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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from California--Unprecedented Freshets--Gen. Shields Accepts the appointment of Brigadier General. (search)
g off bridges, fences, &c. Part of Maysville and Stockton, as well as Sacramento were inundated. The entire number of lives lost is not known. Several brick buildings had fallen at Maysville. The loss of property at Sacramento is estimated at half a million. Entire communication with many districts was cut off, and business suspended. The weather for the past two days has been pleasant and apparently settled. The waters are consequently receding gradually. The funeral of Gen. Baker is engrossing general attention at San Francisco to-day. --The volunteer force and State military, and civic organizations, with the citizens generally, participated, making the largest procession ever witnessed here. About $20,000 have been subscribed for the relief of the sufferers by the Sacramento flood. The water has been from two to twelve feet deep in almost every house in that city. Over one-third of the city was overflowed. The water, however, at last accounts, was recedin