| Show floods and storms in cali california fornia there have been acco ac codin codia ding to reports boms some tremendous storms on the pacific slope since bince the commencement of november more severe I 1 than ever before experienced there since the 1 discovery of gold in that part of the world from the lith to the of november it I 1 rain rained ed or snowed almost constantly the storm extended all over the state the snow in 1 some of the mount moun tinous binous ulous regions tell fell to the depth of from six bix to ten fe etanA the amount of water as measured in places blaies particularly parti in grass valley vailey was waa over fire five inches lashes many cattle cattie catt leare are said to have bave frozen to death thai me express states that on he n night of the ath on the summit ot of the coas coar coast coalt A range between mono lake reservation and round valley a drove of one hundred and eighty head of catte perished in a severe snow storm and other large losses of stock are reported rain and snow continued to fall at intervals I 1 1 during the month of november doing 1 much damage in various places on or about the ath instant the rain com corm fenced pouring down in torrents and con tinted for two or bree days without intermission completely inundating sacramento valley 1 A dispatch from grabs grass Q grass valey of dec 81 8 published in the marysville marksville Marys ville Ez express press says we are now experiencing a most bentoi storm within the last forty eight hours up to tog 6 this evenin evening live we have had bad a tall tail of over eight of rain by measurement sere leveal at bridges 0 on om wolf creek below this place have haye been was washed heil away laiso also aiso Em emerys Ei orys Lorys bridges bridgemon brid gegon on the middle middie yuba the storm torin still co without any an prospect prope ct of abatement 11 A dispatch from Or orbille Oro 1115 illo of f ji khe iha same dt 1 l 1 i i has the follows following n g the river is highe here than at any timo time tin since the spring of 1833 1853 and is within flys flye i feet of high water mark and rising rap randly dir about twenty building q including stable sta bles bies a ai bated on the ba have been sae swept pt away and consid rable damage done to other prof prot erty nie ilie terry ferr bouee bouse when carried car led away away caugh csuhta tad id broke the wire evini binca which time the poes across the bar have haye been beca swept away th thi boom at the saw mill pave pare way rays a d 1 a large q i ianita a of saw lo ios los s were were t I 1 carried off it is 13 e to cross the river in a small boa all the sery ery lery ropes are broken and com at or on with the i 1 country ii 1 entirely cutoff cut off from prom present indication di the water will reach resell breet reet by to morrow mornin beilig bein the highest point ever earr known to have rea clied 41 marysville marksville Marys ville was comp completely ebely ii inundated tb tiia water rising to a greater height than ever bf be fo e known from early ou oll sunday morning till monday night the feather and Y T ba b rivers at the junction of which marysville marksville Marys ville la i situated rose at the rate of on foot an hour on monday morning morning lefore before dailig daylight lit th merchants 11 tel and a block of P ix in which were severa several Is stores tor r 1 I were mashed washed aw away ay I 1 by the flood the express alys atys a lys tys tile he whole co around e was bubmer I 1 ed the steamboat defiance was chartered by tile thie lh i mayor on monday ron tor the relief of the occupants of the diffie different rent ranches ai aad d built buining bui bul lings hing bing ving and she steamed for miles up the elough ami over the plains in every direction reb res brescini dini cini many on her errand of mercy merey three nin rt were taken from a t ee who ver vcr A ere surrounded by some gome twelve feet of ater boiling and ani surging ben ath them women nd helpless hel hei pleis children were talen taken tr fr m second belond story w it dowa a oai an I 1 even from tottering liu 11 n frrda of famil es cs lost everything ever bier thing they possessed pois essed fritock coth clothe ng farn furniture iture houses and were left entirely destitute As the aloot swept over the coti coli without w warning arning 0 amidst the violent sto oto storm r m a and nd botak darkness of night man lives were lost mariy narty small temmen tem tena men such ai were occupied by small farmers and ard miner passed down under the yub i river bridge on ork sunday night and horses horbes catle catie ca tie tle and hogs hogg etc innumerable of ran ranches clies we eia eib swept of all the r stock aid th lh ir ar creus crous crops ruined the loss of property is said to bave bare ireen been armense ir um mense as all the towns on the iter wells were flooded the s eamer eammer G governor governor san pass rass passing in down on oll y left the river at Mary marylil maryv sil sli vii vil as reported nd crossed th tb plain i a direct line to the town of elza eiza el za alt brugh h the water had subs ded some four feet the sacramento t gives a lengthy account of the flod and of the destruction cf life i nd tild property occasioned by it at mento and vicinity vicin licin ity con with a description crip tion of the levet leve a that en irely t th city and then bayst clat at d sk s on sunday november fth the tha american an I 1 0 rivers tad llad lad osen to ta a poi pol it about 18 leet above low water maik mark a point never before attained so 0 o early varly in the season at 7 bout about 8 rn en mo blo day morn in lne ind it was emps announced that the levee had gilem a away ay on the eastern bo boundary andary of the ity aid th that wt t that hat portion of the city wao wab being r pid eidly ly flooded the rhe report was treated by many i at U first as an idle rumor but within an hour aba fact became generally known that an immense volume of water waa was stead from the in diLated during tha the night the water had overflowed nd broken down the leree levee of the ameli AmelL american can river east of the city laundry and had haq flooded a larga arek area of country southward mouths arli arci from that poat A an n immense IM mense volume of water c elected in t the an anie anle angle le north of poverty it dge and ea t of tha ilavee levee which runs run dlag bally from R add kid i seventeenth 0 1 o the vicinity of satte satter fort the water commence to lo couie coule through I 1 the openings of this levee before 6 in th the e morning corning but as he progress of the cur ren rent t was entirely checked by the emba kin nt rit of the ft street railroad such a mass accumulated abed in the angle rid nd aling the line of the eastern levee that at about e abt oc ok ock osk it comm need to flow over the top nearly all along the line from R street and the fort it aid 4 at various p ints into north of the font foft all the streets south of J were flooded by 9 as afar far west as elev nth streets and in ny of them s f p r as N nth nith and tenth streets the tendency of the des current 1 seemed to be r long iong the southern section election of the city the TL street attest levee damming it ax u and prevent ng its ita na ural urai flow towards sut te ville residents resident ot of that section of the tiie cly even when notified by their s eme ems I 1 I 1 unable to real ze ther their danger catl thir thein bouses houses were surrounded by a rapidly currant before 9 many women and children in one story houses were wera enair ly surrounded surround erd eri and hemmed in east of el eh and T twelfth st and in many their calls for were dEtre ds tressin there afre were at brought into ce a D dt he oni ont only drans crans of transporting this clas cias to dry lam iam aa E D ES E R E 1 N NEWS EW T a r borses borges fagoni wagons etc AS ai early it 9 ecock there was wab a ert very ery r general edibal movement I 1 among mong stock ov ners nets an til ili ve ry stable keepers lo 10 0 drie adric out of the city 1101 horbes ees bes EtS mu ell es cattle lo 10 0 s 8 etc all efforts at exit on the east astric wele unavailing and throughout the day lage age a ge quantities or of stock were mere driven across the yoo oyo olo bridge and ami down the levee arid arld towards I 1 S when the tile water tt it 10 ani 11 L 0 clock reached the iov low lov portico of the ci y at V ife and mid sixth sree greets s reels ts iilah of the railroad 04 it depth was so BO great aa a to sc be afloat and over a large number of oe hous bousia B in that fio flom m very many of 0 these hou houses A ifor for ibe the space of from one to two hours boure wo gsinn eida c ul uld id be seen been trod the i lal ial load at d ors and window calling for bo ets its 0 any t 14 af pf transportation 0 the higher portion of the rocity rv w city boats were ot t first scare and for home tome t we it se be med mod as th ugh many live elivea J must inevitably be lost all th boats at ahe i 11 v levec levee were soon brou brough gh into re luls juls itom many f i were vere placed i laced oli w gone golle and 0 hers bets were c r ried to the edge edg of be water waters arid arld were there manned and rendered it service ili in resau women omea and chil chii children drell from froin their perilous positions atthe agthe A tabe i tle the waier water u aier aien arrived at the vicinity of th the P corner of S ath nd dd al streets many dm aba irs were driven from froin their homes and A place ace ot of shelter the doors of fe ete pa sv ilion were era ere leckt locked d and thee the e was no one with keys kes C L knowles know ies iea with an vax a x burst burnt open one of the doors of be upper s It dry arid and theu then ant pub a no notice tice ilce inviting families sto W take tak tale take e me wit withie hil hii the invitation was ault voit vil vii away avay during the d y he ilow liow ll 11 ad aid Benc bene S society 0 ci c t U I 1 in the widin building t bom hom to two hundred person men and children hav n ng kept four boats X constantly brinz bring bringing off from the hooded district thoe e who were ere without t the giveans gi or of transi Orta tiou this number was I 1 eted diab b a c uni ina uld on beisig being prepared for the epply ply of soup and furnished wit with wilh it blankets I 1 h to fo I 1 dieg I 1 the water continued to blk up mp from the R street levee and flood tn I 1 turn M L K arid and J str ets eta soon a atter after f ter mone pone lie these streets were from two 0 siber hiir feet under water the inmates of one atory tory pory residence s generally deserted them ile lle those who occue ed two story buildings buil dingi le e aged them elves actively in carrying into rt tse the second story all movable things at about eleven oclo ocio cV in the forenoon the bain gan gang under the direction of long and dreman Ur ernan cut an opening 2 in the street levee between fifth and six sixth th streets mien ahen the water first commenced to h the opening towards sutterville nutterville Sult erville wa wab was s a rall rali from the city side of from echt e to ten vil eil teet reet it rushed through in a perfect tor rent almost equaling in volume and violence the moth mo th of the amer amar can river on the occa illon ilion filon of a sudden freshet in it t when the sacra i mento is low A large number of houses in che imme late vicinity had been fairly afloat afi api t some time and the discharge through the veining in the railroad rail rall oad toad was kasuch tha from twenty to twenty five 0 these bouses houses man many manx through fot thew theo two stories high were swept through j and dashed to f fra girenti as they passed on their way towar s sutterville nutterville erville several openings beside that was cut by V t e chain gang vang were created by the natu ra action of the water and the great dis c harge charge through them all re ie in lowering 7 11 t tide thre vitter bitter water on oll J and K streets at three or four about a foo too later ili in the evening when the equilibrium of water on each side aloof of R street cstreet was established the back water up all p rations of the city and attal attai attained ned la l a higher p int than that cf f the earlier period of th ane iday y at t nine on monday even aven fc wt i nghe the siness business DL office on the first goor floor of th the f isa isk lon don building was flooded by an inch or two i fe daning wring the greater part hart of tle tie day the of the c city ty were ere I 1 s reet diver 01 vcr ver front the R street et levee and poverty bridge 19 I 1 3 reet and the ivee levee were crowded inu the daywitt day with live stock which was ia ia taken thre for safety in the evenia evening many k boats were occupied in taking passengers to W abd and from the very few restaurants and hotels A abich which 1 were able to fur furnish nish rne ine meals ils to custo custom in erb era the mot of them had their fires gul wui shed and were therefore unable to do their aiau 1 co king arter after describing many ot of the distressing scenes caused by b y the tremendous flood of 1 lifter yifter waters 1 pater kater the gays hays that the flood came Z with the tile rapidity of a hurricane and precipe stated 4 td itself without any warning upon the who were wholly unprepared the scenes witnessed and the suffering suge BuGe su frering rings s experienced C naf ngi are said to have been ind indescribable es crib able abie and i T labe thess losa of property properly y beyond computation t the following from that th a la er cr date dale f att will ill lil give glye ave lye 0 oneidia one idea of the extein and violence of yie yil IlE flotd Aitt anac AHac ac from the interior unit in depre the ahe late freshet as the moat fearful j zv ach hag hag has visited the state since its occupy 1106 tion by american the floods have been higher and in re destructive on the yuba tuba and i amerlean american revers reverb and their bran brah branches ches than ever a before experienced the water has in many stae loal local io al ties reached elevations confided conf con hlen hien cally aupp eu ose obe obed d to le ie far above danger from lilb tater ater destroyed imm nse amounts of property ty and in some instances life has boen beu ben sacrificed when persons were so 0 bure sure were yvere beyond danger as to remain until too tto lala lawty td escape the loss losa of bf stock in the upper ailley of the sacramento Sacrament op and on the feather american rivers has been fearfully t of course no estimate sti mate can yette 1 1 1 s it ar abay i ny f faarae farae arinders ra fa bave baye ve veen vein L tripped stripped of et everything except their land million ions lons of feet of lumber and hundreds of et thousands of cords corda of wood ani ana in many instances houses and barns have been swept away by the resist ess ebs current between this city and suf sul houses and nd furniture including bedsteads beds mattresses boreas looking glasses chairs sofas botas and kitchen fuini fuin ure of al all ali orts borts are lodged io i one indiscriminate crim liate mass on land a little higher than that which surrounds us bees and beehives may also be put into the list for hundred it if not thousands of them have been sacrificed by the inundation rhe lle destruction of ef horses horbes cows hoss hogs poultry etc tic tc has been fearful tile the real loss to the city can never be known I 1 for a great portion is in that kind of property which adds to family comforts but which can I 1 never be estimated upon the industrious poor the in n who have labored for years to apu pu chase and adorn homesteads for their fam lies the loss is crushing the high title tide of the american appears to have been precipitated ino the valley in one creat areat wave as it if produced by the sudden bursting of th wals wais of one immense reservoir scarcely a bridge i n its branches is left standing at auburn the north fork roe |
