Show i I EVERY STREET SHEET STREETA i A SMALL R RIVER I Water from One to Six Feet Deep All Over the Town of Stockton Cal Cat DAMAGE WILL BE IMMENSE WHOLE COUNTRY ADJACENT INUNDATED IN INUNDATED INUNDATED UNDATED Kt n i Ial ai March Water Ater ta hi run runt t I ring rh hi Ugh the th streets street of this city like Jike 1 I In Tn sense places it i it is s six ix feet f t td dm d p wink in others It varies aries from on onto one oneto oneto to f ft t the latter being the mean aung All buel Is e suspended as asmo asi i 1 mo grit of of the business houses bou s are flooded I and n t I people in many man parts of the city elt i rf afraid afra 1 tn to leave leAe their t r hom home No por porI I inn nt of Hi th town escaped Main 1810 the prin mal ir ip I h inn s street of the city Is th the high and 4 1 even een here re tn the water a at av V t n a foot in depth All the iW lal an and many othe 0 f th tM first t floors of ih the houses houe ho were submerged and the alone I will into 11 th the in I in city run hundreds of r thousands of oC dollars Worst Is Over Tl Th flood 1001 started at about 3 yea ves vesT T afternoon and the h point i a l at midnight since inN when it ft hat has rr slightly lightly and It is believed the wor worst wort t i is over x r Th TM Ky sky sk h I still overcast with lIh o o I rational showers shower and should an ah oth T storm at Rt this thi time conditions will ill he tie more mare serious hll The th best st residential portion of the hf Tit rit I is under ender water few Cew of the houses M n hen n immersed immer ed as high as all the tIie first flir fl r and in m most eases CA they th are s several v ral feet th h n the street level and ind street car ear traffic is II at a standstill and this th morning conditions are urh such that nobody can venture to say when the city will be Whole Country Inundated The telephone system Is II badly crippled and lId ah all the long loner 6 lines are out of ot ion thereby cutting off all aU news from outlying districts dt trl the country for Cor miles on all aU sides of Stockton being inundated Mot Most of the gaw mains are full of o water and the tro tr gas Kalil supply is 18 suspended Th ThO Southern Pacific railroad tracks running through the city from north to soul IOUI youth were werf caught broadside e and the readied and rails have been twisted on out of bv by b the force Corce of the raging wa wate te It wilt will ill require many days das of work to 0 put rut the track in condition for Cor traffic after the water subsides The Santa SantaFe Ff rf railroad fared no better and amI no rail rall railroad road rad communication wilt will be had with the outside ou world worM for Cor at least leapt a week It is feared that In the southwestern part of the th city which is low and the residence TP section of many laboring men o othe of the th poorer classes cla many have been drowned frowned The police patrol took many rat out ut last night and the court house building build building buildIng ing was a place of refuge for dozens No Longer a Joke There re can NUl be bo no exaggeration 1 of condi conditions lions ions here At first it was little more than a Joke hut but when the water ater ed td to rise ril and alO submerge the entire city the hI stern reality of o the thing began to be realised I Outside of If a 1 man who ho fell Cell into a hole hol last night and another who was Killed by bya a train while guarding a railroad bridge there are no authenticated reports of fa Ca fatalities fatalities The Till water has been receding all morn nn RI though h slowly It is feared however OOl er that ih if additional heavy rains in the moun ans ins will 1111 send t another freshet down this WT Var and anti more high water is looked 1 for Cor forThe CorThe The afternoon papers are not trying to toft tot ft t out their regular editions as their plants are crippled and the men cannot wt Litt to work |