Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-04

CALIFORNIA AND COAST.
A Youth Shot Down in Cold Blood by
a Nan Crazsd With Liquor.
ANOTHER TRAGEDY AT THE BAY.
Mark NJ Herr Murdered in the
Murphy Building by j. F.
Naughton-Etc.
lsPscIAL DISPATCHES TO TEE REcoRD-uNIcH.l
lsRscrAL DISPATCHES TO TEE REooHD-umos.l
HEAVY LAND SLIDES.

| Lots of Trouble.
From REcoRD-UNIoS's Special Correspondent. ]
SIMS, February 3d.-This is the fourth
day that rain has been falling continually
| here and elsewhere along the road, and
there are no signs of its cessation. Rain
fell in torrents at Gibson side track all
last night, and to-day it has been raining
hard and steady all the time. Yesterday
there were hopes that the slide at Tunnel
would be cleared away to-day but when
the shoyelers were brought up to work this
morning they were surprised to find all
the space they had shoveled filled up
again by huge amount of fresh rock and
snow, which had slid down from the top
| of the big hill to the side track, making
the slide larger than it was when they first
went 10 work at it.
The north end of the tunnel is completely
filed up from the new slide that came
down last night. To-day rocks and large
slabs of slate have been rolling down con-
tinuously, and even if the storm would
cease, work trains would not be be able to
get through here for three days at least.
AS long as the rain keeps up as it has to-
day, but little Roadway can be made. The
men can be worked to little advantage
when the rain is falling in torrents and
there is great danger of rocks sliding down
upon them.
To-day the men are engaged in transfer
ring wood and supplies from the work
train on the south side of the tunnel to the
one on the north side. The engines in the
latter outfit are out of fuel, and supplies are
running short at Dunsmuir and the stations
in that vicinity. On account of the end of
the tunnel being filed up, trail had to
be shoveled through the show around the
side of the hill and the freight carried by
the men over half mile.
The engine on the other side will en-
deavor to back up and take the supplies as
far north as the road is clear. The river is
rising with alarming rapidity and is within
| couple of feet of the railroad track at Glib
son. The creeks are full and where the
work train is side-tracked the cars are
standing in water, which is flowing over
the rails to a depth of several inches. In
fact everything appears to be snow or water
and the river is rushing down at amadden-
ing rate, carrying with it large quantity
of driftwood and washing the snow from
the banks on both sides.
Everybody is inquiring about the height
of the river at Sacramento and many
prophecy flood if the rain keeps up as it
has to-day.
The track at Gibson is apt to be washed
away il much more water comes down
from the creeks. AT the slide this after
noon nearly half an acre of dirt and rock
cams down and the three engines had to
back away in hasty manner to avoid be-
ing injured or thrown from the track
This afternoon the work train on north
side of tunnel nine started to back up the
road as far as possible with supplies for
the towns. The RECORD UNION reporter
boarded her. About forty men were taken
to shovel out the slides, and several were
encountered.
AT Blue Cut about two miles south of
Sims, the track was found to be covered
with snow, adobe and rock and the rails
were shifted out of place for thirty or forty
feet. This is one of the worst places on the
road, and the mud keeps sliding faster than
the men can shovel. The color of the
adobe is blush and hence the place is
called Blue Cut.
The men worked at it all the afternoon
to-day, and towards evening returned with
| the train to Tunnel 8.
The RECORD UNION correspondent
walked the rest of the way to Sims, and
several large slides were met with on the
way up. The Dorthbound work trains can
not possibly reach here for several days to
come.
Water is flowing over the track, and
washouts are liable to occur. A train
started south from Dunsmuir this morn
ing, but several slides were struck, and Sec
ton men say it can not be repaired for two
days.
Five and forty-hundredths inches of rain
fell here for the twenty-four hours ending
at O'Clock this morning.