Sentence:  Dens of the description of the "Tapis Franc," and the "<WSD>deadfalls</WSD>" of San Francisco and Sacramento, are now matters of history only, and it seems beyond the bounds of probability that similar haunts of vice, and the brutal and lawless scenes there enacted, will ever again be permitted to disgrace our country, and the name of civilization. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A cheap, rough bar or saloon.