Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-03-17
TIE STORM STILL Raegs.
The West bound Train Remains snow
Bound at Blue Canyon-The Storm Gen.
eral Thrnuebout the State.

Bound at Blue Canyon-The Storm aen-
eral Throughout the State.
The storm that commenced last Sunday
continues in every direction. Along the rail-
road in the Sierras it has been raging with
unabated fury. Land.slides have occurred
/ in many places, snow, sheds have been caVed
in. and the road for many miles is completely
blocked The wess.bound train, due IN this
city Wednesday morning at $50, is still at
Blue Canyon, and will III all probability re-
main there for day or SO longer. All OF the
east. bound trains are held at Colfax. and
those coming west at Reno. Superintendent
Il. FL. Pratt. since the commencement OF the
storm, has been constantly on the ground,
with large force of men, and aided by snow
plows, are doing all that could be done TO
clear the track, but there are so many slides
and the snow is Of so great . depth, that 1t
is slow work. The east-b bound train that was
laid up at Blue Canyon was preceded yestsr-
day by snaw.plow propelled by hve en-
eines. After great difficulty that tram
reached Truckee last evening.
| In this city yesterday the weather was
quite variable. There was no rain OF any
moment after II noon. The sun shone most
of the day, and light showers occasionally
fell, but at no time did it appear as II the
storm was over.
The river, at u o'clock last night stood at
the 19-foot 4 inch mark, having risen four
inches in the preceding twenty-four hours.
The water on the Yolo side, above the town
of Washington, is running through the Old
and ENCLOSED break Of two years ago tor
distance of mile. The people of Washing
ton have done some work on the levee to keep
it from washing. The American river SO FAR
during this storm, has risen but slightly, and
Kept within its banks. This is owing prob
ably to the fact that very little rain, but
principally snow, has fallen in the section
drained by that river.
The total rainfall during the storm for each
signal service station Is as follows, VIZ:
Olympia, Is Of an inch Portland. 20 OF All
inch Roseburg, 20 of an inch Rad Bluff.
l 45 inches; Sacramento, 2 IL inches; San
Francisco, 1877 inches; Visalis, SO of an
inch Los Angeles, ? "a inches; Saa Diego,
ST Of an inch.
The following statement of rainfall is oh.
tailei from the record kept by S. Ii. Ger
rish. Mr.. Gerrish has taken meteorological
observations number of years here. His
rain gauge is not at the same altitude as
that used at the signal service station.
1t will be observed that the totals OF
rainfall given as the result of the two OBJ
servations do not agree. Mr.. Gerrish re-
ports as follows: Rainfall for the present
storm, up to noon yesterday, 1920 inches,
making total for the month of 2, 9S9 inches,
and for the season Il 164 inches. The fol-
lowing are the amounts of rainfall at this
date for different seasons: 1876, "a 500
inches; 1877, $3.50 inches; 1878. 2O.055
inches: 1879. II 3g9 inches; 1880, 9 $50
inches; 1881, % $50 inches.
Dispatches received at this Office from vari-
Gus sections of the State last evening gene
rally announce a continuance of the storm.
AT San Buenaventura it was raining lightly.
At San Luis 0bispo, since Friday morning.
| 5.66 inches had fallen. At Georgetown, FL
| Dorado county, three and half feet of snow
fell in As houis, doing some damage by crush
ing in roofs At San Jose it rained heavily
ia the for snoon. One inch and thirty-one
hundredths fell at Woodland during the
storm. and it was still raining at 2 P. NJ. At
Bakersfield it was showeriUg all day. 1t
rained at intervals until noon at Visalis, and
all fears of a drought are dispelled. The
storm still continued at Shasta, though with
| less severity. 1t began raining again at Santa
Rosa last evening, after clear day. Since
Friday Is inches of rain has fallen at S&R
Juan South. A heavy rain-storm has ragged
at Downieville since Monday, and the aver
age depth of snow in Sierra county is Is feet.
All travelling except on snowshoes, has been
stopped Frequent showers occurred all day
at MERGED. At San jose il rained lightly
again last evening.