Weekly Trinity journal., 1866-12-29
Results Of the Late Storm In the Lower
Countiee.

State and more disastrous in its resnlts, IL pos-
sibIe than was the well-remembered one OF
l66l-G2, From the Shasta Courier OF tue Z-u
we learn Of the following damage in that coun-
ty &c On Wednesday morning the Neaverviile
stage started from here, but on reaching nishy
Creek the driver found that the bridge across
that stream hri been washed away uuring the
preyiots night, which necessitated his return 10
town. Part of the Clear Creek ditch fume
across Whisky Greek, was also carried away.
This fiume, at the point where 1t crosses the
creek, is about eighty feet high, and the vast
volume of water rushing down the narrow chan
mel, carried away four of the bents upon which
il rested, thus letting down that portion OF the
structure spanning the stream. From Horse
town we hear that the bridge which spanned
Clear Creek at that place has been carried away,
thus cutting off communication with the west
ern part of the county. On Wednesday morn
ing the water was reported to be up to the
stringers on Bells bridge, and the creek has
probably risen considerably since. Parties who
attempted to 90 from Whiskytown to the Tower
House found the Grizzly Gnlch bridge washed
away, and that usually insignificant stream
swollen to the dimensions of a river. Sixty feet
of the Clear Creek ditch flume across this gulch
has been swept away and lost. The dam at the
head of Davis ditch, at BriggsYille, has been
carried away"
IN lenaIna county tue uUOu HAS uCch NCiy
damaging: From the Red Bluff Independent of
the 10th we gather the following particulars =
q On Sunday morning the river was :" up and
booming having risen six feet during the previ-
ous night The pontoon bridge was torn up by
the huge masses of driftwood but most of the
loose lumber was recovered Two of the pom
toons foated down by the current were recover
ed on Monday by Howard Blacklidge and James
McTurk who moored them to a tree near the
mouth of Antelope creek. The steamboat land
ing is at the rear of Cutters mill for the pres
ent, the platform at the bar being entirely sub
merged. From that time it became more violent,
and on Monday night the rain had become
deluge the wind a simoon and the river an
angry sea. Tuesday night was the widest one
we ever saw The gale blew down signs and
tore ND roofs while the rain fell in torrents. a
porton of the brick parapet of the Red Bluff
Hotel become loose, but was secured without
damage The front of the Templars Hall was
blown off Wm B. Schroeder's house on Wash
ington street was blown eighteen inches off its
foundation"
The following additional particulars are as
certained from the Observer of the 22d -" Not
wthstandng the Sacramento River at this point
is two hundred feet wider now than in ls6l-62,
the water on Wednesday afternoon rose to the
highest mark of that year. At T. j. Prices
Ranch, one mile DelOW Inc uOuIu VI OOttou-
wood the river was six inches higher than in
ls6l-62 Ide's Bottom, below Red Bluff was
inundated, and SO were portions of Antelope
Valley, opposite this town. Cottonwood at
Jackson's, was two feet higher than ever before
known Reeds Creek Red Bank Creek and Oat
Creek, were also higher. We hear of much
damage in all directions, principally in the mat
ter of fencing washed away, and drift wood
lodging on fields. We apprehend the losses were
ario down the valley than here
but we have no advices. Rawson has lost some
fine sheep, but how many we cannot tell
Rumor gives other and more serious losses of
sheep, hogs and cattle, but we will wait for
facts II. Kraft succeeded in saving his pontoon
bridge, except some 400 feet of lumber
Of the damage done in Tehama county, below
the town of that name, we have no information
further than the following furnished the Sacra-
mcnto Union of last Saturday by G. W. Colby,
of Colby's Landing :-'' The country above is
an open sea, according to his statement. At
Nourse's warehouse, near Chico, the water
stood two feet on the floor. At Tehama the
water was so high that people went with boats
in the streets and over the sidewalks into the
stores. In\Tehama county, Widow Simpson lost
some 200 hogs, and A. G. Toomes $50 head of
cattle, 60 head in one lot In Toomes' granary,
which contained 300 tons of wheat, the water
lot for flour. Read & McCreary's warehouse at
Tehama mills was carried off by the flood, but
about 900 sacks of -four which were in it, had
been taking out just before the flood came. At
Colbys Landing, about ten miles above Chico,
the water stood a the depth of about two feet.
Colby loses about $4,000 worth of hogs and a
large quantity of hay. The Montgomery Broth
ers, at Cobys Landing, will lose about 5000
sheep, which were valued at $40, ,OOO.'
q 4 e
San Francisco, the following was telegraphed to
the Union of the 22d :-"The fall of rain has
been beyond anything ever known before in
San Francisco. During the twenty-four hours
ending at eight o'clock this morning the fall
was $4,000 inches, which, added to the prev-
GUS fall, makes IA 47-l00 At Mission Dolores
the fall was 75-l0O, and at Pillarctos, San
Mateo county, nine inches. Reports of damage
and loss of life come in from all directions No
trains have succeeded in getting through on the
San Jose road as yet, and none will be started
before tomorrow night. The track is under
water for a long distance, and the bridges at
San Mateo and Mountain View carried away
The high bridge over the Gaudaloupe at San
Jose, is under water, and only saved from be-
ing carried away by being ballasted and stayed
with ropes and by knocking out the plankng on
the sides to allow the current to sweep through
The construction train which attempted to come
through to-day from San Mateo, last night, when
about half way to the Seventeen Mile House,
while passing along the submerged track, went
down where a culvert was washed away, and
became wrecked and imbedded in the mud and
water SO as to make it impossible to extricate it
until the waters subside. At Napa the food
was within an inch or two of that of 1861, and
the Suscol Railroad was submerged through its
whole length. From Petaluma, Sonoma and
Healdsburg the reports are of similar character.