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FIRE DAMAGE OF ,000,000 Distastrous Flames Sweep Through Southern California Destroying Property Over a Large Area. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Nov. 24. A loss of at least ,000,000 is the estimate of the disastrous fire which swept through Southern California last night. The 50,000 Arrowhead-Springs Hotel, which stood in the path of the flames, was virtually destroyed. The famous comedy stars, the Ritz Bros, were among the forty guests routed from the hotel. Whipped by high winds, the fire broke out almost simultaneously in the tinder dry mountains in seven places from Ventura, sixty miles north of Los Angeles, to San Bernardino, sixty-five miles to the east of the city, the ranges running down the coast from Ventura south to Los Angeles, then cutting east toward the Mbjave and Colorado deserts. The centers of the greatest loss were the Santa Monica Mountains and the San Bernardino Mountains. One death was indirectly attributed to the Santa Monica blaze, which scourged Topan-ga, Santa Ynez, Los Flores and Temescal canyons. Mrs. Louis Silvers, wife of the music director of Twentieth Century-Fox Film studio, was found dead at her home. Nerve-worn by the menacing nearness of flames during the night, she apparently took an overdose of sleeping powder. Burning some 8,000 acres, the greatest loss in the history of Los Angeles County, the conflagration destroyed 350 homes and cabins at it swept from mountain crests to the Pacific strand across watershed untouched by fire for a quarter century.
