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Show ISslfET FROM -THEIR HOMES FLOOD OF MUD FROM LASSEN PEAK KILLS STOCK AND DEVASTATES HOMES. Residents of Valley, Warned by Government Gov-ernment Forest Ranger, Take Refuge on Hillsides and Escape Es-cape With Their Lives. Redding. Cat Lassen peak's seething seeth-ing caldron, stirred perhaps by some mighty convulsion, bubbled over early Friday and sent a river of mud cascading cas-cading down the mountainside. Hat creek valley, in the eastern part of Shasta county, was partly inundated. A number of farms were in the path of the flood, and several houses and considerable livestock were destroyed.' de-stroyed.' Residents of the valley, however, fled in time, and no lives were lost. From shortly after midnight until 1 o'clock Friday, when the flow abated, the mud river moved thirty miles, sweeping away bridges and converting convert-ing roads into morasses. Warned by Fred Seaborn, a government govern-ment forest ranger, who galloped from the town of Hat Creek through the valley, ranchers and their families, fam-ilies, scantily clad, took refuge on hillsides and escaped the flood. At a place called Cassel the stream of volcanic substance branches off into a field of old lava beds, the main stream continuing slowly down the valley. |