The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-26
The Freshet in the Valley of the Connec-

FROM our exchanges in the Connecticut vale,
we gather the following facts:
Inc late rise of the Connecticut has beer
greater and more disastrous than any which hal
preceded it in the recollection of living men
and the destruction of bridges, buildings, rail
roads, fences, &C., would have been far more ter
floie had the ice not have been cleared from the
river before Its greatest height The water Gov
ered the flooring of many of the Connection,
bridges. and some were removed from thei,
foundations, and the presence of floating ice
would have swept everything. The highway
olluse across West River, at Brattleboro, is gone,
ana 1t VIII take $4,000 to replace it, The bridge
connecting the beautiful island in the river at
brattleboro with the New Hampshire shore, is
also gone, and chat island is left ruin and o
waste. 1t contained twenty-five acres of highly
cultivated and excellent land, IL new and ele-
CANT farm house. outbuildings, the dollhouse,
ana an old house upon the south end Of the ISL
and The dollhouse was hoated down stream
IN very good condition. There is nothing
NP WV i0i''i''i puo WIG new Darn, and the
ola house upon the south end nearly all the
cultivated land is washed away from two to eight
ioeC ueep, and the area Of the island is reduced
to less than eight acres and what is left is GOV.
cred with sand. The Valley Railroad was washed
so as to be impossible in more than thirty places
MIR. Il. Howe of Vernon, lost two acres of ex-
cellent land. Mr.. N. f. Cabot, who owned
most OF the island at Brattleboro, has lost eve
rythlns. The damage to the foundry of New
man Il Son will reach 5000. A Mr.. Shaw. on
Putney meadows, lost all his buildings, grain.
and farming tools. The family of Mr.. John
otearns of Hinsdale, N. II. escaped through the
windows The Hinsdale bridge is gone, and
more than half mile Of the road thither, is
gone level with the bed of the river.
At Bellows Falls, Mr.. Sloat, Superintendent
OF the Valley Railroad, with a gang of men,
worked necessarily to keep the water out of the
tunnel under the village, the opening of which
must have swept this thriving village en- n.asse,
into the raging Aocd. The water was kept out
Of the tunnel, but the lower part of the village
was submerged to the second story windows,
The Argus says " There were many sleen-
less eyes and anxious hearts in Bellows Falls
Saturday night, and feeling akin to despair
arose in the minds of some. as anxious watchers
kept reporting the river as rising until 4 A. M
OF the Sabbath AT this time it reached its
greatest height, at $50 it had perceptibly re-
ceded, and then glad sense of relief was felt
on all hands, which found expression at the NOR.
ning service in Emmanuel church in prayer of
TO God for deliverance."
Heavy loss will fall upon the Canal company.
The old paper-mill dam gone, with portion
OF the peg mandatory Of W. & G. G. Flint.
Several small buildings were carried down
stream. One large building on tie N. II. side
belonging to D. Tyler was upset and carried off.
On the flats above Bellows Falls the damage is
great. ). +. Alice suffered mu Oh from HAVING
everything submerged. James and Joseph Webb
were obliged to retreat with their families to
he hills. On the Bellows Falls farm. Geo II
Sparhawk, the damage is from 1000 to 5000
dollars. The loss here was 10 to Is acres If
meadow, 300 bushels of corn. some wheat
grass seed, and large quantity of oats, &c.
lhe vile OF young man named Farr, in
Westminster, had q young child some three
lays old. She was carried to place of safety
BY oedstead being set upon raft, which was
taken upon the shoulders Of some men when drv
land was reached
The Rutland railroad was submerged for four
miles above Bellows Falls
on the Sullivan road Messrs Morse aud Ilol.
mes lost 3OO cords of wood, and many were
1rlven from their homes and damaged by having
their premises submerged.
1t is said the Connecticut was four feet b;ob-
'r than was ever before known. The Bellows
Falls argus says:
" more beautiful sight than the Fails and
'ap'os mere was never looked upon by mortal
'Je, On cano the waters ieaping from rock to
'ock WIN feslstless force boiling and seething
WIN their own fury, the spray forming innu.
neraole ralnooWs, and when contemplating it
Ihere was no danger Of forgetting the impotence
lnd nslSpifcance of man beside the Creator of
all things, who alone oontrolleth the winds and
inc Hoods. ThrongS Of admiring spectators
looked upon this scene Of surprising splendor.
AT Hartford, o., the water was % feet and
8 inches above high water mark. One street
was i've feet under water. The Hartford Press
says:
I" Hundreds of families were drowned out
and cases of individual suffering must be nu.
merous. Mayor Hamersey had the CITY Hall