Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-01-27
The Storms nninrS

The continuance of the stormy weatheI
has caused continuance of reports O.
; damage done by it to levees. farms. road.
and bridges. In many localities travel by
team is almost entirely suspended. So far
the levees in the vicinity of Sacramento
have withstood the high water remarkably
wei, and those surrounding the CITY have
nobly sustained the confidence Sacra-
mentans have repOsed in Them The TINS
tees have not allowed this confidence ia
| prevent them from exercising vigilance
however, and care has been taken. to puord
against the unexpected. The high stage of
the Sacramento caused the belief that some
OF the levees below the city, on one side or
the other of the river would give way, but
SO far they are holding we'll OF course
they are being looked after, for, being so
thoroughly saturated with water, neg
lected gopher hole would soon cause a
crevasse
Washington Fern, who lives on the Riv-
erside road. several miles below the CITY.
was IN town yesterday forenoon. and said
the levees in his neighborhood are all in
good condition. The only danger they an
prehend is from gopher holes Those in
dustrious little animals live in the levees
by thousands, and wherever thev are found
the levees are weakened by their many
little tunnels. He says the man who saws
that gopher never runs drift = more
than eighteen inches in length does not
know anything about the animals-in fact,
don know any more about gophers than
Boggs does about bugs. He saws that if all
the steamers that pass up and down the
river would keep in the middle of the
stream, instead of hugging the shore the
swell thus created would do little or no
damage to the levees.
Steamboat men reported that the pump
ing engines of the Pearson Reclamation
District were blowing danger signals before
daylight yesterday morning, but the fol-
lowing dispatch to the RECORD UNION from
p. J. Van Lobensels, Chairman of the
Board of Trustees Of the District, sent from
Walnut Grove yesterday shows that they
feel easy: Pearson Reclamation District
safe. Levees three feet out ofwater. Please
publish If reports to the contrary are circu-
lated or published
The telegraph line is down between
Woodland and Knights Landing. but it is
reported that a break in the levee has taken
place just below the landing, at Snowballs
ranch, and that an immense body of water
is rushing through upon the low lands in
the vicinity, and backing up to the town.
The 4olo Democrat of Monday evening
reported: Thomas Laugenour has about
sixty head of cattle at the sink of Cache
creek, on Mr.. Woodlands place, and fears
are entertained lest they have been
drowned. If the levee built this fall by
Mr.. Woodland has stood the storm the cat
tie are all right. but as the water during
the other storm was to the top of the en-
bankment, it is believed this last flood
must have overflowed the land. Mr..
Hennegan is on the place, but has not
been heard from"
So much water has run in upon the low
land of Yolo county from Cache and Putah
creeks, and through breaks in the levees
along the Sacramento, that an imm ense
inland sea has formed, presenting a remark
able appearance to passengers by the trains
especially when the wind is high
The Conrad levee below the town of
Washington was reported yesterday to be
in a critical condition, but John Conrad
subsequently stated that it was all right
The water yesterday had risen almost to
the top of the bulkhead at the end of
the levee above Washington, and a fearful
stream was running through the old break
in the bulkhead
Last night rain was falling at all points
between this city and Cisco-at some of
them quite hard. 1t was showing at the
Summit
Some little excitement was created last
night by a report which prevailed, to the
effect that the levee at Fiint's ranch, below
the city, had broken, and that a large
force of men, with shovels and sacks had
been sent there to endeavor to stop it,
There does not appear to have been any
truth i'll the rumOr. Johnnie Grondona,
who has a ranch in that vicinity, came up
about halfpast 3 in the evening to get
lantern and water proof coat and reported
that the levee was being patrolled thor
oughly, and would be all night. 1t was
holding well, and the only danger appre-
hended was from gopher holes RI bierk-
ley was * holding the fort at his lower
ranch, the old Mesick place. The general
belief is that the levee is weakest down
near the end of the Riverside road, and not
near the city. The Sacramento river rose
yesterday to the 25-foot mark, which it
reached about noon. Between that time
and p. NJ. it fell two inches, and then
remained stationary until last evening,
when 1t again commenced to. rise, and at
IL O'Clock was up to "A feet III inches.