Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-05
ABOUT THE WEATHER.
The Overland Mails Detained-The Trains
Blocked by Snow.

Angeles, except to Redonda, a small town
twenty-seven and half miles south of Los
Angeles. Rain fell at the latter place all
day yesterday and last night without cessa'
ton, and but little work can be done to re-
pair tie damage that has occurred.
The train from this city due at Los Ange-
les at 4:15 O'Clock yesterday afternoon, had
not reached that city at late hour this
morning.
All of the overland trains are delayed
and no information can be given as tC
when they will arrive In the northern
portion of the State the Oregon train, No
IS, is blockaded at Sisson's by snow sixteer
feet deep.
The overland trains that left here Thurs
day and Friday nights last at s o'clock art
blocksded in the vicinity of Reno, New
The trains due in this city on Thursday
and Friday at 9:45 A. NJ, respective, canno
get through. One of them lies at Reno
and the other this side of it. The snow
plows are kept busily at work, and 1t has
been found that little Roadway can be
made in getting through the tightly packed
mass. In places where it has not had time
to pack solid the plows made rapid head
way. The blackboard at the postoffice in
forms persons that Arrival of overland
mail is indefinite"
Los ANGELES, January 4th.-It has been
raining here all day and is raining now
midnight. The river has been at a stand
still until IL P. NJ, when it began rising
AS yet no great damage is reported. The
Santa Fe published notice that no trains
will be run over that line to San Bernar.
dino via Pasadena until next week. The
trains will run over the Southern route vis
Santa Ana and Riverside. Arrangements
are perfected for transfer of the Santa Fe
passengers by the way of Mojave from Bar.
stow to this city.
The surf line to San Diego was consid.
cred shaky yesterday, and tie trains are
delayed by landslide near Capistrano
1t is feared, when the water is falling, great
damage will result.
A transfer of passengers, mail and ex-
press was made at Granite, on the Southern
Pacific, where the crib work had been
washed away. A pile-driver from the Santa
Ana branch was brought up and repaired
the break to-day and the Yuma division is
now open.
The Santa Ana branch will be ready fol
traffic in day or two.
SAN BERNARDINo, January 4th-Rain
fell all of last night and frequent showers
to-day, with good indications Of keeping al
it tonight. The railroads in Southern Cal.
ifornia are in bad condition. All the work
done since last storm is in danger of going
out again. The roadbeds are all soft, and
this rain washes out the cribbing every.
where.
The officials at division headquarters were
up nearly all night hard at work. The
bridge over Lyle Greek on the Los An
geles Branch is threatened, and fifty work
men from the shops are trying to prevent
its destruction. The Santa Fe sent two
trains to Los Angeles, via Riverside and
Orange. Yesterdays east-bound overland
is tied up here and two west-bound over
lands are tied up at Bar,tow. The Csjon
Pass is blockaded, the cuts are full of mud
and the roads washed out again in nearly
every place injured before. The Southern
Pacific overland from the east arrived &C.
night and one left Los Angeles for the east
this evening, The traffic between Cotton
and Los Angeles on the Southern Pacific
is not delayed.
The Redlands motor road is not running
to-day. The bridge over the Santa Ana is
damaged.
The damage of this storm will equal that
of the previous one. Information from
the mountains north of here state that II
inches of rain had fallen there this season
to date
SHASTA, January 4th.-It has been snow
ing here all day, being he second snow
storm for the past week It's showing
very hard on Trinity Mountain, tstween
this place and WeayerVilie, the snow Seing
sixteen feet deep at Dead wood lust over
TIE Shasta and Trinity boundary line.
The stage coach which was abandoned
on the summit at the beginning of the
storm, is now buried out of sight in the
snow, and the mail is carried over the
mountains on sleighs.
CHICO, January 4th-It was pleasant to-
day until noon, when rain commenced.
Later in the afternoon it turned into light
snow, but melted as it fell. Everybody is
tired of wet weather.
ORLAND, January 4th.-About half an
inch of snow fell this morning. The tenn
perature is $50.
MENDccINo, January 4th.-The storm
still continues, with rain at intervals. The
ground is covered with snow, which fell
last night and this morning. 1t is showing
now. This is the severest snow storm ever
experienced in this section. The wind is
southeast. The rainfall for the season is
80 81 inches. Friday noon the roads were
almost impossible.
UKIAH, January 4th.-Five inches of
snow fell in Ukiah last night and to day.
1t is showing now, with prospects of a
heavy fall tonight.
HEALDsBURG, January 4th. 1t began
showing here at daylight this morning, and
about two inches have fallen. The hills
and valleys are white with snow.
ST. HELENA, January 4,h.-ThIs winter
has so far been the most severe ever known
in Napa county. At st. Helena it has
rained almost without abating for over two
months. Last night it commenced snow
ing, and to-day fur inches has fallen.
Men, women and children have been out
snow balliDg all day and sport has taken
the place of business. Farmers and vine
yardists are anxiously awaiting a few
weeks of clear weather that they may be
enabled to work in the fields. The rainfall
for the season to date is 1872 inches.
NAPA, January 4th.-This afternoon for
half an hour snow fell heavily, melting as
fast as it fell, however, on account of the
very wet ground. Snow here is of very
rare occurrence. 1t is now clear and cold.
SoNoNA, January 4th.-Snow is falling at
10 A. NJ, thick and fast, covering the streets
and housetops.
SANTA Rosa, January 4th.-Last night
snow fell and this morning. Ice has laid
on the ground all day. The rain has been
mixed with snow and hail. The foothills
are covered with snow. To night it is very
cold ard the indications are for snow
Forty hundredths of an inch of rain fell.
PETALUMA, January 4th.-There was an
fall of snow on the noun
tains and foothills to-day. The former re-
port the depth in some places from one
foot to Is inches. The rainfall continues,
making 10 inches for the present storm,
and over % inches for the season. The
weather is exceedingly cold and no pros
poets of its discoptinuance.
MERGED, January h.-F'ifty-three hun
dredths of an inch of rain fell last night
For the season the fall has been II inches.
So far as heard from little damage has been
done by the overflow. The weather is
cloudy. The wind i, southeast. The
snow lies down on the foothills.
PORTLAND, OREGON.
The Steamer Douglass Dearborn Cap
sized Off the Coast.
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