The Placer herald., 1862-01-25
More of the Flood.

On the Stanislaus river all the bridges are
destroyed.
Nearly the whole town of Knights Ferry
was washed away.
At Two Mile Bar, which is on the Stans
laus, twelve miles above Knights Ferry,
everything was destroyed.
Six Mile Bar, which contained two stores
a blacksmith shop and number Of dwellings,,
was all washed away.
At Boslcks Bar, below Reynolds Ferry
the loss is very heavy, according to the
property there.
Robnson's Ferry contained store, a fer
ry and small number of dwelling houses.
The whole was washed away.
Abbey's Ferry contained ferry boat, a
comfortable frame residence, with stable and
outhouses-aIl lost.
At Central Ferry, the bridge and other
property was stroyed.-Loss, 50 900.
Jacksonville, Tuolumne county, contained
nearly 500 inhabitants. 1t was nearly all
destroyed. There were some twenty China,
men drowned there.
At Woods Creek the damage amounts to
$4,000 At Stevens Bar it is 5000.
At Moccasn Gulch, $4,000. At Blue
Gulch, 800. AT Sullivan's Creek, $75,-
900. At Bear Valley, $40, 900. And other
places in Tuolumne county suffered in pro
portion.
In Calaveras and Amador counties, mat.
ters are Just as bad. The bridges between
Mokelumne Hill and Jackson were washed
away on last Friday-the bridge over the
Calaveras, on the San Andreas and Stockton
road is gone-in fact all the bridges in those
counties have been swept before the angry
flood. Part of Chill Gulch which was very
high, has been swept away. Several build
ings were destroyed at jackson. The big
reservoir at Campo Seco is destroyed.
Green's Mill on the Mokelumne is gone.
A portion Of the town of Poverty Bar is
gone also, and the destruction there is scarce
Iy less than in Tuolumne county.
In Mariposa and Merced so far as heard
from, the flood has been disastrous in the
extreme.
Not bridge or fence has been left upon
the rivers, and stock by thousands have
been engul phed by the current.
There is no communication with the coun
try below Sneing's, but it had been ascer,
tanned that Snelliug's hotel had been washed
away and that the Benton quartz mills had
suffered great in Jury. Quite number of
wagons laden with merchandise en- route for
Mariposa, were completely submerged on the
banks of the Merced.
There has been no communication with
Moke umne Hill for ten days, save by rope.
They had no papers or letters IN all that
tme-hour is worth Sl5 per hundred pounds
there, and provisions are becoming scarce.
At Chile Camp-quile IA considerable mi
ning town-there were bu: fifty barrels Of
Hour left.
From the Feather and Yuba river region,
we learn of orchards, vineyards and farms
q! hundreds of acres forever destroyed by
the many feet deep of sand which has been
deposited upon them; and the free bridge
at Marysville is about the only one left on
those streams.
The following vivid description of the
vast sea of waters between Sacramento and
Marysv.le, is from the appeal: "Passen'
GERS from SACRAMENTO, inform US that the
ASPECT of the valley between this city and
that, distance Of sixty five miles, is desc
late in the extreme, yet partaklng IN the
character of grandeur. From the Sierra
Nevada to the Coas, Range, is apparently
one sheet of yellow ripping water, the far
thest lines Of it taking the blue tint of the
sky. Here and there timber belts protrude
their lines of boughs and partial foliage,
and patches of tules make the semblance OF
land upon the surface of the deluge. The
banks of the Sacramento and Feather can
be traced only by the timber, and occasion
aIy marrow ribbons of land, on which shly-
er closely huddled groups of hump'backed
cattle, and on some of which men from ad
Joining farm houses that stand just above
the water, are shoveling up embankments,
which serve to avert total submergence.
majority of the houses in the valley seem to
be deserted, but few, on the high earth
streaks noticed, are yet tenanted by families,
who stood grouped at the doors SIS the steam
er puffed by them, the waves formed by
her wheel rolling against the slender levee
in front of their refuge as though they
would tear it down. The width of the over
flowed section is of course not so great as it
appears, but it is generally estimated to av-
eraee at least twenty miles. Then 1t must
extend from Tehama, eight miles above
Marysvlle, to Point in the San Joaquin
valley, at least fifty miles south of Stockton.
forming a lake twento miles wide by some
two hun lred and fifty long, covering thous-
ands of acres of cultivated land, and many
more Of pasture land.
RATES OF OCEAN PAssA0E.-The prices
of passage on the steamers OF the iacihc
Steamship Company, through to New YORK
are as follow First cabin, deck room'
S25S 5O-main deckroom, 1898 25; sec'
ond cabin, $3.50 95, and steerage, sl2o 20
To 90 to New York around Cape Horn IN
clipper ship, first cabin costs about $3.50
more or less, according to the aceommoda