The record-union., 1896-01-21
THE STORM CEASES AT LAST.
But the Streams Will Remain High for
Several Days Yet.
Trains on the Oregon Road Are Tenn
porarily Held Here and at
Red Bluff.


the wind began to rise. and an hour
later it was blowing from the southeast
at the rate of forty miles an hour, with
occasional gusts of even greater speed.
All the while the rain came down IN
torrents, and the latter half Of the night
was about as wild as the oldest inhab-
| liant of this section has ever expert
enced.
| No damage was done in or about the
city by the gale, but some good re-
suited. An old and half-burned struct-
ure at Sixth and N streets, owned by
| City Trustee Devine. collapsed and was
strewn over the lot and adjacent side
walk. It's demolition was good thing,
and fortunately it occurred at an hour
when no ones life was endangered.
The heavy rain caused caving-in of
the roadway at Tenth and o streets,
where it looked yesterday as If the
bottom had dropped out Of sight. 1t Is
dangerous spot. but nothing had been
dcne up to dark toward repairing it,
not even to putting up a warning sign
board to enable persons driving In that
vicinity to avoid it,
The rain has been very heavy every
where, and on the reclaimed low lands
down the river the pumps will have to
be set going. Both the pumps on Grand
Island will start up right away, as the
crops are already sown on a large acre
age of this rich island. One of the
pumps is at Ryde, and the other below
Isleton, at the cross levee.
Up in the northern end Of the Sac
ramento Valley and on the mountains
the storm of Sunday night was very
| severe. The rain fell in sheets and the
wind blew almost hurricane. The re-
| suit is another freshet in all the streams,
and the flooding of low places in the
valleys
| North of Marysville the railroad
people will have more or less annoy
ance from water for a day or two yet,
| but unless the storm is renewed the
present high waters will quickly re-
cede.
Last nights Portland-bound express
train was held here, as the water was
rising beyond Marysville, and the
south bound train due here this morn
| ing was held at Red Bluff.
| The report that came to this city on
| Sunday to the effect that N. D. Ride
! outs fine Sutter County levee had
broken and that the Feather River was
| flooding thousands of acres of valuable
grain land appears to have been mis-
take-very fortunately SO.
| Mr.. Rideout was here yesterday and
stated that it was not his levee that
had given way, and that in fact none
| Of his land had been inundated. The
| breaking of some small levee in that
section Of country had given rise to the
report that reached this city. There
| has as yet been no serious damage
| thereabouts from the high water.
| There has been a heavy snowfall in
| the mountains, and Truckee now has
nearly four feet of the beautiful. On this
side of the Summit, however, the storm
was mostly Of rain, and the result has
| been quite a sharp rise in the Ameri-
can and other streams.
BARwICK'S REPORT.
| The Weather Bureau reports show
the highest and lowest temperatures
yesterday to have been 81 and 53 de-
grees, with high southerly winds and
| cloudy weather prevailing.
The highest wind velocity during the
past thirty-six hours was AZ miles in
| this city and A at Red Bluff.
The barometrical readings at 5 a. m.
and pm. were 29.S4 and 1892 inches.
IcSpGCllNCly.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday were so and 80
degrees, with a trace of rain, and one
year ago to-day 30 and 45 degrees, with
| 80 of an inch of rain.
The rainfall during the twelve hours
ending at 5 a. m. yesterday was LA
inches, and for the twenty-four hours
ending at pm yesterday it was 1.S4
inches, making 1921 inches for this
season, as against 1886 to and includ
ing January q, 1895.
The barometer was rising slowly last
evening, and unless low barometrical
conditions prevail at the mouth of the
Columbia River the prospect will be
good for fair or clearing weather to-
day, as is predicted by the San Fran
cisco forecast officer of the United
States Weather Bureau.
The river was 20 feet / inch last even
ing, a rise Of three inches in the after
noon.