The record-union., 1894-02-20

estimated.
Should the storm abate within the next
few days the damage will be small. Only
about fifty acres opposite the break will
be seriously injured by debris. This
land, with Improvements, is valued at
81 600 per acre.
AT this writing the overflow is opposite
Wheatland and the low streets are being
covered.
The passengers of the Red Bluff train
were terried over the break above town
at o'clock.
HEAVY RAINFALL AT AUBURN.
AUBURN. Feb. l9.-This has been the
hardest storm in years IN this section.
over three inches of rain 1ell last night
and to-day.
BOOMING RIVERS.
The Cosumnes Higher Than Ever-Sev-
eral FAMILIES Threatened.
The terrible rainstorm in the noun
tains has swollen all the smaller streams
to dangerous proportions. The Costumes
was higher last night than ever before
known, and at a late hour was threaten
ing destruction to buildings and other
improvements over the bottom lands.
Early in the evening telephone mes
sage to the RECORD UNION from Dr. Nc
Kee at Elk Grove stated that the river
was rising at the rate Of one foot an hour,
and was then within two feet of the top
of its banks. Deer Creek had come down
with a rush, and its waters uniting with
those Of the Costumes caused the latter
to rise with unprecedented rapidity.
1t was feared the Slough House would
have several feet of water in it before
morning unless the ieVee below there
should break and free the imprisoned
waters.
That neigborhood is thickly settled and
the land highly improved, and the break
ing OF the leVee would cause great loss to
the farmers.
At McCOnnelPs, lower down, the river
was then up to the bed of the railroad
bridge, and any additional rise it was
thought would mean danger.
LATER-THE SITUATION SERIOUS.
About 10 o'clock the RECoRD-UNION Sc
cured telephonic communication with
Postmaster GivenS at the Slough House
Mr.. GiVenS said the water was then six
feet higher than the first floor of the
house where himself and family We're
and was being kept out only by small
leVee that was liable to go at any minute.
Even then the water was running over
1t IN some places, but the residents of
that vicinity were out in the peIting
storm trying to save it from breaking, III
the hope that ii might give way farther
down the stream and thus relieve the
pressure at that point
He said there was no means of escape-
that the rising waters were all around
them, and they had not even boats with
which 10 get out. Several families We're
in that predicament. Matt Toomey had
managed to remove his family before the
situation became so critical. His house
had four feet OF water in it.
Mr.. Briscoe said that if the worst should
come they had hopes that their houses
would stand, but the damage to property
would be very great.
LATER-THE LEvEE BREAKS.
At IL o'clock MIR. Givens telephoned
that the water was still rising, but the
levee had broken at Belcher and Muir
rays. places above Costumes DOstoffice,
The water was several inches higher than
ever before, and a wide stretch of farm
ing land is submerged.
THE AMERICAN RIVER.
A dispatch to the RECORD UNION from
Folsom, received at 8 O'Clock last night.
said:
1.-The American River is rising rapidly,
and will reach higher point than for
years.
UNLESS the storm abates the Mormon
Island bridge will be washed away.
Great fears are entertained for its safety,
as the water was within few feet of its
floor at 5:30 P. NJ"
THE SACRAMENTO.
Up to last night there had been no
marked rise in the Sacramento River at
this point. At sundown it stood at 20
feet inches, but by this morning it will
probably be several feet higher, as the
nigh waters from the American, the up
per Sacramento and the Feather and
Yuba will be here by that time
ALONG THE FEATHER.
A telegram from OrovilIe yesterday af-
ternoon stated that the storm had contin-
ued there for the past thirty-six hours
and the Feather River was rising rapidly.
Men were ut work tearing down fences
and removing animals on the low ground
near the river.
THE STORM IN THIS CITY.
The Weather Bureau reports show the
storm Of yesterday to have been the heav-
lest since the 10Th of last month, when in
twenty-four hours there was measured
30 inches, while yesterday, for the
twenty-four hours ending at p. NJ, the
total amount WAS 2.20 inches The fol-
lowing record gives the dates and rainfall
for twenty-four hours when the amount
reached and exceeded .25 inches:
lS7S-January 10th, l.63 inches; 22d, 1.61
inches. IS79-February 9th, 1.4O inches;
March 9th, l.J7 inches: December 10Th.
Al inches. ISS0-January 9th, /. % in
ches; April 18th, 1.S4 inches; A pril 10th.
Us inches; 2lst, 3.H9 inches; December
I'd. 200 inches; 18th, l.4l inches. ISL
January 18th, 2.66 inches: 30th, l.35 inches;
February Sd. l.72 inches; December 4th.
l.4l inches. 1SS2-March 18th, I.30 in
ches, lSo3-January lst, $50 inches: Feb
ruary 18th, l.6l inches. IoS4-March 9th,
90 inches; April 9Th, l.37 inches; October
18th. I.52 inches: December 17th, l33 in
ches: both, I.32 inches; 23d, .3S inches:
18th. p = inches. 1oS5-November 18th,
SOP inches; 18th, 30 inches; 9th, 1.93 in-
cnes: December 2lst, Z.ol inches; Attn, l.42
inches. ISSj-January 18Th. 1.30 inches;
tebruarv 4th, I.73 inches; 9TH, LIB in
ches. IsSS-January Sd, I.40 inches: No
vember 10th, l.95 inches. ISS9-March
I3tb. rs inches; May 9th, 1.94 inches;
October 22d, l.32 inches. IS90-January
35fh. l.3i inches: February 18th, LIS in
rhes: December 81. 2.G0 inches. 1891
IIal,rrlarv 18th, So inches; sd, 1.26 in
cbes. 1852 November 18th. l.26 inches;
SnIh. 3.Z6 inches; December 9th. l.S6 in
ches. l>93-The greatest precipitation in
twantv-tour hours was but |. Is inches, on
March lIth. lSg4-January 18th, 2.25 in
cbes: February 10th, ,. - inches.
Yhis shows in a record Of seventeen
va,rs that Yesterday was the greatest rain
iall ever before recorded as occurring in
FEBRUARY during any twenty-four hours
precipitation.
The total rainfall for this season is 1856,
as against 1881 inches TO corresponding
date last year.