Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-25
NEWS FROM SACRAMENTO
AND ITS VICINITY is
NOT ENCOURAGING
By Associated Press.

Dy ASSOCldlGu IIeSS.
SACRAMENTO, March 24-The news
from down river points received by the
Union this morning was far from en-
couraging. The idea abroad Satur-
day that the worst was passed in the
island districts was not not borne out
by developments.
Saturday night levees crumbled and
islands rich as the tabled gardens of
the Indies were inundated while the
people We're yet battling to save them.
Before noon today the telephone from
Courtland and Rio Vista had an
nounced the breaking of the levee of
Brannon island and that the flood that
poured in swept over the back levee Of
Andrus islnd and soon made of it an
inland sea.
Saturday night it was hoped that
Brannon and Andrus islands would be
saved and the announcement that the
Sherman island levees were high and
strong was received with satisfaction.
| Today little hope was had of holding
the Sherman island levees. Rio Vista
reported that the levee of Sherman is
land could keep out no more water and
that the river was rising, Nor was that
the worst.
Weather Observer Scarr stated upon
receipt of the news that the water at
that point would continue to rise. The
prospect for saving the big island in
the extreme southern part of Sacra-
mento county looked gloomy.
Further Disasters
On top of these disasters came word
from knights Landing, twenty-five
miles up the river, that Reclamation
District No. 10S, situated on the east
side of the Sacramento river, south of
Colusa, and extending thence south to
a point nearly opposite knights Land
ing, was being submerged rapidly
that late Saturday afternoon it's front
levee had gone out in at least one place
and that it was impossible to repair
the break. The district contains 75,-
600 acres of the richest land in the vail
ley, and it's levees collapsed in the big
flood in the early spring of 1904.
Reports from Courtland, thirty-five
miles down the river, were that there
was little change in the situation from
Saturday night. The Randall island
and Pierson district front levees were
still holding and there were hopes that
these would be saved. The Southern
Pacific dredger that was sent down from
Riverside Saturday was operating on
the Randall island levee and was doing
efficient work. The water was rising
slowly but was yet three inches be-
low the high water mark reached last
Friday.
Encouraging News
Courtland advice was that. the two
breaks in the levee fronting the Terry
ranch below Freeport one 80, the other
$50 feet wide, were flooding the lower
country, but word from Bush Quinn's
place, three miles south of this city,
was to the effect that the water was
running off to the south instead OF
backing up against the south levee of
Sacramento, indicating that there Is no
great amount of backwater from the
Consumes and Mokelumne rivers to
contend with.
Grand island according to both
Courtland and Rio Vista, is still high
and dry and the prospect of keeping
out the water is good.
On top OF the discouraging news from
the south, Weather Observer James H.
Scarr of this city announced at LAS
p m. today that the barometer was
falling rapidly and that there was in
dication of heavy rains in the valley.