The Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1861-1862, 1862-01-25

Tho Great California FlOOd..Im-
v,er,yo Destruction of Property
cpc Hundred Cinnamon Reported
Drowned.
Our latest California exchanges are largely
taken up with accounts of the remarkable
food which recently visited that State, caus-
irg an immense destruction OF property. The
Sacramento Union, Of December 12:h, says:
The morning sun yesterday rose bright and
beautiful over orr city, but its beams fell up
on dcsolato and dreary scene. The waters
had subsidized during the night three or four
feet, leaving L street and all the streets nor'h
Of it be Is of mud, strewn with planks from
side walks ard crossings, and amid which
boats and RATS, used in their navigation the
day before, lay helplessly stranded. South
of L rec, however, all the city was still
submerged, and boats and RATS afforded the
only means Of locomotion in them.
The scene in this part of the city, where
the first fury of the food was spent, was one
of dismal devastation. Scores of capsized
houses lay where they had been lodged agalns
trees or other capsized and torpliug dwellings,
great piles of stray lumber and wood were
floating about, and carcasses of drowned cattle,
horses and swine. here and there disfyured
the general wreck, amidst which boats and
RATS were plying industriously, filled with
people in search of their damaged household
effects.
On Ninth street between X and R, were the
bodies of fourteen or fifteen horses, and the
loss of property belonging to families resident
there was especially large. 1t is still difficult
to ascertain tn. loss of life by the flood with
any degree of exactness, owing to the multi
plcity of wild oxaggorations, the still contnu-
ing hustle and confusion, and the great diff
Guilty Of locomcton.
The loss of property by the inundation i:
immense, probably amounting in the aggregate
to one million ofdollars. The principal lossc
are of buildings, household furniture, ant
wood Many merchants on and X street
suffered heavily in the damage done by wet
ting their stock, bu! very generally they sue
ccadcd in piling their more valuable goods o
upper shelves and boxes, out Of tho way {
drench'ng.
The breaks in the R street levee, upo
which the railroad is located, are seven. Th
firss at Fifth street, 100 feet; second, a. Sixth
200 feet; third, near Eighth, $50 feet; foursl
. at Tenth, 60 feet fifth, at Twelfth, 90 fee
sixth at Thirteenth, 100 feet; seventh, At F.
tccnth, 100 feet.
q Numerous breaks were also made in the lt
wee from Sixteenth to Th;rSy-f:sj stree
f These brea&s mus all b. repaired, as wei! {
the trestla bridge built at Seventeenth an
: + ghto2Ath streets, before the car. can ri
= into the city. The Superintendent thinks |
will b, able to make repairs in three or lot
# days, so rs to cnable the cars to run to Il
=. Bsidge,
The reported rapid FILLING of the America
d river at Folsom, gives ground Tor hope TIL
. We have seen the worst of this disastrous foo,
. for if the river should continue to fall, IL
:. lower streets will be gradually drained c
, through tho openings made in the sire
, lcveo.
" The flood was also very severe at Mary
!. vile, and frosho.s also occurred at Grass Va
8 ley, Ofville, and other points, interruptir
@ communication, destroying bridges, sweepir
, of houses, and indcting other injuries. Fro
Long Bar OuSley'5 Grand Fla, and the pl
= ces in thAs r.gon, disastrous Intelligence
received. AT Long Bar, SAYS the Marysvil
Anps11, large number of Cinnamon wei
drowned, some say as many as fifty, and {
Sand Fiat an entire settlmont was browne;
the poor fellows climbing into the sycamor
trees, aud thence being swept of, one by on,
by the rising torrent.
At Ouslay'5 bar, it is reported that nearl
one hundred Cinnamon were drowned in
narrow gorg', where the water rose suddenly
| leaving only one poor Mongolian to tell tn
} tale. The destruction Of bridges was grea
all Of the bridges on the South Yuba ben
carried away, and every bridge on the mai
Yuba going out except the one at Simpsons
All along the Honcut and Feather rivers tn
flood was extensive,
On the 12sh. the food had completely Sub
sided at Marysvill:, and matters were begin
ming to assume their wontcd appearance.