Show RANCHERS DRIVEN F 0 THEIR HOMES FLOOD OF MUD FROM LASSEN PEAK KILLS STOCK AND devastates HOMES residents of valley warned by govi gov forest ranger take refuge on hillsides Hill sides and escape with their lives redding cal lassen peaks seething caldron stirred perhaps by some mighty convulsion bubbled over early friday and sent a river ot of mud cascading down the mountainside hat creek valley in the eastern part ot of shasta courty county was partly inundated A number oi of farms were in the path of 0 the flood and several houses and considerable livestock were destroyed st royed residents of the valley however fled in time and no lives were lost prom from shortly after midnight until 1 friday when the flow abated the mud river moved thirty miles sweeping away bridges and converting roads into morasses warned by fred seaborn a government forest ranger who galloped from the town of hat creek through the valley ranchers and their families scantily clad took refuge on hillsides hill sides und escaped the tha flood at a place called cassel the stream of volcanic substance branches oft into a field of old lava beds tho the main ma lin stream continuing slowly down the valley |