The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-12-27
RAGING RIVERS.
Overlooking Their Banks and Flood
ing Low Lands,
Railroad Trains uemmed in North of
AIarysville-The Sacramento
is Very High.

SIarysville-The Sacramento
is Very High.
The interior Of the State has now had a
soaking the like OF which it had not ex-
perienced in many years. Farmers were
just congratulating themselves on being
able TO get at their winter blowing in
good season when the last storm came on,
and now the most favored Of them viii
be set back for several weeks in their
work, while in many localities it viii be
impossible to plow at all, owing to the
deluge Of water that has inundated 50
many tracts contiguous to the rivers.
The heavy storm of last month had
given the ground such a thorough soak
ing and so raised the rivers that the rain
fall OF the past four or i've days could not
be disposed OF and the floods have run
riot all over the low lying lands.
Not much rain has fallen in the valleys
since Saturday, but the storm main
tanned its fury III the mountains, raising
all the streams to an unprecedented
hight, and il Will be a week or more be-
fore the waters viii materially subside,
even though the storm should now cease.
In the upper Sacramento Valley the
rainfall has been unprecedented in the
same length of time, and reports come
in of freshets and the fiooding of farm
ing lands in all directions. All along the
Sacramento, YuDa, Feather, American
and Costumes Rivers the lOwlands are
under water, while in many instances
towns and villages that for many years
had escaped foundations are now swept
by the muddy waters.
Word was received at the railroad
office in this city yesterday from the tele-
graph-operatOr at Colusa to the effect that
he was standing knee-deep in water
while sending his report, but no particu-
lars Of the flooding Of the town were
then received.
The town of Jacinto, Colusa County,
was also covered with water, as were
various villages and landing places along
the Sacramento, Yuba and Feather
Rivers.
North of Marysville the country was
under water for miles, and railroad traffic
IN that direction was suspended.
Three trains had been cut off by the
treshets in the front and rear-one at
Yuba City, another at Gridley, Butte
County, and the other at Biggs. The
passengers We're, however, transferred
from the trains and forwarded to the
nearest town.
On the west side of the Feather River
the water was running over the leyees
lcdL -NlCOAduS, tDuLtCI 0OQnly, anu Idu
submerged vast sections OF the country,
miles Of railroad track, beside washing
out the leyeeS IN many places.
Near the junction of the Feather and
Sacramento Rivers three miles of railroad
track was under water, and several miles
OF the track OF the OrOYille branch road
near Marysville.
The town Of Gridley was flooded, and
the people had blown up the railroad
embanlkment near there, thinking to OBJ
tain relief thereby, but the Feather River
kept on rising and the excavations in the
railroad grade did not help them.
1t was learned at the railroad Office here
that the Iuba had fallen two feet at noon
yesterday from its highest point, while
the Feather was higher than ever. AS
the chief trouble at Marysville is caused
by the Guba, this was very agreeable
news.
Although no trains could be operated
north OF NarysVille, trains have been
kept running on the Oregon road from
this city by way Of Davisville and Will
lows to Iehama.
Near Nina 2 locomotive yesterday
morning plunged into a washout and had
TO be abandoned. The fireman. named
Shields, and the engineer were slightly
injured by the accident.
Up on the Shasta division of the Oregon
ROAD some delays had occurred in conse-
quence Of landslides, but trains were
running, though not on schedule time.
The road between here and Placerville
also the lines by way of Stockton and
Benlcia, remained in good order yester-
Gay, and trains were moving regularly,
although the water along the California
Pacific, between Washington and Davis
vile, is very high. The absence of wind
however, saved the track from injury.
THE AMERICAN DOOMED.
AS stated in the RECORD UNION yester-
day, the American River rose very rap
idly on Saturday, reaching hight of
forty feet that evening at the Folsom
Prison. The deluge came suddenly and
carried out the remainder of the logs at
the lumber boom, which came down
over the dam at the prison.
The freshet also cut loose the bic scow
mOored at the boom, and it is said to have
been grand and startling sight as the
craft shot out on the crest of the twenty
five-foot wave that rolled over the big
dam.
A telephone message from Warden
Aull yesterday stated that the American
River had fallen twelve feet there and was
still lowering. On Saturday that stream
had left its banks east of Brighton and
flooded the bottom lands almost up to
the railroad track.
A RECORD UNION reporter yesterday
went out along the north levee to its
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found that the water there was not within
ten feet of the top Of the emb2nkment
although backed up by the high water in
the Sacramento, against which the Ameri-
can beat as if in collision with a mighty
wall Of stone.
Striking the Sacramento Rivers swol-
len waters, those OF the American were
rolled backward, forming a crescent
shaped wave and falling in foam and
spray only to be again dashed against the
solid river rushing past.
The reporter employed a Chinaman to
take him in his wagon out to the Ameri-
can River bridge, and found the grade
leading thereto beyond the north levee
several feet under water, but no higher
than Il has been on former occasions.
As the American falls almost as sud
denly as it rises, the probability is that
by tonight it will lie well down within
It's banks, except where backed up near
It's mouth by the Sacramento.
HIGH WATER HERE.
Swollen by the heavy volum es OF