Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-01-06
SNOW ANG RAIN.
Sacramento Gets a Little OF both-1h'
BOYS Have Lots of hun.

About o'clock yesterday morning 1t be
gan to snow, and for upwards of an houl
it came down in beautiful flakes, until TIT
entire city was covered with a mantle
of white. 1t was an unusual sight, and
the old as well as those of tender years
could not resist the temptation to engage IN
the pastime of snowballing. A dozen OF
more men and boys were stationed at
every street corner and the passing pedes-
TRANS and those who drove by in vehicles
were pelted with snowballs. 1t was not a
good day for Cinnamon to be upon the
streets, and but few of them showed up
until after the snow had disappeared, along
in the middle of the afternoon. In one or
two instances parties who were victims OF
this innocent amusement became very
much excited, but in nearly every instance
it passed off good naturally. A cigar
dealer who
HAD HIS TILE SMASHED
And pane of glass broken went on the
warpath, but his anger cooled somewhat
before il got up to the blood-letting pitch.
A lady who was walking on Fifth street,
near J, was hit with flying snow
ball. She became very angry, ran TO her
room near by, and getting a pistol came
back and would have perforated the young
man who threw the snow missile if he had
not skedaddled. The boys who represent
the hoodlum element of this city pelted the
street-car drivers SO numerically that the
superintendent of the road ordered all the
cars to the barn and the citizens had to
" hoof it the balance of the day. Several
of the windows in the street cars were
broken. The Chief of Police gave orders
to arrest all parties caught snowballing per-
sons in vehicles or the drivers ofstreet-cars.
One favorite way Of paraiyzing pedestrian,
especially if he wore silk hat, was to drop
about forty pounds Of the soft slush on top
of his head just as he emerged from under
the awning and stepped upon the cross
walk. So far as could be learned
no ONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED,
And but few panes of glass broken. Snow
sufficient to SNOWFALL with falls in this city
but once in a lifetime, and as it lasts only a
few moments then, the boys :" go wild over
It, and hence their wild excuses.
The Signal Service reporter, Sergeant
Barwick, says: A light rain began falling
yesterday about 4:20 A. NJ, and turned to
snow at $50 A. NJ, from which time to II 80
a. NJ, snow fell steadily and rapidly, when
there was at least an inch and g half on
the roof of the Signal Office building. The
snow-gauge showed one and half inches
unmelted snow, and when melted and
measured it showed .27 of an inch, which
is about equal to two and half inches of
snowfall. 1t can therefore be said that Sac
ramento has had an appreciable amount of
snow two days in succession, being one
and half inches on the 4th and two and
half inches on the 9TH, making four
inches for the two days.
The rain-gauOe Yesterday measured 81
of an inch OF rain and melted snow COM
bined, making ? 81 inches of moisture for
January and 5.37 inches for the season, as
against B. 10 inches to corresponding date
last season.
The temperature during the snow-storm
yesterday was the same as on the day be-
fore, being $50 on both occasions, rising to
$50 at noon, shortly after the cessation of
the snowy precipitation. The following
dates show the fall of snow since 1862:
January %, 1862, three-quarters of an
inch
January u, 1868, 162 inches.
December 3, 1873, six inches.
April ., 1875, trace; enough to whiten
the ground.
January 8, 1879. light trace
January 26, 1880, estimated at about one
quarter of an inch, but it melted as fast as
it fell
February II and IS, 1882, light traces of
snow.
December 81, 1882, about four inches.
February l and 6, 1888, very light fall.
January 4, 1888, one and one-half inches
January 8, 1888, about one inch of IN
melted snow on the ground at noon, when
the snowfall ceased.
Light rain began falling at 6 o'clock last
night, and at the 7-oclock observation .03
M q n hnh tot ,,alr,
"a of an inch yesterday, making 9 81
inches for January, and $40 inches for the
season, as against 80 inches to an equal
date last year.
The average temperature yesterday was
500, being Ito cooler than the normal tenn
perature for that day, which was 40. The
highest and lowest temperature was 400 and
$40, with variable winds and changeaole
weather; that is, the weather ranged from
light rain in the early morning, light snow
during the forenoon and clear to fair and
cloudy weather during the afternoon, and
light rain again at night. The barometer
is slowly rising.
The temperature wind and weather at Z
o clock last night was: For Olympia, 26,
north and clear; Astoria, 80, northeast and
clear Portland, %, northeast and clear;
Roseburg, 26, calm and cloudy; Red Bluff,
2S south and clear.
A gentleman who came down from Col
fax yesterday said there were ten inches OF
snow at Auburn in the forenoon about two
inches at Newcastle and from Penryn to
about mile above Rocklin there was
none at all. From the latter point down
the valley the ground was covered slightly
A dispatch from Truckee last night says
The storm has lasted ten days, with only
partial Interruptions. During every day
and night there has been rain, snow, sleet,
or wind. The snow is five feet deep and
falling fast. The ice crop of the Truckee
Ice Company and the Rocky Run Com
pany is ruined. The loss will probably be
$4,000. The other companies have full or
partial crops harvested. Miles of telegraph
line east of Truekee are Frustrated. The
wires are broken and the posts thrown fiat
on the ground. Only one wire is up be-
tween here and Boca. A large force OF
line repairers are at work, but it will take
at least two days to get the lines up. The
railroad company, by superhuman exer-
| tons, are keeping the road open, but there
is constant danger of a blockade Five
hundred men are working on the mountain
division. Over one hundred freight cars
have had to be shovelled out of deep snow
on the TrGckee side-tracks. The snow
plows are running constantly east and
west. 1t is showing harder on the noun
tains this afternoon than at any time since
the beginning Of the storm. All communi.
cation with Sierra valley and points away
from the railroad is effectually cut off.