran back to get his t b When he retwned the car had been carried away by the flood with its qln,mhlonthym washed to safety on the hillside. A fourâ€"room â€" house was carried more than a mile without one piece of furniture being disarranged. Even the table lamps were: found upright in their places. > The body of a 12â€"yearâ€"old girl â€"was found in another house which had been borne several miles from its orâ€" iginal .site. Later the remains of a sht:months old baby was also discovâ€" ered in the same house. The parâ€" ents were saved, the mother having stories. ‘One man ‘describéif the awâ€"| ~_~ prppgyons TIRE & RUBB ful scene as h.:' it :u‘zx u-‘ * te MAML on that fatal morning: "You could| _ AMiiiiteaay reoer 1 animals, houses and trees and everyâ€" thing that would float." a When the band of brave: searchers had passed down the valley to pursue their manhunt and when an army of workers had cleared away most of the \debris one could see for miles nothing hok Bm on ~(CBEC D U AR A N T 6S$ Establishing A New Standard Fous and Sties pom $725 «w $219§ T H OE of humans and MM#“%M:Q:“.. care ut _ Oe T AeRT p s ®t Ts wudâ€"mud that squeirhed and sucked flrgstom Degalers wian 4 H Eor Faur Reaery Ne« mwdm.*h-d“ each in its clase, hy the famous Firestone Balloon. All are made by Firestone in ‘s most economical tire plantâ€"an assurance _ _ CHEVROLET SALES & SERVICE GRIMSBY <GARAGE o aaniegs, Enpasprinn t 5 resight on ¢ on a ightâ€"away run, on a curving, steep hill, in waffic .. . or uy dn m e maud) upert an opuien anm in ts t iunas. . .. to stand the strain of Mhdfiubhflzbnh teristic of Durant built Hayesâ€" hodies. .. . . THE ONLY GUMâ€"DIPPED t quauncations awaits you , in Aucemeobiies!‘ We eC Mb.fl*-mfl" tail alfaifa. _ 1% was grewn, it is brownâ€" ‘The _ alfails Nes â€" ftat to the _ carths smooth, regular, as if ap ene, mous brush had been drawn across it. A land of uttes desolation. pervaded by an atmospher> of deep despaft which not ever *h> goiden sunshine could dispell, some doy the valley will bloom again in af. ": pride and m.udnmudnmdp- will till its fertile fieide. _ | Santa Clara Valley. As we came back mjnflnmdnhldi decrepit old man, bowed in grief and tortared by untold agonies. He had (Continued on Page Six) Lig‘s 4s +4