The morning call., 1891-02-24
UNDER WATER.
Loss Of Life and Property by
Arizona Floods.
The City Of Yuma and a Portion Of the
ella Valley Inundated.
Houses Swept Away and Many Families
Rendered Homeless Railroads Badly
Damaged-Delayed Trains.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.


Yuma, and is five feet under water One
hundred adobe houses were washed away
and 800 people are homeless. Great distress
prevails for want of food, clothing and
shelter. A meeting was held this morning
to organize Relief Committee, and the cit-
zens and Board OF Trade appointed S. S.
Gillespie Treasurer of the committee, and
he was directed to receive contributions
The hool-houSe. churches. convent. res
taurants and all the stores but one are
flooded.
The Yuma Times Office is completely
wrecked.
The railroad bridge crossing the Colorado
escaped much damage.
HOUSES SWEPT AWAY.
GILA BEND (Ariz.) Feb. 23.-The second
suspension of traffic on the Southern Pacific
Railroad in Arizona occurred Saturday
afternoon. Water from the Gla River over
flowed the track at a point about thirty
miles east CT Yuma for distance of four or
five miles, causing considerable damage to
railroad and other property. Salt River,
near Phoenix, rose ten feet. in an hour,
sweeping away many adobe houses. One
thousand people in the valley of the Salt.
River are homeless. The branch railroad
running from Maricopa to Phoenix is COM
pletely washed away and wrecked. The
west-bOund train has been held at this place
since o'clock and there is no Immediate
prospect of moving.
CLoUDBURSr AT SAN CARLOS.
HoLBRooK (Ariz.) Feb. 23.-It is showing
on the San Francisco Mountains and the
snow is two feetdeep. Heavy rains fell all
last night south in the White Mountains
There was a regular cloudburSt at San
Carlos and two and half inches of rain fell
In SIX hours, and SIX inches have fallen
since last Tuesday. The ella River is BOOM
ing and is higher than it was ever known to
be. The Indian farms and bitches are all
destroyed. The agency flour mill is partly
Inundated and its machinery is ruined. The
mill is liable to 90 down stream tonight.
The agency miller, William Cornell, and his
family narrowly escaped from drowning.
His house and contents were washed away
and he had to wade neck deep TO shore with
his wife and babies.
TRAVEL SUSPENDED.
CLIFTON, Feb. 23.-Advices from Solo
monsville say that tile ella Valley is flooded
uDprecedentedly, and that great destruction
Of property is reported. Travel is suspended,
and there has been no mail here for four
days.
Juan Telles was killed Sunday morning
by blast The cliff overhanging the wash
out had been shot to fill in, and the bodies
OF rock were loosened on which Telles
| and two MeXicans were working. when the
| rock fell. The ether two men chung TO the
ropes against the falling mass. 1t was a
hairbreadth escape and terrible to witness
IMMENSE LANDSLIDE.
DUNsNUIR, Feb. 23.-Ihe heavy storm Of
yesterday still continues, but is not so Sc
IL W
miles below here an extensive landslide
blocked the track last night. There are
about ;hree acres from ten to forty feet
feet deep of hillside resting on a layer of
clay, over which il is slowly moving on to
the track. The heavy rain las made
muddy mass of the whole area, and the
lower edge now rests on the track. A
large force is now working 10 clear the
track through this, and II is expected that
the delayed trains Will be able to pass be-
| lore midnight
RIVERS RISING.
MARYsvILLE, Feb. 23.-The rain ceased
last night. The total for the storm is l. so,
making 10.Gi inches for the season, against
| %. Is inches last year. The barometer yes
terday stood % IS inches. 1t is rapidly
rising now The rivers are rising rapidly.
the Yuba stands thirteen feet, and the.
Feather is also high. There is clear weather
to-day.
CORNING, F b. 23.-0a Saturday morning
| it commenced to rain and at night high
wind prevailed. The growth Of grass and
| grain is retarded, there being too much water.
| The rainfall wa' 800 inches.
THUNDER STORMS.
AUBURN, Feb. 23.-There was heavy rain
| al day yesterday and last night From
o'clock TILL 10 last evening We had heavy
and continuous thunderstorm. The closed
| sewer under the City Plaza got clogged up
| where the two main ravines run together,
| and the back water flooded good part of
| the lower portion OF the town. Considerable
| damage Is done. The water in some places
was three feet high on the ground floors.
1t is storming at intervals at present.
RAIN AND SUNSHINE.
MODESTO, Feb. 23.-The rainfall for the
past fUrty-eight hours has been .35 of an
inch. To-day it is clear and warm, with a
gentle west wind.
GONZALES, Feb 23.-It has been blowing
hard and raining lightly for thirty-six hours.
The wind has ceased, but the rain is con-
tinuing. We have had about quarter of
an inch of rainfall to the present time, and
expect big rain tonight
GILRoY, Feb. 23.-Light showers with
clearing warm weather lave prevailed to-
day.. The precipitation on Saturday and
Sunday amounted TO 2A inches. For the
season II inches, against 50 to the same date
last year; inches in 1889 and Is inches in
1883.
HEAVY FALL OF SNOW.
BISHOP, Feb. Drain and snow fell here
| all day Yesterday. The snow, when first
measured, averaged eleven inches in depth,
| the heaviest fall in many years. Owing to
the rain which followed, the soft condition
| of the ground ard the sunshine this MORN
| ing, the ground is already bare in many
| places. All low ground in the valley Is now
| under water.
SIssoN, Feb. 23.-There have been copious
rains during the night, with small hurri-
| cane, blowing down stove-pipes and avn
| ings. 1t resumed showing this morning,
and it still continues. All the trains are
| blocked by slides and washouts, north and
| south. The Northern express is many hours
overdue. being delayed near Tunnel No. g.
Eight feet of snow is on the summit on the
road at Fall River.
BoUNTIFUL CROPS ASSURED.
VIsALIA, Feb. 23.-There has fallen 1. 25
| inches of rain since Saturday night, and it
is still cloudy. Bountiful crops are assured.
| with reasonable showers during March and
| April.
HoLLIsTER, Feb. 23.-Two inches of pre-
| cipitatlon is the amount of the storm thus
| far and it is yet not over The rainfall for
| the season is over six inches. A larger
acreage has been put into grain in San
benito county than In any previous year,
and the same is true of fruit trees ana
| vines. New orchards have been set out i'm
every section, AMI this rain insures their
| raj Id growth.
MERGED, Feb. 23.-The weather is still
unsettled with occasional showers Heavy
| rains III the mountains have caused all of
| the streams to be bank full. The prospects
Tor heavy rains tonight are good
| LATHRoP, Feb. 23.-The total rainfall
! during the last twenty-four hours ending at
O'Clock this morning was 80 of an in oh
ana Tor the season 4.20 inches. At the same
| date last season the fall had been 1870
inches. The prospects are good for con-
tinuance Of the storm tonight.
GALE AT PETALUMA
PETALUMA, Feb. 23.-It has been raining
or showering here since last Saturday night
with prospects OF a continuance. Yesterday
and last night the hardest wind and rain