The morning call., 1895-01-24

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storm has abated the waters continue to
cut off the town from the rest OF the world
1t was reported here tonight that the big
wagon bridge which withstood the terrible
flood of 1890 had been carried away by the
overlooking Russian River As we can get
no word by telephone, mail or otherwise
full particulars cannot be obtained. 1t Is
known, however, that the Russian River
is higher than was ever known III its recent
history. Water reached clear up to the new
Methodist Church, on Mill street, surround
ing five houses belonging to John Bachel
der, Guidotti's restaurant and boarding
house and the houses of r. Starrett, ]. Don
nelly, 0. Wescott and six others. Fouro one
story houses occupied by laboring men
were raised up from their foundations and
carried down the stream. Thousands of
feet of lumber and hundreds of cords of
wood have been lost in the rushing stream.
The Donahue Railroad has been very
seriously damaged between Guerneviile
and Forestville, and it will require an out
lay of many thousands of dollars to put it
in condition to travel over.
In many places the track swung oil the
grade and is many rods out of place, 1t is
hard to estimate the amount of damage
done, but it will aggregate many thousands
of dollars in the town alone. No lives
have been lost SO far as known, as people
whose homes were ruined took warning
and made their escape, many saving some
of their household articles. 1t will be
many days before travel will be resumed
between here and Guerneville even by team.
WOODLAND, Jan. 23.-Cache Creek was
higher to-day than ever before, and the
break in the railroad this side of the creek
is no less than two miles in length. The
rails and ties were lodged against fences
and swept into adjoining fields. On the
Knights Landing branch the road is
washed out in several places. 1t will be
two or three days before trains can run
over the road between Woodland and Yolo,
and longer than that before the Knights
Landing branch can be used
An enormous volume of water came
down Cache Creek yesterday. The levee
broke on both sides and the water spread
over vast area of country. Many of the
farms northwest of town were flooded, and
on some of them the water was three or
four feet deep. Knights Landing is sur
rounded by perfect sea of water.
The river now stands within one foot
four inches of high water mark and it is
still rising. The food water from the tule
basins on both sides of the river is coming
down in increased volume, and the high
land on the Fair ranch will soon be COW
cred. A cross levee near the Langenour
place, which protects 5000 acres of re-
claimed land broke, and the district was
flooded. The principal sufferers are Messrs.
Collier, Roseberry, Provost, Beck, John
son, Simmons Brothers, Johann and
Lefever. Over six hundred acres of G.
Wright's farm are covered with water. All
the back lots of Knights Landing are now
flooded. All the river farmers must now
depend upon the summer crops that they
can plant after the floods subside.
AT Winters no further damage to the
county bridge is reported. Water is stand
ing in a great many orchards in this dis
trict, and if the weather continues warm
while the water is standing around the
trees great damage will result. At Capay
Cache Greek the water was ten inches
higher than ever before The new Cache
Creek bridge was considerably damaged by
being struck by a floating tree. About
800 feet of the grade of the north approach
gas been washed away. The bridges on
the county road between Yolo and Blacks
were swept away by the freshet. The
water is still running over the top of the
bridges between Blacks and Knights Land
ing, and there are places in the road where
the water is deep enough to swim horses.
WOODLAND, Jan. %. DIR. Lawhead and
Bert Armstrong came near losing their
lives yesterday while attempting to drive
in from North Yolo. They encountered a
strong current of water in the county road.
The buggy was capsized and the men were
compelled to swim. DR.. Lawhead was
saved by Roy Woodward, who was OH
horseback, and who took the doctor up be-
hind him. Armstrong swan to shallow
water, more than hundred yards away
WOODLAND, Jan. pa Rumsev special
to the Democrat says that the bridge over
the Cache Creek, near this place, was
swept away by the food at $40 o'clock
yesterday. The water was higher than
ever before known by the Oldest inhabi-
tants. The rainfall for the present storm
has been 5.65 inches and for the season,
1857 inches. The weather to-day was de-
Iightful with not a cloud in sight
RENO, New, Jan. 23.-Last night was
wild one in the mountains and the snow
drifted so badly that the train due from
the west at 8;15 this morning will not get
through before II o'clock tonight 1t is
stuck in the snow somewhere between
Gold Run and Summit.