The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-26
CARRIED LOGS
And powders.
Genoa, NGV, Nearly Destroyed
by a ClOudburSt.
A Wall Of Water Twenty Feet High Swept
Down the Canyons Doing Great Dam
age No Lives Lost.
special to THE MoaSISa CALI

CARSON Nevl July ga thunderstorm
Friday afternoon came uear wlpiRg oul the
mountain town OF Genoa, Douglas County
About 3 o'clock heavy cloud spread over the
sky southwark, and the rain poured down in
torrents. Inside OF an hour 1t was reported that
a cloudburst had taken place near the place
where The big snow-slide occurred some seven
teen years sgo. In a few moments terrible
food OF water came down three separate can
yons sweeping everything beforei 1t. The water
swept down in a solid wall. crested with foam,
and carrying with 1t logs, powders and debris of
all kinds. 1t seemed about twenty feet high,
and as 1t came sweeping down the canyon near
est the town It was Indeed formidable object.
Wien the FIRST alarm of the food was given T.
n. Hansen, w. D. Gray. the people at the Ray
craft Exchange and others in that locality bur
ried the women and children out TO safe quar-
lers. The women hastened down tile streets in
The rain, carrying their babes In their arms.
From the Genoa Canyon the water rushed
down in solid column twenty feet high, carry
ing logs and powders IN Wild confusion. 1t
struck c. n. Dake's undertaking. shop and swept
1t away like toy, lodging 1t 200 yards of In
Gray's fields. The building was turned COM
plelley around, and what was the south wing is
now pointing 10 the north. The door and win
dows on the rear end of the house we're driven In
and the large stock OF collins fioated OF In the
field The building was left tilted up on the rocks
aud drift logs.
The water then made a clean sweep shot from
Snowslide Canyon. leaving the rocks bare and
dashlDg over the base of the mountain. c. w.
Dake saw the water come out, and says that
when the stream from Snowslide Canyon struck
that from Genoa Canyon, carrying the powders
and logs, the water shot up into the air fifty or
sixty feet Logs were washed downth road In
front OF the houses as far as the Gray garden
above the railroad. stack OF hay near the I'M
dertaking-shop was partly swept away and the
remainder is weighed down with tons OF rock
That Dart Of Mr.. Dake's ranch known as the
Audrain place is almost entirely obliterated.
The water from Genoa Canyon, rushing down
with the rocks and logs, swept over Mrs. Ray
crafts fine young orchard. and the potato and
vegetable fields OH the Nimrod place, which was
devastated by The snow. slide of 1882. T. n.
Hansen's pasture lot was covered with immense
powders aud totally ruined. L. Fray is the
heaviest loser OF all, as his large f1ume was en-.
tirey swept away from the mouth OF the Genoa
Canyon TO the mouth OF the Barnes lot. Dozens
of logs, some forty feet long and three feet In
diameter were carried across The road and from
two TO three hundred yards down into field
Rocks and debris cover much OF the finest
meadow and grain land in that section, and a
great deal OF damage is entailed by loss OF
crops. Trays fume cost over $4,000.
AT the north OF the town the damage from the
SchOolhouse Canyon was trifng. The water
rushed out of Martin FIume Canyon. porth OF
Valley Springs, covering the base OF the noun
tain and road 10 such an extent that teams were
com PEELED togo down 10 the tules to get past.
The central part of Genoa entirely escaped the
food, but the entire water supply Of Genoa ls cut
OF, the pipes being broken and the tanks filled
with the ds brls OF washed out. Hon. James