6A The Salt Lake Tribune, Monday, Dec. 16, 1963 | F lood Warning Averted By Associated Press LOS ANGELES, plenty: Dee. of Disaster? warning 15 before a reservoir burst in the Baldwin Hills section of Los Angeles, sending a 30-foot-high | wall of water crashing down a|fa ravine and into a cluste r of |k expensive homes. One _three _ persons were |f —On the night of Oct. 9, while thousands slept in a Valley below,. a landslide roared. into, the artificial lake behind the Vaiont Dam in northeast Italy. A great wave spilled over the dam and tore through eight Villages in the valley. There was. “no warning, disaster took 2 ,300 lives, IN Once an attractive neighborhood, bleak scene early Sunde. "SALE in an area this was the = of southwest Los Ans as workmen began to sae up debits strewn Fy the aeeting flood waters from broken Baldwin Hills stood in the ~-—Associated Press Wirephoto Reservoir, Some buildings which’ ory oy csappeared. GENUINE SALE~ Naugahy de ! 2 YD. eos YD. YD. “Cover Your Own Furniture. ae Upolstery Students Welcome, » ket Us Bid Your Job. = ALSO NYLON FRIEZES— - 5 iB Upholstery Fabrie C * # FEATURING cee 1318 Bae a Continued From page L —35. Apartment buildings with a} or damage—o5. Apartment buildings with tz or damage—41. Total damage Smale _| . 10 potion dollars. _ POLICE IDENTIFIED Ls faced as Mrs. Hattie Sele cet 173, Maurice Clifton Carroll, 60, and Arch Young, 58. All were residents of a 650unit apartment development on low ground below the ruptured reservoir. ‘| HUNDREDS }MADE their way yialek and invalid, ‘and carrying | Sunday through police cordons heart attack victims | to ambu-| around the scene to poke lances. through the debris for valuables Witnesses said a triangleleft behind in their flight.. shaped wedge tore out of the R. C. Elliott, who lived just asphalt-and-concrete lined wall below the dam, told newsmen: of the earth-fill dam and the rewater shot 50 feet into the “THERE’S: JUST a big hole leased air. - » » my house is gone... we have nothing... the swimming ‘pool is all that. is left ... . we climbed the hill above and watched everything go...” Whatever the cause of the dis- Young’s wife was one of the. injured. She was washed out of a second story window at the height of the flood. Young, downstairs at the time, was swept three quarters of a mile away. His body was found in a pile of mud and debris at aster, a leak was discovered in Jefferson Boulevard and Hi- the reservoir wall Saturday at guera Road. 11:15 a.m. and an evacuation warning was issued in minutes. Mrs. Schwartz died when her car was swept into an exMany did not take the warncavation at Rodeo Road and ing seriously, or didn’t hear it. La Cienega Boulevard. - Hundreds were still in the area Her sister, Mrs. Bertha Baker, 7, was pulled from the car by when a 75-foot section of the dam collapsed with the sound of Police Sgt. V. T. Moon. He suffered cuts and bruises trying a cannon shot at 3:38 p.m. Water ‘futilely to reach Mr. Schwartz: gushed from the break at 4:55 before flood: waters swept ae ‘p.m. away. By then it was almost ‘dark and rescue work went on by ee 100, was agit floodlight until dawn Sunday t..at.. th ‘Village|« wed the sor Hion of Rodeo Brea Avenue. Road and La Federal and state officials de-| clared the section a disaster area, qualifying residents for reconstruction loans. Electricity, gas and fclantiond service were cut off over a wide area. Undetermined thousands of persons, warned by reports of a leak in the dam_hours before it burst, fled to spend the night at homes of relatives.or in evacuation centers set up in three high schools. The Southern California Gas. Co. sent a crew of 40 service men on a house-to-house check and reported all broken gas lines had been shut off or capped. Temporary mains were be- ing installed to provide service. Manager Carl Shupp of the company’s metropolitan division said . approximately 110 homes were out of service, but it would be restored long before the damaged homes would be ready for occupancy. During the night Stic ies plucked dozens from. rooftops and high elevations. Policemen and firemen waded chest deep eee the mud rescuing the | CONTRAST, there ae The was HOLLYWOOD and TYPHOON All Sizes and Colors 39 $5 DOWN, $5 MONTHLY PI HRSON'S Sunday, were although destroyed RECORD TREE SCHWINN BIKES ARMREST dead out 75 homes Saturday and |204 1100 others ceuieee. Bat House and ottonwood Mall VALUABLE RECORD COLLECTION. -JACK’S DRUM. and GUITAR ite is ae E. SHOP aor ee