Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-21

SOlanO County.
Dixon, April 20th.-The storm continues
with undated fury. The rainfall for April
amounts to $50 inches, or IA inches for the
season. Fears exist that the grain on the
adobe lands will be drowned out, and also
that the summer-fallow will fall down and
not be able to rise again.
YOIO County.
DAvIsvILLE.-It commenced raining here
about s o'clock yesterday morning, and has
rained steadily and continuously ever since.
Putah creek is higher than at any time this
season, and is rising rapidly. The water is
running out through the old break formed
several years ago some two miles above here,
inundating a large section of country south of
this place on the Solano side, doing consid-
cradle damage to grain fields in that section.
1t is still raining, and every indication points
to continuance of the storm. Rainfall for
the last twenty-four hours, 2 inches.
WOODLAND rainfall here the present
storm is ZIG inches. 1t is now raining lightly.
and threatens more. Putah creek is out of
its banks, and large tract of country be-
tween Dixon and Davisville is overlooked.
The railroad bridge at Winters is gone.
Cache creek is rising, and will probably be
over its banks tonight. 1t is feared the
worst is yet to come.
Butte County.
CHICo.-For the past week this section has
been visited with cold, cloudy, showery
weather. Yesterday morning it commenced
raining again, and continued without inter-
mission until o'clock to-day, giving us over
thirty hours of good hard rain. Heavy SHOWS
were reported in the mountains on Saturday
and Sunday, but yesterday it was raining
there, and the snow is melting fast. All the
creeks are full, and some of them are over the
banks. All the stages running out of Chico
had to return this morning. From Durham
to Biggs, Butte creek has flooded the country,
and many fine fields of grain are under wa
ter; but it is too earl yet to estimate the
damage. One inch and sixty-fve one-huu-
dredths was the rainfall for the twenty-four
hours ending at oclocl, this morning. The
total for the season is al inches, against
1912 to the corresponding date of last year.
ORovILLE.-A very steady and quite heavy
rain has fallen for the past two days. The
thermometer varies but little from 50' wind
heavy northwest. A telephone from Flee
Valley reports that rain has fallen on eight
feet of snow since last night. Rain is also
reported on heavy snow at Clipper Mills.
The river here is now seven feet six inches
above low water, and rising about three
inches per hour. All that can now prevent a
very heavy food is continued cold till the
storm ceases. Rainfall since yesterday morn
ing, go inches for April, to date, 5 inches;
total for the season, 80 % inches.
sonOma County.
WINDsoR.-W are now having a terrible
rain-storm. Five and half inches of rain
has fallen in the last 60 hours, and 81 inches
during this month. 1t is still raining.
Co,usa County.
CoLUsA.-We have had 2.47 inches of rain
since yesterday morning up to noon to-day,
with prospects for more. The river is FIVE
feet below the high-water mark, and is just
beginning to rise.
Sierra County.
DowNIEvILLF-Twel feet of new snow
has fallen at Gold Lake and on the ridges
during the past seven days. The road via the
Mountain House has been closed since last
Monday The storm continues with uuabated
fury, though it is raining now. Ten feet of
new snow has fallen at Forest City.
Napa County.
NAPA.-The heaviest storm of the season
commenced yesterday morning. For the past
thirty hours there has been continuous rain,
with a strong wind from the southeast. The
river is higher than at any previous time this
season, though not quite so high as during the
flood of March, 1879. In many places the
streams have overhowed their banks, and
much wheat is under water. The flood was
sudden and unexpected. No such rain has
ever been known in this valley so late in the
season. The damage done to the crops is con-
siderable, especially on the low lands. Fences
are washed away in many places. The storm
at . P NJ has abated, but evidently will bo
renewed.
Yuba County.
MARYsvILLE.-We are how experiencing
the most protracted storm of the season.
Rain has been falling without cessation for
over 80 hours, causing the Yuba and Feather
rivers to rise, but not to an alarming extent.
Both are still within their banks. The former
reached the ten-foot mark, which is not as
high by six inches as it was month ago, but
nine hundredths inches of rain has fallen to
3P. NJ; seasons total, 1924 inches. Some
apprehension is felt about the recently con-
structed levee on the Browns Valley grade
washing, but the weak portion has been
sacked, and is now thoroughly secure. Should
the weather moderate and melt the snow in
the mountains, we would have the highest
water of the season. As long as it keeps
cold there is but little danger of food.
Thermometer 52' all day; wind southeast.
WHEATLAND.-The river is at the highest
point of the season and still rising. The
levees are all right yet, but if the storm con-
tinues much longer they cannot withstand
the pressure.
Shasta County.
SHAsTA.-The snow yesterday was four
inches deep at Shasta and over two feet on
the mountains above the town. From yes
terday at 5 o'clock P. NJ. to this morning at II
o'clock it rained % inches, and since then
over inch has fallen. 1t has poured down
in perfect torrent all day. and at this hour
"A o'clock P. NJ it is raining harder than ever.
The snow is melting fast on the mountains,
and the Sacramento river is raising so rapidly
that it will in few hours be so high that it
cannot be crossed Much fear is felt here
that there viii be food in the Sacramento
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