The weekly Butte record., 1862-01-18
The Last Flood.

10 our last issue we mentioned that another
flood was upon us, Of proportions surprising
that of December 9th, but it did not reach its
highest point until towards noon of Saturday.
the llth, when a greater portion of the way
from Myers street to the saw MILL Montgome
ry street, was submerged to depth, in many
places, Of two feet or more, causing the hasty
removal of families living upon the lower side
of the street. together with furniture and fix
lures and, also the tools. machinery and ma
terial from several workshops. Many of the
buildings were fastened with ropes stretched
across the street and lashed to permanent OBJ
jects on the opposite side, thereby saving a
large number which would have otherwise been
washed away. The angry waves played sad
havoc at the saw mill, by the washing away of
lumber, the tumbiDg around OF buildings and
the disarrangement Of machinery, etc. Follow
ing down from the saw mill, several stables and
out-houses were washed away-includiDg two
stables situated on Myers street. one immed
ately in the rear of Faulkner & Co.'S banking
house, and the other opposite the hay barn and
wagon shed of the California Stage Company
on Huntoon street. departed with the balance
And, now we come to a point where the most
real damage was done Chinatown, which has,
in years past, withered and pershed so often at
the hands of the devouring element-fre, and
as often rebuilt, was completely = sluced out"
Friday evening the waters commenced peram-
bulating the main street Of the burgh, and
above the roar of the angry food could be
be heard a din of voices, as discordant and un-
ineligible as the confounded tongues at the
tower of Babel Teams were brought into
requisition, goods and merchandise, (if such
truck viii bear the name) pigs and chickens,
men and women, in wild confusion, were hur-
ried TO places of safety several almost worth
less buildings were hoated off and others moved
from their foundations. But some of the al
mondeyed, opium-smoking fraternity suffered
in manner little expected by them: Their
adobe buildings, built fire proof, and which
have heretofore successfully withstood the raw
ages of that element, could not withstand the
assaults of the other elemeut-water, but melt
ed down before the food as quickly as their
wooden neighbors would before fire, leaving
huge pile of mud TO mark the site where
they once stood. unscathed by the clements
The telegraph wire was again carried away
across the river, cutting off communication
with the upper country.
Below here, at kent's Ranch, the river over
flowed its banks and caused considerable dam
age by sweeping away fences and washing
away the road so that travel, with teams, in
that direction is impossible. Here, too, the
telegraph line was broken-some of the trees
and poles upon which the wire rested having
been carried away. The water gained hight
of seventeen inches in keut's house, being six
teen inches higher than on the 9th of Decem-
Der. Farther down, near Onyets Ranch, the
road is impossible, from encroachments of the
river, consequently, the stages and all travel,
which is but little, in the direction of Marys-
vile, goes by the Prairie House.
The river, at this point, attained hight at
least two feet higher than at the last great
flood but the destruction of property has been
far less. This last inandalion has "played
out the Z" Oldest iuhabitant : II is the only
food he ever witnessed
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