Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-04
IMPERILS
COSTLY BRIDGES
STREAMS IN NORTH RAGE AT
HIGHEST MARK
Crest of the Deluge Reaches Record
Stage-Msny Families Forced
to Flee - One Home
Surrounded
[By Associated Press.1

MARYSVILLE, Feb. 3.-Another
heavy storm broke over the Sacrament
to valley last evening and ragged furi-
ously all night This morning there
was a cessation, but the indications are
for a continuance.
The Yuba and Feather rivers have
been unaffected.
Along the Sacramento river the floods
are higher than ever. St. John, in
Glenn county, three miles from the
Sacramento river and on Stoney creek
is under three feet Of water.
One family, that of John Nottingham,
including his wife and six children, is
marooned in a house a mile from St.
John and fears are entertained for their
safety.
At Red Bluff the river is a foot
higher than two weeks ago, and the
railroad and wagon bridges are threat
ened.
The Overland trains on the west side
have been tied up at least twelve
hours. The seasons precipitation here
is 1858 against 9.20 to an even date
last season.
The south-bound Overland train No.
10, in two sections, was stalled at
Dunsmuir last night and annulled.
The Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany has a force of forty men fighting
desperately to save the 400-fOot fill be-
tween it's bridges at Cottonwood, Shasta
county. The flood has cut away thirty
feet of the banks protecting the fill
and only eight feet to be washed out
before the fill will go.
No Headway Made
Little or no headway was made by
the men during the night. The water
is a foot deep in all the houses on the
Rancho Rio Alto, near there.
The Battle creek bridge at Balls
Ferry has been carried away. Drift
wood shifted the current of the stream
and undermined the piers.
The Balls Ferry bridge across the
Sacramento is in great danger.
A heavy rain fell last night at Arroyo
Grande but no damage has been re-
ported. The creeks are still high. Feed
is plentiful and stock are doing well,
but another heavy storm will be dlsas-
trous there.
Reports from Redding state< much
damage has been done there and traf-
fic is badly crippled.
Three hundred feet of the Southern
Pacific's track on the Oregon line at
Sims were washed out last night and
no trains could be run today between
Red Bluff and Dunsmuir.
Nm trains could reach Red Bluff to-
day from either direction. The track
has been washed out south of that
place near Tehama, where there are
two feet of water in the streets.
The same condition exists at Hamil-
ton. City and St. Johns, and the resi-
dents of these places are moving out
of the flooded district.
Highest in History
The Sacramento river has never been
higher at Redding than at present. 1t
is running over the east approach to
the county bridge. 1t continued to rise
all night, but began to fall at o'clock
this morning.
The telegraph wires north of Kennett
are prosrtated An inch of snow is re-
ported to have fallen last might at
Yreka.
The Sacramento river at Red Bluff
has reached the mark of 30 feet s
inches, or. two feet higher than ever
before since a record has been kept,
and it is still rising.
The stream, which now is cutting
out new channel east of this town,
has carried away over $25,000 worth Of
lumber and uprooted sycamore trees
two feet in diameter.
The large warehouse at the steam
boat landing have been anchored to
the shore by ropes.
Inc 6nSlu0 IOOIII VI d pldIllllS LHlll
east of town is filled with water and
the mill has shut down.
The Dribble creek bridge, just nor II
of Red Bluff, is in great danger and
may be swept away.
The great volume of water north Of
Selma is flooding into the Yolo basin
and will find an outlet through Cache
slough. This will result in the river
rising some at the islands, but the
water is so low there now that there
is q wide margin to go on before the
Ievees would be in danger.
The flood burden late tonight shifted
from Shasta to Tehama county. The
crest of the wave reached Red Bluff at
noon.
The levee north Of the town Of Te-
hama broke and water ran six feet
deep through the main street and was
sixteen inches deep in the railroad de-
pot. Every house in the town was
flooded and occupants fled to higher
ground.
A mile of Southern Pacific track at
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