The record-union., 1895-01-22
An Avalanche of Snow Buries the
Track Many Feet Deep.
TRAINS WILL PROBABLY BE DE-
LAYED UNTIL TONIGHT.
The River Was Damned Until 1t Was
Dry Below-NIore Snow on the Road
Above Sisson Than There Was
During the Blockade Five Years
Ago-A Large Force OF Men Put to
Work to Clear the Road.
Special to the REcoRn-UNTox.

Special to the REcoRp-UNToH.
DUNSMUIR, Jan. 2l.-The snowstorm
of yesterday continued till this evening,
and then it changed to rain. Train No.
l6 left EdgeWood at 6 o'clock this morn
ing and got into Sisson this evening,
whore it is held. No. 10 arrived here six
hours late to-day, and is held here.
About noon big avalanche Of snow
came down from the high mountain on
the west OF the river just above Upper
Soda Springs, and buried the track sixty
feet deep under snow, trees, brush and
rocks. 1t started from three miles up
the canyon, where the snow is forty to
fifty feet deep, and carried down every
thing in its path, and crashed into the
river and away, up the other bank, and
damned the river till it ran dry below.
The mass will have to be shoveled out
and much of it loaded on flat cars and
carried away. About 100 men are at work
on 1t tonight, and a special has started
from Red Bluff to pick up all the section
men and hurry them up to work
tonight. The track cannot be
cleared before tomorrow night, and may
be day longer, as other slides are re-
ported.
more snow now on the road above Sisson
than there was in the blockade five years
ago. 1t is eight to ten feet, and from tif-
teen to twenty-five up at Black Butte
summit, where the road runs around the
base OF Mount Shasta.
il LEVEE GIVES WAY.
WOODLAND, jan. 2l.-A special to the
Democrat from Dunnigan says: The
Howell Point levee has at last given way,
n lar
the sacramento Valley is under water.
The body OF land which was protected by
this leYee is situated i'll both YOlO and
COlusa Counties, and under favorable
conditions is regarded as the best wheat
land in the State. The water on Sunday
had not reached TO the top of the levee,
and 1t is presumed that the break is due
to the high wind that prevailed from the
southeast Sunday night.
Many OF the most prominent farmers
in the Stale are interested III the property
which this levee was intended to protect,
The principal sufferers are a. IL. Rose,
ID. " est, Miller Bros, Bower Bros John
McPile. J. c. BedelI and Messrs. Fraser
and b. Alsden. The loss cannot be esti-
mated at this time.
a terrible rain and windstorm is rag
ing, and II it continues as it has begun
during the night, tue flood is likely to
reach higher point than at any time
tNL ibE ILIO SOGSOLl. 1u6I y are grave I6dfS
that railroad communication will be in
terrupted.
NAPA RIVER OUT OF ITS BANKS.
NAPA, Jan. 2l.-Rain has fallen almost
constantly to-day, amounting for the
twelve hours to upwards OF three-fo fourths
OF an inch. The river has steadily risen
until it is now out of its banks, and as the
storm still continues, rear is entertained
that the low portion OF town will be
flooded before morning.
The steamer Zinfandel left her wharf
for san Francisco at t o'clock, but had
not gone over half mile when she
crashed into Wultf's wharf and had
nearly all the paddles on her wheel car
ried away. She will probably have to re-
main there until repairs are made. The
current was so strong she could not be
controlled.