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Show i Callloruia News Pars. San Franoisco, 21. No sessions of the stock boards to-morrow. The banks will clone and business will be partially suspended. The town of Washington, 500 inhabitants, in-habitants, opposite Sacramento, is almost completely inundated. Half of the people are made homeless. Many houses are wrecked and swept awy. No lives have been lost, but there have been many narrow escapes. es-capes. The total crevasses in Yolo county exceed eix miles in extent and are hourly increaeine. The Sacramento levees are Bound and carefully guarded. No trains will be run on the Vallejo line till further orders. The track is badly washed and covered with water for miles. The Sacramento nvtr is falling. Travel is impeded on the Southern Pacific by wiiBhouta between Mohave and Sumner. The weather is pleasant today, with some prospect of a continuance. The race at Sacramento between "Jake" and "Mollie McOarty" has been postponed till March 1st. Extensive overflows, with considerable consider-able damage, are reported in Colusa county, but the details have not yet come to hand. In the election to fill vacancies in the state senate and assembly in Saufa Clara county, the unofficial returns from all the precincts abowa that the taxpayers have elected Boring to the senate by 4-1 majority. The working-men working-men elect Clark, assemblyman, by 134 majority. - The Hood in Tulle county, on the Sacramento river, is reported to cover a tract of country filteen to twenty miles long and an average of eight wide, with a depth ot water lour to six leet. Yesterday's gale laahed this lake into fury. Dwellings and outbuildings out-buildings are reported wrecked and awept aViiy. No loss of life ia report-2d, report-2d, moat ol the residents being provided pro-vided with boata ready for the emer-sency. |