The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1860-1863, 1862-01-23
The California Flood.

Califorpia has been visited by food,
or series OF floods, almost unequaled in
deslructiveness. A dispatch from San
Francisco, gives some iacts which indi
cate it's extent. Accounts by mail have
also.been received.
A correspondent Of the New York
Tribune estimates the damage at $40, 900
600. The range Of the flood was from
Sacramento uorthward to the Columbia
river, and Nevada and Oregon suffered in
common with the Golden State. All the
streams rose, inundatiug towns, sweeping
away mills, dams, fumes, houses, de-.
and causing great loss of life. Nearly
one thousand Chinese are said to have
been drowned in different localities. All
Of Sacramento, save part Of a single street;
parts Of Marysvillc, Auburn, Napa, So
nora Santa Rosa, and many smaller towns
we're overhowed. On the 9Th of Novem-
ber the rainy season opened and for near
ly four weeks the rain fell almost inces.
sanity. A Grass Valley paper states the
fall of rain .here at che incredible amount
of nine inches in thirty six hours. The
north fork of the American river rose
fifty. five feet. while other streams nearly
euualed this figure. Sacramento was the
heaviest sufferer, as was the case in sew
eral previous foods. This city stands al
the junction of the American and Sacra-
mento rivers, in a wide, fat valley. The
loss here is S2.0OO,O0O The city has
been nearly ruined. its, debt previous tc
the food being enormous, and the people
being terribly depressed Subscriptions
for the rehefof the destitute have beer
made San Francisco leading off will
$50, 900. Near Auburn thirty miles .
fences we're Aosted off. At Grass Valley
FIVE hundred quartz miners have beer
thrown out Of work by tho flooding Of thu
mines. On Feather river millions Of fee
Of lumber we're lost. On Trinity rive
the loso is estimated at $3.50, 1000; cleal
sweep Of all the improvements along tha
stream was made. The accounts from
+ Washoe, from Oregon, ETC., are equall
I disastrous The papers also have man
hair breadth escapes. among which W
observe tina. the wife Of a State Senate
, was rescued by her husband carrying he
: some distance on his back, he wadin
Il waist deep in torrent. Among othe
cbarao teristic anecdotes of the disaste
It are the following amusing stories:
a "At one Of our hotels, yesterday morn
n ing, boarder called for mackerel fc
breakfast, with the remark i am dafne
"a sure they were not drowned by the AooC
!. but l don't feel so sure about beef an
N pork He had been around town consiC
Of erably, and had seen SO many browne
cattle and hogs lying around, that b
:. concluded to be on the safe side.
80 80 "How high did the water get on you
- door?" we inquired of resident of or
=, Of the more favored localities Of the city
:. :. Just high enough to take the starch OF
=, = of my shirt collarp" said he. But, as
~ ~ anxious to maintain the good standing
y real estate in his neighborhood, he &C
>. ded: But then. you know, am ver
: short man." a.nH be
"Some one was banteTing citizen eau
a field about the magnificent waterscAI
which his rancho presented, to which
=" promptly responded: Il wouldn't give
rn copper for man that couldn'thsys . la
Of his own"