Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-27

soon broke through the snow, carrying
great loads of it down the stream.
Three snowslides were yesterday re-
ported at Downieville. One of them swept
away Hills arastra, and the buildings of
the Orc quartz mine, slightly injuring S.
D. Hills residence, and causing the re
moval of the family at midnight.
The second came down over the South
Fork road, just above town.
The third was on the East Fork, dam
ming up the river. No lives were lost.
A Chinaman named All Ting, wood
chopper, while returning TO bis cabin last
Thursday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, loaded
with provisions, perished in the snow forty
rods from his door.
All the roads are blockaded, and the
mail and express is carried on snow-shoes.
Two men arrived from Sierra City this
morning and reported a snow. slide at
Loganville, carrying away several houses.
A woman and child were killed and man
nearly suffocated. The child has not yet
been found.
There were three slides at Sierra City day
before yesterday. The first carried the
Sierra Buttes, No. 8, blacksmith shop and
several dwellings down to the river.
The second building at the mouth of
No s tunnel.
The third three dwellings at the upper
end of town. The women and children
had been removed on the previous day
Household goods are stored in tunnels.
Mitchells Hotel, the Methodist Church
and the whole center and lower end of the
village it is feared is in momentary danger
of slide from that side of the mountain,
which is directly under some of the highest
peaks of the Sierra Buttes.
Provisions are very scarce at Sierra City.
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vile last week. The people there are com.
pletely exhausted and don't know where
to flee for safety. There is a general alarm
for all the houses in the town from the
slides of hundreds of feet of loosely
packed snow on the lofty, over-haDging
peaks of the Sierra Buttes. There is no
telegraph communication between Sierra
City and Downieville.
Potatoes are scarce Six head of cattle
we're driven down from Dodson's Ranch
last week, besides those sent to Sierra City.
The mercury to-day at noon was $50, and
it is still showing. The barometer has
been slowly rising for the last three days.
Letters were received from six to nine
days out from San Francisco last week, and
one to-day, nine days from New York.
At P. M. the snowfall continues, and
fears are entertained that if it is followed
by a general rain it would deeply food
the Sacramento valley from the Sierras to
the Pacific.
The mercury is 800 and the barometer
falling, indicating more storm.
Men who arrived from the Young Amer
lea Quartz Mine tonight, report a great
depth of snow. Forty men are working
at the mill, which continues crushing.
Stoves have been put up in No. 9 tunnel,
and all the people are crowding in there
for shelter and safety, as MitchelPs Hotel
and all the adjoining houses are deserted.
Scott's Hotel is crowded to its utmost
capacity. A general belief is that if big
slide comes it will completely overwhelm
and bury the whole of Sierra City. Men
are pressing steadily on snowshoes to
Downieville as fast as possible.
Three small deer were caught at the
South Fork yesterday and brought to town,
two of which are male and one female.
They will be domesticated. Some danger
is apprehended of snow slides at Downie-
vile. Will send more news whenever
practicable.
LATER-The immense snowslide that
carried away No. blacksmith shop shook
Sierra City, especially the brick buildings,
like an earthquake.
If the whole slide had continued as it
started down the mountain the $4,000 res
ldence OF wait hughes, one OF the Dung
America stockholders, and all the adjoin-
ing houses would have been swept into the
river The slide forced the snow for dis
tance of thirty feet into the mouth of No.
tunnel.
Superintendent William James, of the
Sierra Buttes Company, has generously
told the people of Sierra City that all the
provisions of the company were at their
disposal.
Judging by the amount of debris brought
down by the sDowslide that took away No.
8 blacksmith shop and the bridge across
the creek above on the stage road, the
twenty stamp mill of the Sierra Buttes
Company, way up on the side of the mount
ain, at an altitude of $500 feet, must have
been demolished.
The average depth of snow at Downie-
vile tonight at 10 o'clock is abought eight
feet. Prices have advanced on provisions
at Downieville