The record-union., 1891-02-27
'Three-Quarters Of the City is
Now Under Water.
THE REMAINING QUARTER IN I'M
MINENT DANGER.
Inhabitants of the Place Forced to
Seek Refuge In the Penitentiary-
Railroad Offices Washed Away, and
Miles of Track Destroyed-Rain
Falling Throughout California.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oN.

dent Fillmore, of the Southern Pacific,
received a dispatch from Yuma to-day
stating that the town is doomed to de-
struction. Three-quarters of the city is
flooded, and the water is also threatening
the last quarter. The operator closed by
stating that he could not keep his place
another half hour.
The Southern Pacific division head
quarters are swept away, and with them
the ticket and freight offices. The round
houses and machine shops will probably
escape, as they are on high ground. The
1,200 inhabitants of Yuma have taken
refuge in the penitentiary, ON high
ground.
The bridge across the Colorado River,
500 feet long, will be destroyed, as the
water is almost up to it, and is rising
foot an hour.
Yuma lies to the southwest of the bend
OF the ella and Colorado Rivers. To the
northeast OF the city Is the penitentiary
on high ground, and to the northwest is
high mesa. On the sloping sides of both
hills part of the town is built. East of
town there was formerly levee, which
was destroyed by the flood, and instead
OF being rebuilt was replaced by second
one at right angles to the first and in
tended to protect that portion of the town
from the overflow of the Colorado River.
This latter calamity has happened, and
added to this the swollen waters of the
ella River have burst the banks, and,
pouring over the old levee, have met the
Hoods trom the Colorado River, and then
swelling over the new levee have del
uged the high portion of town as well as
sweeping all the lower part.
The track fora distance of twenty miles
east of Yuma has been washed out of
sight, and when the water subsidies it will
take over week to put the track i'll run
ming order. No news is obtainable from
the desert.
ROADS BADLY DAMAGED.
SAN BERNARDINo, Feb. 12.-Additional
particulars regarding the damages by the
storm continue to be received. Cajon
Pass was badly damaged, and it will be
some time before trains get through. The
railroad company are trying to release
the. storm-b bound passengers from the
trains caught between the pass and Bar
stow. The railroad bridge was washed
away, but the bridge over the Mojave,
near the pass, is still safe. The wagon
bridges at Rincon, Auburndale and
Riverside, across the Santa Ana River,
are all out. The pipe line in the Santa
Ana Canyon, furnishing water to Red
lands Hights, is badly washed out.
This city has received no mail from
any quarter since last Sunday. Few
bridges are entirely washed out. but
every bridge in the county this side of
the mountains but the Santa Fe bridge
between this city and Redlands, has been
either badly damaged or washed out, and
repairs are being made rapidly, and
trains will be running again pretty gen
orally in a day or two.
AT Los ANGELES.
Los ANGELES, Feb. 26.-There is no
change in the general situation in this vi
cinity, except that every minute has been
utilized by the railroad people in getting
its tracks in shape. The first train for
San Francisco win probably leave to-
is much worse, and it will probably be
Saturday or Sunday before the line to
Yuma is opened. The Santa Fe is still
badly blocked. The track in the canyon
is covered with dirt, and it viii be some
days before it can be cleared.
But little is known east of San Ber-
nardino. There are one or two trains
somewhere between that place and Bar
stow, but at what point is not known. 1t
will be some days yet before the coast
line to San Diego will be in a passable
condition.
The first mails from the north are ex-
pected tomorrow by the steamer from
San Francisco by way of Redondo. The
local trains are now running.
No further reports of loss of life have
been recorded, and it is now believed that
none others have occurred besides the
four heretofore reported. The loss to
property is not so heavy as at first antici-
pated, but is still considerable.
Reports from Yuma are very discour-
aging. Committees of the Board of
Trade and Chamber of Commerce are
now getting up subscriptions for that
place. There is no suffering in this sec
ton, so far as reported, as a result of the
flood.
SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED.
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26.-Several deaths
have resulted from the flood at Tia
Juana. A Mexican was drowned while
attempting to assist others. William Z.
Scribner, druggist, was in his store
when 1t was swept away by the flood.
The building collapsed and he was
killed.
In Tia Juana there is not building
left standing on its foundation. The Russ
House is the only building not COM
pletely wrecked, and that is badly dam
aged. The main current of the Tia Juana
River now runs through the town.
MILES OF TRACK WASHED AWAY.
REDLANDs, Feb. ga messenger from
Elsinore says that seven miles of railroad
between Elsinore and Perris has been
washed out. The bridge is gone and it
is reported that the road through Teme-
cula Canyon is entirely destroyed.
LOCAL TRAINS MOVING.
PASADENA, Feb. 26.-All the local rail-
way trains are again running, but there
Is no prospect of overland mails for sew
eral days, as over two miles of track on
the Santa Fe, in Cajon Pass, are either
washed out or covered by landslides.
RAIN AGAIN FALLING.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.-The barom-
eter has fallen decidedly all over North
ern California and Nevada, and rain will
probably become general throughout
California. The wind will increase in
force, With dangerous gales off the coast.
The following rainfall is reported for the
past a hours: Red Bluff. % of an inch;
sacramento, .Q of an inch; San Fran
cisco, ID of an inch.
DowNIEVHLE, Feb. 26.-It is still
showing very heavily here. The stages
are all on runners.
PETALUMA, Feb. 26.-It has been rain
ing hard here since l O'Clock this after
noon.
MARYsvILLE, Feb. 2e.-Twenty-eioht
hundredths of an inch of rain fell hero he
tween and O'Clock this afternoon IF
is still raining heavily.
NEVADA, Feb. 26.-It recommended
storming here at dark this evening. both
rain and snow falling. 1t is showing
hard higher up in the mountains.
CHICO. Feb. 26.-Rain has set in agnin.
It is feared much damage will be done, if
it lasts long, as the Sacramento River is
now very high.
MODESTO, Feb. 26.-The rainfall for the