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Title: The illustrated atlas and history of Yolo County, Cal., containing a history of California from 1513 to 1850, a history of Yolo County from 1825 to 1880, with statistics ... portraits of well-known citizens, and the official county map
Year: 1879 (1870s)
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Publisher: (San Francisco) : De Pue & company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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up the women, children and invalids tiat were scattered over the city in tents and canvas bouses. Some of the women who were living in tents, situated in remote low place?, were found standing upon beds■ and boxes in water a foot and a half deep, and which was still rising with perilous rapidity. Sick men, to- tally helpless, were found floating upon cots that seemed miraculously buoyant, and in the enfeebled tones of di»- solution erjing for help. The hospital then used by the authorities was tlioframe and canvas house first occupied by Dr. White.It was unfortunately situated upon very low ground, and, in the absence of tho attending physician, was en- tirely abandoned by those who could have been of ser- vice to the poor invalids during the aggressions of tli^water. By mere accident, about, in wiiich Captain J- Sherwood was manager, passed the hospital, and dis- covered the situation of the floating sick by their dread- ful cries for help. The boat was immediately oppW Plater 25
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■ M to the o&ce of removing them to a vacant hoose^ll(- Samael Braanan, where they were nt least safe 01 J* „ ^ j; ^t „ ng believe there were between twelve and twenty re-« ore*! to this yjlace on the levee, only two of which ninber revived from the nnatterable BofiFerings they had endured. After the death of a majority of them.. the balance were removed, by order of CaptniQ Sher->• ood odA coDseut of the aathorities, to tiie hospita)■■cornerof K and Tliird streets. One of these thus re- raoTfd was an old man who had become a mere skeleton< froDi chronic diarrhoja. With assistance his threadbare„ post and pants were removed, and by reqnest hung np•I I r bis cot. In a few hours afterwards one of the phy- uiciani* going np to see him discovered that hia coatand■ nnntrt had changed their color from a black to a light and decidedly grey, and npon a Httlo closer inspection tlic grey w^s found to depend upon a perfect coating of*■ those estcrable animals, tech

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