The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-03-02

fall OF rain; buildings havinl beetstseewn uo"i
by the wind in all paris Of the town. the Vel
Is rising. the lrsre breaking, and an ove,h.~
Threatened, and the whole population Ia c,'ntu-
sian, terror and wa,es The courts all adjourned,
and business # every kind was ra:ir,lv susT~n
pended. Tae papers are II led with details OF
the disaster. by s'usn anj @ I'D The au'h n
ties are usn. ~ rs p ,srihle ef,t t. keep the
iryec in s..rl;r ana save ihs city fran overflow
II 10 gr,.alj feared ,ha 4 the storm d es not
abate. aud RIVER zee, d., Tie levce. strong al -,
will Lresk and nn sh the work o. des.rac; len by
suSmersing he CITY
From tao San J..apuiu Republican we 9 ~
, the following.
Capt, vanu. arrived in Nj. city las, night,
three days fio,n knights ferry He declares
tina, tie reads in the in effisr are Totally inPass
able. The curfcnl in ths Stanislans IL SO y.oit nj
that the ferry - ats are uSe,ass.
The n,ainriy Of the ranchcres hal prepared
for the q .oi .J driving their caule TO the lnuuu
iains.
The h,uses on the 'ulr ranche., OF the river
banks, have all e,n swept away The bottom
linds are implicitly inundated.
All the brad. . and fsrr, .bna's on the ants.
l,us, Tuolnnne, Meiced, and Mi.ipo.a have
been carried away.
The ca,,rru part Of the city of Stockton is
under water, though no fears are entertained IT
u
owing to the back wat"r.
1, j. feared that, when the bsii. 20 gave way
last nigh, va men were on 1t, ons Of whom Is
still mis.:n,
The latest adv:oes from Mnrysrilla are to the
effect tina. the water was six and ah'lf inches
hi CHER than it MAS ever known before, and trom
the quantity of s1ow on the mountains 1t was
feard that the do ID vas not vt at It's height -
A ,eamsier nlnd Downs has been drowned in
the vicinity Of Parks bar, While attempting 10
save Ills hor.es.
The fll,wing rsprt, made by MIR. Ryan, an
express messenger of Adams & Co is publish
ed in the Sacramento Union. If Dec. 81.
On Monday, snow fel. in Navada and Grass
Valley to the y h If three feet On Tuesday,
rain commenced aud pourd in torrents up to the
hour Of depnture Of the stages. The rain
being warm, th,'snow melted very rapidly, aud
Deer Creek had already commenced rising.
On the passage down from Marysville, three
men were sven on The roof of their cabin, near
Hook Farm, Justify calling for boat TO take
them of. The water was within three feet OF
tien.
AT Mich las, in,ny horses and cattle were oh
served wading through the waters which is
every where above the natural bank Of the riv.
et.
The latest news from Downievills is that the
place i. almost entirely deserted.
At Grass Valley, three buildings on one
square, were crushed by the weight Of the
snow.
Mr. r informs US that it must be long time
before We can again hear from any section OF .hr
country above Marysvlle.
TuE WINTER ~ THE MINES Judge Nor
rison, arrived at Sacrament, from Nevadi, pub
fishes a communication relative to the state of
afflrs in that vicinity, from which we extract
the following:
On Tuesday evening party Of eighteen men
arrived ut Navada from Down,ev,lle, in a most
d.plorable condition, half starved and severely
frost bitten. They are a portion Of the able
bodied citizens of that place, some seventy of
whom have already left in consequence OF the
extreme scarcity OF provisions. They report
that the greatest restitution prevails in that place
The seasun is terribly inclement-inll abiiants
buried in snow, and scarcely any provisions in
the market There are but one hundred and
iIty pounds of flour in the place, and of pork,
beans, and meal, abs ,iutely none.
Two miners came into Nevada on Monday for
provisions, from diggngs forty miles above thai
place, where they had been making one hun.
deed dollars per deim to the man During tine
previous week they had been subsis,Ing upon
| raw decr's meat and sleeping upon The snow. A
! 3 nglc companion was left to guard the claim
during ,heir absence.
The next news from the snow dgginys is
| anxiously looked for, as the suffrrngs aud hard
ships endured BY the people there must # ne-
cessty be on the increase, particularly as the
weather. since our las, adyices from that section,
has been more Indictment than during any pre-
vious period Of the present season.
A letter from Downiev,ie, to the California
Express, says:
Affairs are rapidly approaching a crisis. Pro
visions cannot be obtained for any consder ration
There is some lille fur left, which the lucky
possessors retain for private The supply
of beef is nearly exhausted. Nearly all the no
tels are closed, and those that remain open use
barly ~ substitute for f,ur, and on our de-
par.ure little of that was left. meeting was
held the other evening at Craycroff"s to take
into consideration the propriety of able-bodied
men quitting town, leaving what little still re-
manned for the consumption OF the nfirm and
female part Of the community. Consequently
an immense number left.
We copy the following from the same piper !:
Mr.. Mnodey states that no less than 7n0 mi
ners on Churn creek, in The vicinity of his ranch,
were compelled 10 suisist six days on acufns,
being entirely destitute of provisions, and IN
able 70 procure them 10 consequence oftae high
water.
At Down'e's ranch on the north side Of Cow
seven BY nine, tor eight days, during which time
they were obliged to subsst On one scanty meal
IF beans per deim. One Of the number was
Mrs. d who was very i'll. Her husband sue
ceeced in inrding Cow Creek, and reaching For,
Heading, where he underworld to buy such lux
ures as his wife needed, but the officers refused
to sell him any. lie however managed to OBJ
tain from of the soldiers their extra rations
and returned with them to the creek but was un-
able to cross owing to the high water. Fortu-
nately good Samaritan happened along that
way soon after on horseback, who swan the
river and supplied his wife with the necessaries
provide by her husband.
We learn from Mr.. Hckcok, who left Good
years bar on Monday last, that the snow in that
region was -four feet deep, that three men had
been found on the hill this eide, frozen 10 death,
with Hour dashed to their backs who had been
carried by Mr.. II. and his party to the bar and
buried. Hickcok came through in three days
on foot, bringing Sill 900 in treasure. He says
he was on the point Of yielding to extreme ex-
haustion several times. 1t is the intention Of
Mr. II to get the train through to the bar if
possible. Almost the only bread used was
made Of barley which sold It Fifty cents per
pound
Some judgment may be formed Of the sever
ity OF the suffering among the miners from a
stdtcnent winch we noilce IN one OF the papers
that Hour was selling nj two dollars pound
nearly four hundred dollars barrel Fifty to
seventy five cents appears to be about the ordi-
nary price per pound throughout the mining re-
gions.
The Sacramento transcript, of The LIST inst,
remarks:
A report is prevalent in Stockton that some
miners recently attacked train Of wagons in
Mariposa county, aud rifled them ofall the pro.
visions they contained. This says the Journal,
must not be wondered at, nor too strongly con
demned, AS il j. The spur Of starvation that drives
men TO such crimes Their lives depended on
The stake, and men will resort To any extreme to
satisfy the demands Of nature.
From other quarters The record is equally dis
couraging, but more particularly from CaIavrr.
40 county, where the deprivation is most he IT.
rendnx. A gentleman # our acquaintance in
ferns VI that ridin. out a short distance from
town few days since, he met man up TO his
arnpits in water, wading and SWIMMING into
town as best ~ he could, with but one dcIermi.
nation, to have, "somethlng 70 eat