Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-19
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| terruption, for nearly five days. There
has been (standingl more water on the
ground here, for Il little while. several
/ tiues-whcn Il thaw and rain nave fol-
| lowed a heavy snow faii-but, unless
! in 1862, there has never fallen upon and
| been carried overthe ground, anything
| like as much water as has come down
! into and rushed past the town since last
| Friday night. Yesterday several ofthe
streets leading down from the Sierra
were literally river beds. The capacity
Of Treadway's creek proved itself far
! too limited to carry oTthe tremendous
! food which came surging down its
channel. At the bridge which crosses
the creek lust beyond the old Round
House on the Reno track, the rubbish
and drift stun choked, and then
and there up rose the water.
right over the banks, aal poured, a
! swollen, muddy de,uge over acrcss the
fields and down the railway track in =
perfect torrent. Finally one past Of Il
forced its way down through the scLe'i-
house yard ana thence through Proctor
street, in a regular riyer-so much Of II
stream in fact that to max. pedestrian
travel across it possible, high. tempo
rary bridge was placed from Rinc.si's to
Gibson 4 Dssly's corner. At bo,h the
railway tracks leading west there was
Wild roaring stream, ard a. .roi.t o: the
Carson Exchange and thereabout every
thing was sramped. W have seen
nothing like the swirl Of water thsrs
since The cloud-burSt Q; last year. See
oud street ran another river, aid all day
long, past our Office .hsre steamed
re and resisiess cataract IF muddy
water.
rEa IAILBCaps
"a elsewhere stated, the csGse o! the
detention Of the mails yesterday T-s =
landslide at ColfaI on the lin. Of the {.
2. Railway. We were informed yester-
day afternoon that freight :rain WAS
eft the track 4: Verdi About 8 o'clock
last evening we visited the railway sta
ton TO ascertain the condition Of the
track, etc. Nr. Yerington informed us
that bridge between Hill Station and
Fraultovn had been carried away. but
that he had force Of men at work there
and that he expected new bridge vould
be constructed in few hours. Other
wise, We believe, the main track ~as all
right, although it was quite wisely de-
termined by him not 10 attempt to reach
Reno with train las. night. SO that
there was no night passenger train from
Virginia at all. 1; sp-aks volumes for
the management and excellence * this
crooked railroad that as many as "A
trains passed over that part of it lying
between here and Virginia City y.st.r-
day.
TIKI MOOD FILES
up AZ the head Of the old track
were closely watched for fear that
the great volume o: water by which
they were surrounded would play
some havoc there. But while We were
at the depot, Captain Haynie came in
and reported everything all safe.
AT THE LAKE,,
on Sunday night, Davis & Notewares |
plupger the schooner dragged her I
anchor and went ashore near Jim |
Small's place. Buck says that tLous-
and dollars will cover all damages. !
THE BAROMETER
last evening was rising, just shade, in
licating the possibility OF favorable
,hange in the weather.
OLD PROBABILITIES,
Alias Charley Friend, dropped into our
office last night to say that the rainfall
Turing the twenty-four hours ending at
O'Clock last eveuip. was 3J-lO0.
This makes total for November
III during this s:orm-of + 5S-100inche,,
/ tremendous deluee.
The trains will doubtless 10 running
7ithou. interruption to-day.