Weekly Calaveras chronicle. (Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County, Cal.) 18??-1874, 1867-12-28

rrRDAl. -: DECEMBER %, 1867.
~, sroEs.-A storm, unprecedented in
,a,rals of the State for its fury, has been
during the present week. Commenc-
.u Saturday last it continued with una
- violence until Thursday morning, when
d;ed from sheer inanition. About u
,,,lock Saturday night, while the rain was
-..-inr down in torrents, the wind COM
-,.need blowing, gradually increasing in
.--srgth until at o'clock Sunday morning
!, blew perfect hurricane. Nothing could
,rceed the raging fury of the blast. Solid
.,one buildings shook and trembled to their
s,nndations, the trees bent their heads to the
ground, and wooden tenements reeled and
.waved to and fro in the binding storm like
5runken men. The wind came in gusts and
IN the intervals between them nothing could
he heard save the pattering of the ram as 1t
came down in sheets. The approaching blast
could be heralded by rushing noise like the
SOuHQ OF many hdACAS s--S $1,000
would be upon US, moaning, bowling anu
sbrieking, as though the air was filled with
fends struggling for the mastery, then pass
.vav in the distance roaring like mighty
o.+aract. The tornado eliminated about
4ve o'clock Sunday morning. Seemingly
-,.ddened at its want of success in destroy
;rc it gathered its mighty energies for
Col struoole. Its onset was like the charge
e ton thousand horsemen. 1t conquered.
Tho heavy wooden awning over the upper
balcony on the Odd Fellows building was
.rrned I'D like the leaf of table and blown
.bo whole length of the roof of the hall over
;Dto the door-yard of Mr.. NELSON'S residence,
CARRYING away the liberty pole in its fight.
The fall of the pole displaced large stone in
tie coping of the roof which came down
,,nou the sidewalk with laundering crash,
deDolishing the II. o. o. T. lantern and
tle Post Office awning in its passage. Two
scantling belonging to the Odd Fellows
awning went through the roof of Mr..
Nelson's dwelling house with such force
Is to be driven considerable distance into
The hoor. Some damage was done to the
roo. of the United States saloon. Peek s.
Cos hay barn, at the upper end of Main
street, was completely demolished. The
roof of large shed opposite the Washington
Hotel was blown off and carried a distance
Of hundred and fifty feet. bodily. Strange
as it may seem, none Of the fume aqueducts
were blown down. Apparently satisfied
with the damage it had accomplished, the
wind slackcned. dying away in fitfui puffs
like the gasps of an expiring giant. The
rain, however, continued to pour down until
Thursday, when we were treated to occG-
siopal CLEANS of sunshine. Our streets are
simply vast reservoirs of mud, the roads are
impassa6le, the rivers and creeks can scarce
II contain themselves within their banks, and
in many instances bridges have been carried
away By the food. From what we can
learn we judge that the storm was general
throughout the State. Nothing has been
heard from Sacramento since Monday last /;
then the river was rising with fearful rapid
ity. Whether it is overfowcd, washed en-
trcly away or ''all right at Rabers tannery."
we do not know. At Stockton no damage
aas been done by the flood. We have not
received a paper, since Monday, from any
portion of the State. AS Big Bar bridge has
been partially carried away, and telegraphic
communication broken i'll every direction, it
viii probably be some time before we re-
ccive intelligence from the outer world. We
lave one consolation If it rains until it
washes the mountains into the Pacific, there
is no danger that Mokelumne Hill will be
orerfowed.