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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-25
Clear to Cascade.
wATsRY WINTERS.
The Present One Has Been Exceeded But
Four Times in Forty Years.

Four Times in Forty Years.
The rainfall yesterday, according to the
reports of Signal Observer Ba-wick, up to
5 o'clock in the evening was IA of an inch,
making for this month 24 inches, and for
the season 1928 inches, as against e61
inches to a corresponding date last year.
To show that the present total rainfall of
% inches to date is an unusual occurrence,
the records were searched from which is
given the rainfall for each season to Feb
ruary LIST, when it exceeded 20 inches. and
it will be seen that upon but four occasions
in the past forty years has that of the
present one been exceeded. If this weather
continues to the 1st of next month (Febru-
ary), then this season will walk of with
the cake of triumphal success. The records
show as follows: Season of 1928, to
February 1st, 22.40 inches; season Of
1S6l-62, to February 1st. % So inches;
season of 1S67-6S, to February 1st, % 10
inches; season of 1856, 10 February 1st,
% OF inches; season of iS89-90 (present
one}. to January oath, 5 P NJ, % % inches.
The barometer tell quite rapidly yester.
day. having read 30 96 6iuches at 5 A N and
but 20. 80 inches at 5 Pm. The wind. was
brisk to high, from the the southeast, reach
ing maximum velocity on several occa-
sions of 80 miles per hour, aud continu-
GUS record of twenty to twenty. four miles
during the past thirty-six hours.
The storm center appears to haveslipped
awav from the mouth of the Columbia
river, and is heading this way, as there was
for the twenty. four hours ending at A. N.
yesterday 04 inches of rain al Roseburg,
Or, and about an inch and hall at Red
Bluff, with gale of wind blowing at the
latter place reaching at times forty miles
per hour. This, of course, must mean 3
tremendous snowfall in the Siskiyou
mountains, and as the storm progresses
southeastward this heavy precipitation will
cover the Sierra Nevada and once more fill
railroad cuts and the mountain canyons.
The temperature has grown several de-
grees warmer. the highest being 523 yester.
day and the lowest 44o. The temperature
at 5 A. NJ. and P. NJ. was 49, and 500
respectively. The highest and lowest tenn.
perature one year ago yesterday was 60' anc
$40, ard one year ago to-day 81 ano
$40, with cloudless sky and continuous
sunshiny weather.
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ing and blowing hard. with no pros.

raining and blowing hard, with no pros
pect of a let up.
You will have to take measures TO cope
with very high water all along the Sacra-
mento river in a day or two.
LATER.-Our train. which is on lis way
back to Redding, is ordered to be held
here as there is washout in the track at
Hooker's, twelve miles up towards Red
ding, so there will be no night train to
Sacramento unless the break is repaired.
The road is reported open to Sacramento
via Marysville, and if it holds, the passen-
gers will go down on the morning train.
There is another wasbout near Maxwell,
in Colusa county. The river is rapidly
rising here, and great concern is manifested
in behalf of the people living along the
river on the low lands.
If q break should occur now between
here and Sacramento, on the Marysville
Division, there is no telling when we will
be able TO get out. We would be blocked
as effectually as if we were in the snow,
but we can get food, at least, without diff
Guilty.
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SITUATION AT TRUcKEE.
Engineer Garcia Subjected to a Practical
,Joke-No Accidents.

UOke-NO
TRUcKEE, January 24th.-This has been
the most eventful blockade that the rail-
road company has experienced on the Sac
ramento and Truckee division since the
road was completed. This is now nine
days since Truckee has been shut out from
the rest of the world, and even telegraph
news has to be sent to San Francisco via
Ogden, while RECORD UNION since jan
uary 18th would be luxury, and quite
lively bidding could be had by holding it
up at auction.
There is scarcity of potatoes, and there
is danger of famine on this class OF yege-
tables. Dealers refuse to sell only lim-
tied amount to each customer, as they re-
ceive their supply from Reno. 1t is pro-
posed TO run a potato train from there to
supply the demand.
The butchers have beef on hand only for
about five days. The slaughter. houses are
located about half mile from town, and
il is impossible to break a road to them.
While the Truckeeites are not deprived of
the necessities of life, yet they begin to re-
alize what a forlorn hope stared the Dom
ner party in the face in the winter of
1916 AZ, when they perished within three
miles from this town.
The ice companies are heavy losers by
the storm. Previous to this storm most OF
the companies had from ten to twelve
inches of ice on their ponds, and now,
with from seven TO eight feet OF snow coy
ering it, it requires large expenditure OF
money to remove ii, with considerable risk
of losing the crop after all.
In all the blockades of any importance
accidents have been frequent, but as get the
present one has proved an exception.
Many very narrow escapes have been met
with but they have been very lucky IN
only receiving scares instead Of broken
bones.
Tuesday morning eight engines with a
plow started for Reno, and every engineer
started out with determination backed by
pleutv of grit to lei nothing in the way OF
snow banks defeat their purpose. They put
on all their steam at Truckee, and there
was nothing before their vision but an I'M
mense cloud of flying particles OF snow, as
| the plow cut its way along the track, and
| it was desperate ride as they tore along
| blindly over the rails.
In the first engine the windows on the
engineers side were crushed in, and the
| snow. as though crazed for chance to de.
| stroy everything in its path, poured through
| the broken sash.
| Engineer Garcia was outHankec, ana ne
| was compelled to whistle down brakes
/ 1t was answered by the second engine by
| nof brakes, and re-echoed by the othel
six engines, aud instead of decreasing their
speed the drivers doubled their revolutions
| The snow came pouring in harder thar
ever, and the throttle was fast disappear
| ing from sight. The snow in front of then
was now behind them, and snow all arouuS
them.
/ When the engineers were satisfied tina
Garcia understood and realized the pleas
ure of being engineer on the front sngin
they slowed up. When Garcia was founs
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Sarah ]. Beach, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Matti
Whiteside and daughter, Reno, New; W
J. Dang, Carson, New; D. A. Holmes Wat
sonville, Mich; Mrs Mary E. Bice and son
Kansas City, No, and Mary Kujak, RocE
Spring Wyo.
Following are the train men Conductor
NJ. V. Murray; brakemen, j. 7. Costello
and E. f. Samuel; engineers, W. Dorland
S. Coleman and NJ Suite; baggage man
A. L. McConville; express messenger, N
Young.
WATCHING THE SHEDS.
One Of the busiest men at this place al
the present time is j. A. Sinnott, foreman
of the Bridge and Building Department Of
the Southern Pacific, who has 1000 men
here working like Troians to keep the fall
ing and drifting snow of the tops of the
sheds, and also seeing that they are suf-
ficiently braeed.
D. r. Davis, General Pacific Coast Fore
man of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, is here and has thirty men in
his employ, who are travelling on snow
shoes along the line, carefully guarding the
wires, which. by the way, are in excellent
working order at present.
Up 10 this wiring an unusually heavy
snow-storm is prevailing here and where
no drifts have occurred the depth of the
snow is sixteen feet.
The snow is up against the houses to a
depth of twenty-five feet, and every few
hours it has to be shoveled away from the
windows in order to let light in
THIRTY SEVEN FEET OF SNOW.
The snowfall for the season, according to
the register kept here, is thirty-seyen feet
This afternoon it was drifting on the
mountain sides badly, and an attempt to
travel on snow. shoes would have been
dangerous and impractical.
George w. Trenson, an old resident in
the upper region of the Sierras, and who
has been a resident here for thirty. seven
years, said to your correspondent to-day:
"We folks used to point to the heavy snow
fall of 1852 and comment on it when ques-
tions of big snowfalls were brought into
conversation, but I tell you what, the rec
ord has been knocked out, and hereafter
we will have to take 1890 as the date, if we
want to talk about snow.storms"
Incidental to the trip of your reporters
from Blue Canyon, it might be said that at
the latter place the fall of snow measures
twenty feet. Nearly every house in the
place is buried, as is the case, too, at Cisco.
The residences of G. L. Sporm, Fred Wal
ter S. a. Hern and Ira Avery are so COM
pletely hidden that one would not notice
them as he passed by, The snow is on a
level with the roofs.
AT this point some half a dozen railroad
men are sick, and endeavors are being
made to get doctor here as speedily as
possible.
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sTILL LEADING.

The "Record- Union" Corps Sends Some
More Exclusive Dispatches.
From the RECORD USIoS Special Correspondents.
CISCO, January 24th.-We are still in the
lead, as we have been since the race for
news began.
Fifteen more miles of travel to-day and
your correspondents are at .Ifsco-nearly
ten miles further up 'the hill' in advance
of the foremost of the other newspaper re-
porters. Some of the latter are nearly TWEEN
ty miles behind US. The RECORD UNION
men are the first TO reach the blocked east
bound train al this place. Your standard
bearers started early this morning from
Blue Canyon, and Emigrant Gap was
reached after aye-mile walk through the
snow, with a binding snow-storm preyaii-
ing all the time, and the trail entirely OBJ
liberated in places where the snow had
drifted.
Immense banks of snow stood in perpen-
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SITUATION AT HEALpsBuRG.
Many Families Rendered Homeless
Orchards Submerged.

HEA1pBURe, January 24th.-OverS 8 inches
of rain has fallen for the storm, making a
total of 90 inches for the season. Russian
river is higher to-day than ever known
here. Ii has overhowed its banks and Gov
cred over 10000 acres of the Russian River
valley.
Several houses near the river have been
washed away, and hundreds of horses are
standing in a sea Of water. Many fine
orchards are entirely submerged
Relief parties have been out all day res
cuing people from their homes. Regular
trains are delayed on account of the wash
cut near this city. Ii is reported that the
Alexander valley bridge, the longest bridge
in this county, has been swept away
The rain is still coming down in torrents
and fear is entertained of great damage to-
| night
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NAPA FLOODED.
The Lower Part of the Town Traversed
Only With Boats.

NAPA, January 24th.-Rain is still falling.
The southern portion of the city is flooded,
the water at O'Clock this afternoon being
only one foot lower than at the time of the
great food in the spring of 1881. The
water is two feet deep in the buildings OF
the Sawyer Tanning Company. Connec-
ton of the town with the depot is cut off.
This afternoon the train stopped at the
race-track, one mile south of town, and the
passengers, were then placed in carriages
and driven to the depot. Thetrack between
these points is under water and the passen-
gers were afraid to stay on the train.
The track is overfowed near Suscol, but
the train got through. No train from San
Francisco this evening. The train is now
at South Vallejo.
A washout is reported on the track near
Oakyille. Spanishtown and Chinatown
is sea, with the buildings all standing yet.
1t is feared the Third-street bridge, an cid
structure, will DE carried away. The lower
part OF town is traversed only by boats.
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he was at his post of duty, but all that wa
visible was his head. He was nearl,
showed under.
The passengers are now looking at thei
situation with more composure, and are
generally making the best Of it.
The photographer has taken picture!
during the blockade and is respiDg har
vest on the sale of them among the passen.
gers. They are buying them as souvenirs
The rotary plow, which was expected tc
cut through all distractions to an open
road, met with an accident. She broke
her eccentric, by which is necessitated an.
other delay of twelve hours, as another key
will have to be made.
The Cyclone plow, which is on its way
| from Ogden, will have to plow her way on
the Salt Lake division, as the cuts made by
| the old plow are not wide enough to per-
nit her to travel. She is expected in
| Truekee by tonight or tomorrow. lndi-
cations are for plenty more snow.
CONDITION LAST NIGHT.
TRUcKEE, January 24th.-It has been
drifting heavy all day. The rotary plow
Alta for Blue Canyon, reaching Blue Canyon
at 1910 where it has been turned and sent
back to Alta.
No. 4 stationed at Blue Canyon, will fol-
low il down. They intend transferring the
passengers on delayed No. and sending
them back to Sacramento to await the open
ing of the road.
The road from Cascade East is clear. The
Cyclone will not be able 10 reach here to-
morrow, as a wreck has happened about
three miles east of Reno. The train of
combinations got stuck in the snow, and
the engine was sent from Reno to release
them, but before reaching it it was also
blocked.
The five engines and the plow that were
running from Truckee to Reno were sent
to the rescue. They undertook to push the
train out of its position and as the en-
right road, but soon after crash was
heard, and to their dismay they discovered
the cars were lifted high in the air, and the
noise made was the cars breaking in halves.
Out of train of thirty-three cars twenty
two were badly wrecked. The snow is
several feet deep, and together with the
wrecked cars it will require couple of
days to clear the track.
TRUckEE, January 24th.-Late tonight
the situation is not very hopeful. 1t is
showing hard, and the wind is drifting it
at fearful rate over the track that has
been cleared. The ploHs are kept con-
stautly running, and it will require very
energetic work to keep the track clear to
the summit.
Tonight the third snowshed is begin
ming to show signs of weakening on &C.
count of the heavy weight of snow. The
large timbers are cracking, andit is becom-
ing very dangerous to pass through. Snow
shoyelers cannot be hired to undertake the
job of shoveling it of.
When the Directors passed over the rosd
last summer they recommended the re-
moval of the snowsheds, and such sheds as
were destroyed by fire were not rebuilt.
At Cascade they lost about two miles of
shedding that they never replaced. Had
they expended few thousand dollars in
rebuilding there, no doubt they would
have saved the enormous expense that has
been occasioned by the blockade. At Cas-
cade the snow is the deepest, being from 20
to 25 feet
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MOVING WESTWARD.
Two Trains Consolidated and Headed
for Sacramento.


for Sacramento.
ALTA, January 24,h. = After showing
hard nearly all day, it began to rain here
this afternoon and still continues. Inform
alton has been received here that it is rain
ing as far east as Blue Canyon tonight,
and as it is growing warmer at Cisco and
other places still further east, the prospects
are that the rain will in the course of few
hours reach pretty well all over the snow
belt. The result has been to melt much of
the snow, particularly those deposits and
drifts which were thrown upon the track
after the rotary plow passed through yes
terday The track is now clear as far east
as Cascade, where the mile and half strip
left uncovered by the burning of the snow
sheds is encountered. 1t will not
take long to clear this. and then
the road is clear throughout. West
bound passenger train No. 4, which has
been delayed for ten days at Blue Canyon,
received orders this evening to move west
to Shady Run and there receive the passen-
gerssand mail on ast-bound train No. 8,
which has been delayed at that point. The
latter's passengers will be taken to Sacra-
mento and there their tickets changed, and
they will be sent East over the Southern
route. After the transfer was made the
train proceeded westward slowly, and ar
rived at this place at $50 o'clock. After a
short stop she resumed her journey for
Sacramento, and with no mishaps ought TO
arrive there about 1 A. NJ.
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Melting the Snow.

SrocKrox. January 24th.-Rain fell in
torrents to-day. Total for the month 30
inches. For the season, II 81 inches. Cor
responding period last year 81 inches;
Reports from the mountains east of here
contain the intelligence that heavy rains
prevail, and that the snow low down IN
the mountains is melting. High water
NAV be looked for in the streams.
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DowNPouR AT SHASTA.
Four and Quarter Inches in Twenty
four Hours.

1our Hours.
SHASTA, January 24-h.-Rain began fall
ing at this point last Wednesday afternoon,
at which time there was from twelve 10
twenty inches OF snow on the ground,
while it was much deeper on the hills near
by 1t has continued to rain very hard
ever since, accompanied by strong south
east gale.
The Sacramentor river and all the streams
are very high and rising very fast. -Four
and quarter inches of rain has fallen dur
ing the past twenty-four hours, making the
total rainfall for the season, lilo inches.
Stage and telegraph communication
north of this place, on the Trinity route, is
still cut of.
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Kansas raised S4,0oO,ooO bushels Of
wheat this year. If made into bread,
reckoning bushel to sixty pounds Of -four,
it would give each man, woman and child
in the United States thirty-four two-pound
loayes OF bread.
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sigh waters in Santa CLARA.

SAN JOSH. January 24sh.-The storm be-
gan Yesterday and has continued without
ceasing. The water courses in the county
are running full and rising rapidly. Los
Gatos creek has risen several feet ID few
hours. The bridge across Coyote creek at
TavIor street has lost its abutments and it
Is feared other bridges may go before the
storm is over.
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Preparing for a Flood.

RED BLUFF. January 24th.-The river
now & P. ny has reached the 81 foot mark,
and is. still rising. The Sierra Lumber
Company has removed all their live stock
from the east side to safe quarters.
Red Bluff people living near by are NOV
ing to,this side.
The prediction by the Signal Officer, that
the greatest flood since 1861 will occur, is
generally believed By all the people The
Thermometer is rising and the barometer
lowering, and the rains continue warm
and hard.
A railroad washout is reported at Hooker
station. and the south-bound Redding train
| is tied up here in consequence of wash
| out near Germantown.
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Tehama Doomt

TEHAMA, January 24th.-The river has
been steadily rising here all day, and is
now sixteen feet above the low water point
and still rising. Elder creek, two miles
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The Blockade Completely Broken.

BLUE CANYON, January 24th.-It has
been showing and blowing all day until 8
P. NJ, when ii turned into rain. 1t is now
raining hard The rotary plow left here at
3 P. NJ with the delayed No. 4 following
close behind. The road is now open all
the way through excepting half-hour's s
work by the rotary at the Cascade break in
the sheds.
Clear to Cascade.
TowLEs, January 24th.-It is raining
hard and the wind is south. The road is
open to Cascade. The east-bound passen-
gers on train No. are transferring to the
west bound to return to Sacramento.
He! for Sacramento.
TowLEs, January 24th-At 9 o'clock P.
NJ. train No. passed here with all the
transfers and three sleepers of train No. 3,
moving West.
Rain Moving East.
Cisco, January 24th.-It is still showing
here, but the thermometer is rising, indi-
eating warmer weather, and very probably
rain,
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dicular walls on both sides Of the track and
at Blue Canyon, before our start was made,
the shovelers were to be seen in tiers on the
bank, throwing the snow up fully forty feet
higher.
Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-06-21
QUEER BIBLE BLuNDERS.
Peculiar Errors In Various Editions of the
Holy Scriptures.
Tnr nRREcHrs BIBLE.

THE BREECHEs BIBLE.
"fhen tho eies OF them both were
opened, and they knew that they were
naked, and they sewed figge leaves TO.
gother and made themselves Breeches. :"
Gen. Ill, T. Printed in 1900.
THE BUG BlBLE.
$50 that thou shall not nede TO be
afraid for any Bngges by nighte, nor for
the arrow that fiyeth by day" Ps. xci.,
5. Printed in l56l
THE TnEACLE HIBLE.
"Is there no trcacle at Gilead? is there
no physician there?" Jer viii, -
Printed in 1865
TIE RosiN BIBLE.
"ls there no rosin In Gilcad? Il there
no physician there?" Jor. viii, -.
Printed In 1909
TIM fLAGE-NAKFRs' RiBLE.
''Blessed are the place-makers. for
they shall be called the children OF
God. Mat. y. 0. Printed in 1912.
Tng VINEGAR BlBLE.
"rhe Parable Of the Vinegar" instead
OF "'rhp Parable Of the Vineyard. ap.
pears in the chapter heading OF Luke
Xxx. in an oxford edition Of the author.
lied version which was published in l7l7.
THE WICKED BIBLE.
This extraordinary name was given
10 an edition of the authorized Bible,
printed in London by Robert Barker
and Martin Lucas in 1881. The mega.
tive was left out of the Seventh Com.
maEdment. and William Kilburne, wri.
tirg in 1853, says that owing to the zeal
OF DIR. Usher the printer was fined e, o0C
or $50
the EARs-To.EARs BIBLE.
"Who hath ears 20 ear. let him hear.
Matthew xiii, 81. Printed in 1910.
THE sTASpING-FIsuEs BIBiE.
"And it shall come to pass that the
fishes will stand upon it, etc. Eek.
Xvii, 10. Printed in ls06
THE DISCHARGE BIBLE.
Il discharge thee before God.".-l
Tim, v, 81. Printed in 1903.
THE wGFE-HArER BIBLE.
''If any man come To me, and hate mo-
his father, yea, and his owl
wife also, ete.-Luke xiv. 26. Printed
in 1910.
REBEKAu's-eAMEI.s nfRLE.
'Aud Rebekah arose. and her camels.
Genesis xiv, Gl. Printed In 1873.
TO REMArS nfBLE.
"Persecuted him that was born after
the spirit 70 remain, even so 1t Is now .
--6al. w., ~.