The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-01-25

California has been visited by flood or
ser;es of fl ,ods. almost uneq ualed in desruc-
t;xeness. A dispatch from San Francisco,
~ h;,h will be found in our telegraph col.
.r,ns gives some facts which indicate its
extent Accounts by mail have also been
Z received.
A correspondent OF inc New York Trib-
une est;.,.tee damage at Sic, 600, 600.
] The ssnge Of the fl pod was from Sacramento
! north ward to the Columbia river. and Ma
vada and Oregon suffered in common with
The Gok3ea SiAi0.- All tho streams rosa.
inundat'ng towns. sweeping away miIls.
dams. fumes. houses. DC. aud causing great
loss of ii e. Nearly one thousand Chinese
are said to have been drowned in different
iocaiities- All of Sacramento. save part Of
single street; parts of Marysviile, Auburn.
Napa. Sonora. Santa Rosa, and MANY small.
Ter towns, were aver flowed. O. the 9Th of
November the RAINY season opened, and for
nearly four weeks the r~in cell almost inces.
sanity. A Grass Valley paper ,tates the fall
ol rain there at the incredible amount Of
nine inches in thirty six houn. -he q. n
fork IF the American river rose filty.l ,e.> t
while other streams nearly equ,led thu ig-
ure. Sacramento was the heaviest sufferer.
a. was the case in several previsus foods.
This city stands at the junction of the Am
valley. The loss here is S2.e00.o0c. Tho
city has been nearly ruined. its deb pre-
vious to the flood being enormous. and the
people being terribly depressed. Subscrip-
lions for the relief Of the destitute haze been
made. San Francisco leading of with s30.-
OCO. Near Auburn thirty miles OF fences
were foated off. At Grass Valley FIVE hua-
dred quartz miners have been thrown Qua
Of work by the flooding Of the mines. On
Feather river millions of feet OF lumber
were lost. On Trinity river the loss is esti-
mated at S15o.OO0 a clean sweep of all the
improvements along that stream was made.
The accounts from Washoe, from Oregon,
etc, are equally disastrous. The papers
also have many reports Of hair-breadth es-
capes, among which we observe that tha
wife Of State Senator was rescued BY her
husband carrying her some distance on his
back, he wadlng waist deep in . torrent.
Among other characteristic anecdotes Of the
disaster are the following amusing ssosies:
..At one Of our hotels. yesterday morn
ing, boarder called for mackerel for break
last, with the remark: 4 am darned sure
they were not drowned by the hood, but>x
don't feel so sure about beef and poIk ne
had been around town considerably nso
seen 50 many drowned cattle @do no8A ~
ing around, that he conclr-1eo % % On 'os
safe side. q.
".How high dis the water get on your
aoor9 we inquir>d OF . resoen' On one o.
the more fave.ed localities Of the city. Jsst
high e,or<fi 10 take the starch out OF my
-, s-,fIarP said he. But. as if anxious 10
MAINTAIN the good standing Of real estsse IN
his psighborhood. be addsd= 'Bse absn, yea
know, am . very short man.'-e- q q aEaI
Some one was banserisE- eidzea Caul
field sbou, the magnificent watsrscAPe which
his rancho presented. to whieh be promptly
resnond ed: Il wouidn't give . eoppes.4or 2
man that couldn't have . lake Of his own-
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