Show LARGE FLOCK OF SHEEP DROWNED IN CALIFORNIA Rapid R Rise of Water Vater Catches the Herders Unawares COLUSA Cal Nov ov 12 J. J. J Frates astock a a. astock stock raiser of or Tehama county lost his whole flock of sheep numbering 8 00 O by downing yesterday morning In Pratt Prall Bend near Princeton this count county The rhe flock was In tho the care of herders who failed to notice the water sater was risIng ris- ris Ing rapidly until evening c then thEm the they got the sheep together but the sheep refused t tp drive on account of ot the darkness and water The herders decided to wait walt for tor daylight day day- light but had to desert the sheep anti and nee lice from the rapidly rising water When daybreak came the herders found the whole nock flock had been beet drowned The flock was valued at Another flock fiock of or 1300 owned by bv Mr Is surrounded by wat water r oil on the east alt side There are arc grave s tears fears that this Hock flock will also be lost unless tho thu water Vater commences to recede soon The farmers on the east cast side hide lost 2000 2000 2 23 worth orth of oC Egyptian corn by water The Tho Sacramento river 1 is now twenty twenty- eight feet above e low water anti and nd slowly nisi rising ng |