Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-22
rect. at Twelfth street. The river showed

| points registered rise OF nearly TOUR lncneS.
At Sixteenth street some low outside leyees
about Chinese gardens were overtopped and
swept away, which at $3.50 were fully one foot
out of water The rise from to 10 o'clock
was judged to have been more rapid than be-
| fore or SINCE Under the railroad trestle and
| bridge the current is very strong and angry.
| While the river Is thus recorded as still on
the upward path at midnight, dispatches from
| Folsom say that at P. NJ. at that place the
| American stood at twenty-four feet six inches
and was falling. This will probably be re-
fected by fall of the river here at about 9
o'clock this morning, but may be followed by
an equally sudden rise, as the headwaters are
known to be very copi0us and all the noun
tain streams gorged. At this writing the
American may be said to be, below Twenty
| second street, ten feet below the levee top.
| No watchmen were met on the levee last
night on the trip up to the railroad bridge
and back.
DRAINAGE MATTERS.
The unparalleled fall of rain the past three
days has been too much for the city sewers,
and they have not been equal to the task of
carrying off the drainage as fast as it accumu-
! lated. The result has been general delug-
ing of number of low-grade streets and the
flooding of many yards and cellars. While
| the north part of the city has had much of
most. From Ninth street to Nineteenth, on
o and 2 streets, the whole section
has been more or less flooded by
the shed of water from the lands
east of the city. This was occasioned by the
inability of Burns slough to carry off the
water. 1t passes through the railroad grade
| between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets
| by 32-inch pipe. After much discussion
| the grade was cut last evening and the sur
| plus waters of the drain allowed to flow
| through. This, it is believed, will prevent
| further deposition of drainage below
| Eighteenth street and allow that already in
yards and Easements to run off, as the sewers
and drains are all free and are doing full
duty, and if Burns slough is compelled to
carryits burden through the grade the residents
below will be protected by the local sewers.
Residents beyond r street and above Six
teenth street last evening petitioned Superin-
tendent Davis to cut the Y-street levee and
let the waters off that way, as he had done
the R-street grade. The r and Eighteenth
street work was done under his personal su-
pervision, and the sides of the cut were
banked up with sand bags furnished by the
railroad company. The cut was made
directly over the cement pipe of the
drain. Mayor Turner objected to the cut
| ting, while Superintendent Davis was in favor
of it. The railroad grade at Sixth street
was cut Tuesday night over the sewer,
to give greater outlet for drainage
water, and last night it was enlarged. In no
city situated similar to this, on plain could
like rainfall occur and not result in the
street and yard floods above mentioned AS
it is, many nice gardens will have to be re-
made, many cellars cleaned and some base
ment stories refurnished-that in the resi-
dence of Superintendent Davis himself is
| one. Outside of Thirty first street are 2, 600
| acres of land, higher than the city grades.
! All this land received upon it Monday and
| Tuesday nearly five and one-half inches of
rain, and all this fall, by our present system
of drainage, flows down into the city. This
fact accounts for the flooding of streets and
yards in certain sections. Burns slough is
supposed to receive this drainage, but when
it is overtaxed the result can only be as re-
| corded.
THE WASHINGTON LEvEE.
Some of the residents of Washington, on
the other side of the Sacramento, worked
nobly yesterday, and piled wall of sacks
and dirt on the outer side of the levee, where
it was in a most dangerous condition. But
| for this the town would have been flooded.
At midnight the sacks were protecting the
| levee, though strong current setting across
| from the American was washing against
them. The levee evidently was strong
| enough to last until to-day, when it is I'M
derstood it will be faced with stone
ON THE MOUNTAINS.
| The rain which set in Wednesday evening
at Cisco, Emigrant Gap and Blue Canyon,
continued until o'clock yesterday morning,
when snow began again at all points where it
had been showing. The rain fell at Blue
Canyon during thirteen hours eight hours at
Emigrant Gap, and but little at Cisco Last
night at u o'clock all the telegraph wires east
of Summit were down. By means of a tele-
phone line it is learned that there were seven
or eight slides yesterday between Summit
and Truckee. and that sheds were
down in many places, though to what
extent it was not known. 1t is supposed
that force of men are working their way
| through the slides. The road is free from
snow west of Cisco, but between that point
and Summit there are several bad slides,
though two plows are working at them and
they will be cleared away by o'clock this
morning. At l o'clock it is showing hard at
Cisco, with the barometer registering % 90 ;
at Emigrant Gap light snow, mingled with
rain, is falling, and at points west it is cloudy,
with south breeze.
p. f. Scott, Superintendent of all the sheds
west of Summit, last night completed care
full examination OF those not fallen, and re-
ports them entirely safe, provided no heavy
| slueS QesCSHu Ut Tue weather becomes more
severe. He has large number of men en-
ployed shoveling the snow from off them.
AN IMMENSE LAND SLIDE
Came down from the mountain side at P NJ.
yesterday, about one-quarter of mile east
of Emigrant Gap, hurting along with it
| powders weighing many tons. Where it
descended the track is above an immense
gorge, and the roadway dug in the side of the
mountain. The debris buried the track for
distance of 800 feet and to the average depth
of twenty feet. Men at once began shovel
ing to clear away the mass of stone and earth,
but cannot finish the work in four days.
Miners residing whereabouts say that the
easiest method of accomplishing the task is
by means of sluices, water-power being near
| by. E. c. Fellows, Assistant General Su-
perintendent, and l.. M. Clements, Assistant
/ Chief Engineer, went up from San Francisco
by special car last night to judge of the
feasibility of the undertaking. If nothing
occurs east of Alta the road is expected
to be open to-day, except at
the landslide, and eastern trains
will come down to that place and
passengers, express and mails be transferred
| from one overland train to another until the
route is clear. If the sluicing operation
proves successful, the obstacle may be re-
moved and the entire injury repaired to-day,
| though nttle can De determined upon unLl
daylight Superintendent Pratt, with his
hundreds Of assistants, are laboring manfully
between Cisco and Truckee.
TRAINS AND FREIGHT.
! The overland train from San Francisco
came up by Tracy and Stockton yesterday,
owing to the high waters in the tules
making it possibly dangerous for heavy
train to come across the marshes. 1t did not
arrive here until nearly o'clock. The
| lightning train, however, arrived on time last
evening, having come by the Benicia route.
The track is slightly under water and
sinking little at some places, conse-
! auently no freights were sent out by
/ that route during the night. The regu-
lar Oregon train did not arrive here
yesterday. 1t stopped at Wheatland, and
the mails, express and passengers were trans
ferred on hand. cars across Bear river, which
for one mile was running over the track,
having badly injured the trestle-work. They
were then brought down by freight engine,
arriving here at o'clock last evening. Pas
sengers will be thus transferred until the
waters go down, but no freight trains will be
sent out.
Superintendent Wright, of the Sacramento
and Placerville Railroad, yesterday strength
ened the railroad grade at Eighteenth and r
streets, where drainage-water was washing a
ew-made fill in trestle.
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