Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-31
MARROW ESCAPE OF MARYsVILLE.

Immense Damage in San Francisco
by Sewer Breaking, Etc.
FLOODED TOWNS AND INJURED ROADS.
The Most Disastrous Visitation Since the
Flood of 1861.
ESPECIAL BY TELEGRAPH TO The RECORD -US1es.l
SAN FRANCISCO, January 30th.-Imroense
damage has resulted in this city from the
storm of the past two days in sewer-breaking,
cellar-hooding, road-sinking and railroad
washouts. In the low-lying portions of the
city, in the neighborhood of Washington,
Clay and Sacramento streets, and between
Sansome and the water front, the cellars are
several feet deep with water in some in
stances. The sewers near Seventeenth street,
choked, and the water has backed out into
the low lots and Easements, playing general
havoc. During Friday night the entire sewer
caved in for whole block on Webster street,
near Turk. The street is reported ruined
The rainfall for the first twenty -four hours,
beginning at o'clock on Thursday night,
was LIS inches. During the succeeding
twenty-four hours ending at o'clock last
evening, the rainfall was 4.67 inches, making
the total fall during the forty-eight hours
storm 5.S5 inches. The rainfall thus far for
the season is 20. 80 inches, against H. 53 inches
for the same time in 1880, and AS inches for
1879.
SAN Francisco, January Both - 11:3O
P. Mt is still raining here, though not
heavily. For the As hours ending at o'clock
this morning 637 inches rain fell here.
YREKA.
YREKA, j January 30th.-After the snow-storm
of the 25th and 26th of II to 20 inches in the
valleys and several feet in the mountains, the
weather cleared off, but about dark of the
9th rain-storm set in, raining continually
since. 1t is still pouring down. The rivers
are very high, and still rising. SCOTS river
is too high to cross on the Scott valley road
to Redding at Callahan's. There has been
no mail over Scott Mountain since the 26th
ON the Sacramento river road. Pit river
and other streams are booming, with pros
poets of a repetition of the 1862 food, if not
greater. The snow checks the flowing of the
water from the heavy rain, SO that it does
not run off with as great rush as it would
otherwise but the average flow is greater
than at any time since 1861.
MARYsvILLE.
MARYsvILLE, January 3Oth--1:30 P. NJ
The river is not rising now. The Brown S
Valley grade above the city has broken. and
lets the Yuba across the plains into the
Feather. The Sutter levees down the river
are reported the same way. This is relieving
us. 1t is now thought the river will be kept
out, however heavy rains are reported in the
mountains, with the creeks fuller than ever
known.
MARYsvILLE, January 30th-2P P. M.-The
river is falling steadily all around. We have
weathered the gale, and are safe now unless
another rise is precipitated upon US tonight.
People are now confident of safety. The rain
is over here, and the sun is shining.
MARYsvILLE, January S0th-5:10 P. NJ
Nearly FIVE inches of rain fell during the
storm, swelling the Yuba river to greater
hight than was ever knewn. In the notable
food in 1875, when the city was inundated,
the highest food mark was sixteen feet. To-
day at 3 o'clock the water-gauge marked
seventeen feet and four inches, when it
began to recede. The levees were guarded
in all weak places. There is no water inside
the levees, except surface water on some
back streets Reports reach us that por-
tion of the Sutter county levee, below Yuba
City, has given away ; also the portion in
District No. l known as the new levee. A
like report is that about 300 feet of railroad
track is washed away at Bear river, and a
portion of the trestle-work near Sheridan has
also gone. The Oroville track is submerged
to an impassable extent. No train has run
over it since Friday evening.
MARYsvILLE, January 30th-9:30 P. NJ
The river has gone down foot and half
and the city is safe.
wHEATLAND.
WHEATLAND, January 30th-4 P. Mt
still continues raining, with prospects of a
continuance. The rivers are very high. The
levees on the south side of Bear river broke
one and half miles below the dam, and it
was the means of lowering the river. The
railroad track south of Bear river bridge is
washed out in many places for mile. Three
bents of the bridge are out of line and one
has completely gone down stream. On the
north side Of the river everything is working
well. 1t viii take six feet more raise before
any danger is felt. 1t is impossible to hear
from the country or the dam, owing to all the
small creeks being too high to Cross
NEVADA.
NEVADA, January 30th.-The water in
Deer creek is fifteen inches higher than it
was in the year 1861, at the time of the
heavy floods. Considerable damage has al
ready been done. Foot-bridges have been
carried away, and washouts and land.slides
are reported in different directions. The
breaking Of fumes and bitches has caused a
number of the principal quartz mills, such as
l
the Merrifeld, Providence and Wyoming, to
shut down. In some of the smaller mines
there is more water coming in than the ma
| chinery can take. The present outlook indi-
Gates long storm. Nearly four inches of
rain fell during the past eighteen hours. The
total for this storm is little over II inches.
| Total for the season, AZ. .4S inches.
RIO VISTA.
Rio VISTA, January 30th-7 P. M.-Ye..
| terday afternoon break occurred in the
levee on the south side of Brannan Island
along Seven-mile Slough. The steamer On.
ward. of the California Transportation Com.
pany, delayed her regular trip to San Fran.
cisco and carried force of workmen to the
scene of the disaster. No particulars have been
received at this writing, but it is supposed
the break must be of very serious character,
as the steamer has not yet returned, though
| it is more than twenty-four hours siHce she
started. 1t rained heavily all night and al