Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-09
CALIFORNIA AND COAST.
4 Tragic Suicide and Murder in The
Little Town Of Corning.
HEAVY RAINS AND HIGH WATER.
Sudden Death at PlacervilIe-Heayy
Damages by the Floods at
Santa Cruz and Gilroy.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES To THE REcoRD-UNIoN.l
HEAVY RAINFALL.
Gilroy Inundated - Hangtown Creel
Booming-The Feather and Yuba.

creek
Booming-The Feather and Yuba.
SANTA CRUZ, December Sth-The San Lorenzo
river is higher than for years. 1t is now two
inches above the high-water mark of 1880. The
Laurel street extension is under water which
reaches to Pacific avenue opposite Laurel street.
The island near Front street is inundated, and
the people were removed from houses in boats.
Hundreds of logs are floating down the stream.
Fears are entertained that the bridges will be
carried away. The city has employed men to
clear away the logs which have lodged against
the supports. Two bridges on the Boulder
Creek Railroad have washed out. The road be-
tween Scott and Wadden creeks is under water.
Travel to Peseadero is impossible.
No trains over the narrow-gauge arrived to-
day We have had no San Francisco mail or
newspapers. Fears of the Boulder dam burst
ing continues The reports received during the
day that the dam had burst are false II the
dam should burst every dam on the river would
be carried away and result in heavy damage.
The high water is caused by the heavy down.
pour of last night and this morning. Hundreds
of people are on the bridge watching the flow of
water and the rush of logs.
The broad gauge train from San Francisco ar
rived on time this afternoon.
his morning the explosion of lantern in a
wash house at the powder works caused fire
which destroyed the house and the clothes of
the employees. Kearny and Mahoney employed
on the night shift, were burned but not seri-
onsly. They will recover in few days There
are prospects of more rain this evening.
GILRoY Deceber Sth Shortly after noon to-
day Uvas creek, one mile, east of town, over
flowed and ran into GilrOyl The southern end
of the city is covered with water. which is in
some places three feet deep. 1t is still rising,
necessitating the people to remove their furni-
ture, etc, from the houses. Several barns and
many fences have been washed away. The
damage cannot be estimated. bnt will certainly
reach up in the thousands. The rainfall has
been heavy and steady all day. The signs look
as if big storm was gathering, so the flood will
come up in the business portion of town. Store
keeners are busy packing up their goods on
high shelves for fear of water.
IoNE December sth-It has been raining
lightly, with occasional hard showers, for eight
days giving 1928 inches for the season. The
streams are rising, and everybody is predicting
an old-fashioned wet winter. The farmers can
do nothing, and business is at a stand-still 1t
is now pouring down.
PLAcERvILLE, December sth-There is no
abatement in the storm. The rainfall to date is
twenty-five inches. Hangtown creek is boom
ing.
MARYsvILLE, December Sth.-The rainfall in
the twenty-four hours ending at 4 p NJ. todav
was 110 inches, king the seasons total to
date 1852 inches Total to corresponding date
last season. 5.53 inches. The sky is clearing
The Yuba and Feather rivers are slowly rising
but are not high.
ORLAND, December Sth.-The rainfall for the
storm is 1857 inches, making for the season I6 7S
inches. The creeks are very high and water is
standing on the grain fields everywhere. Stony
creek mas run Dank full Tor four days 1t is
higher than for ten years previous This storm
Is the heaviest for many years. The damage
cannot be estimated, but will be slight Three
hundred feet of track near Germantown is
washed out and freight train off the track
GERMANTowN, December Sth We have had
about an inch and half of rain in the last
twenty-four hours. The country is full of water
and the grain lands are covered.
CAYUcos, December Sth.-The heaviest rain
for the season fell to-day. There were no show
ers, but regular southeast storm, flooding the
creeks. The rainfall is 192 inches for the
storm, making u 20 inches for the season. 1t is
still raining.
SANTA MARIA, December Sth.-It commenced
raining again sunday forenoon. The rainfall
for the day was rs of an inch