Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-04-19
I've Weeks Later From California.

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Great Flood IN the Sacramento and its
tributaries large number of Houses
s'ospt aaoay.
New YoRK, April u.
The steamer Ell Dorado, with two weeks
later intelligence from California, arrived a,
this port this evening; she left at Aspin
wallis the steamer Sierra Nevada, which
| was TO sail soon.
The steamer United States had arrived
and The Ohio was hourly expected.
he steamer California arrived at Pan.
ANA, from San Francisco, on the 18th oi
March. with the mails.
The Tennessee was to leave San Francis.
Co. on the 18th ult., for Panama, and the
New Orleans on the 10th, for San Juan and
Panama.
The ship Constitution was hourly expect.
ed at Panama.
The Ell Dorado met the steamer New
Orleans so miles south of Cape Hatteras,
and the steamer Empire City, bound to New
Orleans, via Havana.
The FL Dorado was detained twenty
hours at Aspinwall, waiting the mail, and
when it arrived the agent refused 10 deliver
it to her; but it was to come on the Georgia,
via Havana.
The passenger trains are now running on
the Panama Railroad; passengers leave
AspinWall on the arrival of the steamer in
the morning, and arrive at Panama at mid
night the same day.
Much distress prevails among the passen.
gers of the North America at Acapulco !:
most of the females were taken ON board
the steamer Panama, but the balance had
not the means of leaving. and no ship had
been sent to their assistance.
The Pacific stopped at Acapulco, but
declined taking any on board, as she was
already crowded.
The California papers state that the citi-
zens of San Francisco were endea voring to
charter sail vessel to send to their assis-
tance.
The news from California is of the most
distressing character; a most disastrou.
flood had occurred in the Sacramento, and
the cities of Sacramento, Nevada and Ma
rysville were completely overhowed. The
damage done is immense; the loss at Marys-
vile is estimated at $lo0, 900; the embank-
ment at Sacramento had given way, and
several houses foated down the river; at
Marysvills all the stores were submerged,
and large quantity of goods were destroy
ed. At Nevada, two quartz mills, the The
atre, and several houses were swept away.
The bridges at Salmon Falls and Colona
shared the same fate, and it was supposed
every bridge on the South and middle fork
rivers shared the same fate; that the min.
ing country is impossible. The legislative
halls in Sacramento were surrounded BY
water, and the members had to go in boats
to reach them. All the houses on the Ma
rysville and Sacramento road had foated
away, and many of the finest brick build
ings in Sacramento had been rendered un-
tenantable 1t was heped the crops would
not be much injured.
A great many lives were lost, and large
number Of cattle and other live stock. per-
ished.
An expedition was fitting out at San
Francisco, for the newly discovered gold
mines, in Queen Charlotte's Island.
The Indians were still troublesome;
party attacked Clark's train near Sacra-
mento, and in the fight four Indians were
killed. and two others were afterwards cap
tured and hung; but the whites had to-
a bandon their goods.
Immense quantities of snow had fallen
in the neig bborhood of Downesville.
The accounts from the mines was not
favorable.
Stockton and the San Joaquin Valley had
also suffered by foods.
The store ship Lexington arrived at San
Francisco from New York on the l4th of
March, and tha Monumental City from
Panama on the same day. She had to put
in for repairs at an intermediate port-the
passengers were all well.