Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-10-21

damage done to roads, bridges, buildings
crops and farms, cannot be estimated, bu
1t must reach several thousand dollars
One OF the selectmen says that it will take
ten thousand dollars to repair the roads
and bridges as they were before. Nearly
! all the bridges in town-and we have q
: large number-are swept eway and
totally destroyed, while the remainder
are more or less injured. The covered
bridge in this village, over Ball Mountain
brook, was swept away Monday afternoon,
taking with it one of our most prominent
citizens, William H. Carr. Why he
should be found in the bridge at this time
is wholly unaccountable. He was a
prudent and cautious man, and no good
could be done by the action then taken
A little before noon he had demonstrated
with some men who were removing a
horse rake from tho imperied bridge,
and at the dinner table he told his wife
that all the money in town could not hire
him to enter the bridge in its present con-
dtion. And yet, by some strange infat-
uation, after dinner, he went to the bridge,
and finding the water little lower, he,
with two others, passed over il. In at
tempting 10 return he was caught in the
middle of it az it was swept away, leay-
ing his companions, one on either bank,
just escaping with their lives. The
northern ent WIS the first to move, but as
it swung into the stream, the whole
structure fell with crash, and when Mr..
Carr was last seen he was being crushed
i'll the falling timbers.
On Tuesday "A thorough search was in
stituted for the body. His umbrella was
found, uniujurtd, about one hundred rods
below the place of the accident About
noon his coat was found near the center
Of a large island, half mile below the
village. II was somewhat torn and the
sleeves turned inside out, with some of his
papers in the pockets. About the same
time, by another party of searchers, the
body was found two and a-half miles be- |
low, with the remaining clothing and part |
OF the money he had on his person at the
time of the accident. The body was con-
bruised about the head and face |
and the skull broken in His wife, the /,
only family he leaves behind, was nearly |
distracted with her deep and sudden grief. |
Mr.. Carr sem, to have had, for some time
past, strange presentiment of approach
ing death, and had made his will five
weeks since. His funeral took place on
Thursday, and was attended by large
of people. The preacher dis
coursed upon the lessons of such un-
usual and calamitous providences," from
the text: Thou hast showed thy people
hard thing-; thou hast made Us to drink
the wine OF astouishment." Psalms 60 3.
1t was hsart-rending To see the weakly
and the pitied wife. refuse for an hour to
take the last look at her idolized husband.
that he mi.h be buried out of her sight.
At last las was inferred, and we returned
to our homes, feeling that we were ex-
periencing one of the saddest weeks of
,ur lives. II
There j, no business no travelling, no ,
nails, while deep and still solemnity
pervades the entire community. This
lood will. effect the material interests of
hi, town for years, and the sad story of ,
Vim. II. Carr will be handed down to 4
ucceeding generations.