Flooding in the Sacramento Valley
By Editor
The storm reported last week is wide-spread and still continues. The damage to property, especially in the Sacramento valley, will be immense. The river was never known to be higher, not even during the great flood of 1862. Both above and below Sacramento city the levees have given way, and the country is covered by one vast waste of water. Every precaution has been taken to secure the city itself; the levee (which for 2,000 feet is from two to four hundred feet wide, and twenty-nine and one-half feet high) is watched night and day, and cars loaded with sacks of dirt are kept ready to go on a moment's notice. Were it not for the unfailing sign once placed in the heavens, some living in this valley might sometimes fear a second flood like that of Noah's time, but the word of the Lord standeth sure. LATER.—The river according to later accounts is gradually receding, and it is to be hoped that the storm is over.