The record-union., 1899-01-11
Strong Wind and Heavy Rain All
Over the State.
Extended From Northern Line Acress into
Nevada Down to San Diego.

MIA, Insuring Good Crops of
Grain and Fruit-Another Storm
Reported as Approaching.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1O.-The
worst storm in years ragged on this
| coast to-day. All day long strong
wind. accompanied by rain, hampered
business. a heavy snow is falling IN
the mountains. Telegraph and tele-
| phone wires are Frustrated in many
sections and railroad and steamboat
| travel was interrupted. The damage
| to shipping interests, however, was
| light, owing to the preparedness of
| shipping owners who had been warned
| of the approaching storm by Forecast
| er Harmon.
| In this city rain has fallen in tor
rents since early this morning and at
| midday the wind freshened up to al
most cyclonic proportions.
| A serious disaster was narrowly
averted on the steamer Thoroughfare,
the vessel that carries the cars to and
from the freight yards of the South
ern Pacific Company. The Thorough
and was caught in the blow, and for
some minutes was practically helpless.
The waves were going clear over her
decks. 1t was at the mouth of the
creek where the trouble commenced,
and her crew saw that she could not
weather the gale on the trip to the
city, as the boat was heavily laden and
very hard to steer. For nearly half an
hn (
mouth. rolling in the heavy seas. Six
freight cars on the port side became
unmanageable and toppled over. The
iron and wood stanchions and uprights
saved them from being turned over al
together, and had it not been that the
freight cars on the opposite side of the
| boat were loaded heavily with coal the
craft would have turned turtle. Final
ly the pilots saw that it would be use
less for them to try to cross. and an
order was given to steer the boat back
to Oakland.
The Sacramento steamer Modoc was
due here last night, but she couldn' t
make the city. She had very exciting
experience off the island. The Modoc
had on board number of passengers
and quantity of freight and was quite
reached a point about half way be-
tween the city and Angel Island the
wind was so strong that she could not
| make any Roadway. The seas were
going over her and doing considerable
| damage to the cargo. The passengers
were almost in a panic, and it was de-
cided that it would be best to run back
to Vallejo and remain there for the
night. This was done and the steam
er did not get to this city until this
morning at 9 o'clock.
The storm has not yet tired itself
out, and great blow is reported to be
approaching.
worth a million dollars to this State,
fruit for this year.
An average precipitation Of two
inches of rain throughout this State,
wind velocity varying from As miles
an hour in San Francisco to 10 miles
on Mount Tamalpais, and the baro-
meter down to 1913, are the conditions
which go to make up the greatest
storm which has visited the Coast for
eight years. The storm has extended
from the northern line of the State,
south across into Nevada and to San
Diego, and across the southern boun-
dairy into Mexico. Reports from the
valley sections say that all of the
rivers are rising rapidly, the Sacra-
mento having filed the remarkable
depth of 10 feet. Showery conditions
will probably prevail tomorrow, and
will continue as long as the southeast
and southwest winds keep up. The
greatest precipitation recorded in the
State this afternoon was at Red Bluff,
being % inches with the rain still
falling
The weather bureau reports a dam
gerous storm off the northern coast,
and predicts that within the next
twenty-four hours California will be
visited by the heaviest wind and rain
storm that has occurred in this State
since the season of 1861 Southeast
storm signals are displayed along the
Coast from Port Hartford northward,
and information signals are flying as
far south as San Diego. The shipping
interests have been warned of the dan
ger and vessels are warned not to go
to sea until better conditions prevail.
HEAVY DOWNPOUR IN SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 1O.-The rain
which began to fall this afternoon
amounted to 20 up to 5 p. m. From
that hour to 9 p. m. one and one-tenths
fell making 100 for the storm to-day.
Indications are that the rain may keep
up all night. From various parts of
the county a heavy downpour is re-
ported
RIVER HIGHER THAN FOR YEARS
SANTA CRUZ. Jan. 1O-The river
| is higher to-day than it has been for
some years. Much drift wood is float
| ing down towards the bay The river
banks were lined with men and boys
near the upper bridge securing drift
| wood. Owing to the slide near the big
trees, the narrow gauge trains were de-
| layed, and the transfers of passengers
| and baggage to and from San Fran
cisco was necessary. Heavy rainfall
all day.
! TWO WAREHOUSES; WRECKED
| SUISUN (Cal), Jan. 1O.-Two large
warehouses were blown down in this
vicinity to-day by the storm. One was
owned by ex-Sheriff Rush and the
other by John West.
RAIN AT LOS ANGELES.
| LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1O.-Generous
rains fell throughout Southern Califor-
] MIA to-day, and at this writing the