The Portland daily press., 1869-10-06

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The storm.
The storm Of Sunday and Monday was ex-
tremely violent throughout the State, and we
hear of much destruction of property in all
directions. An immense quantity. of rain fell,
and the rivers rose with startling rapidity
breaking booms, and sweeping down large
quantities of lumber, carrying off bridges, &c.
The Androscoggin rose six feet in twenty four
hours. AT Lewiston the loss of logs as esti-
mated by the journal will be several millions.
On what firms the loss will fall is not known,
though Messrs. s. R. Bearce & Co., and the
Lewiston Steam Mill Co. will lose quite largely.
These firms have large gangs of men employed
In catching logs at Lisbon and even as far
| down as tide waters. A dye house attach
ed to Cowan g Co.'S woolen mill was carried
off, but no building of Importance suffered
| Accounts from Augusta report the hennebec
| very high and sill rising. Every boom be-
tween Augusta and Waterville was broken
and the logs were running freely. GU
Considerable damage was done on the Sandy
river. The railroad bridge near Pennington,
the town bridge over the Sandy at the same
place, and corn factory were carried away
| The loss is heavy. 1t-ts5j b
A train passed up the Androscoggin rail
road from Lewiston to Leeds Monday morn
| ing, where its progress was stayed, a bridge
| over the Dead river in Leeds having been car
| ried off by the flood. A town bridge in Leeds,
over the same stream was also carried away.
The damage to railroads all over the State is
considerable. On the Grand Trunk to Island
Pond many calverts are damaged and the
| track badly washed. The bridge near Paris is
| impossible, the track at either end being wash
ed away and the abutments damaged
At Waterville Gen. Franklin Smith loses
| all his logs and his new saw mill is somewhat
damaged. The Sebasticook river rose eleven
| feet in five hours Monday night. r
At Kendall's Mills, j. Wnslow Jones loses
another corn factory. in addition to that re-
ported gone at Farmington. The Messrs Tot
man lose all their logs, as do also Fogg g.
| Newhall.
| Further particulars of damage caused by the
storm, upon the Androgcoggin and Kennebec.
rivers, may be found in our telegraphic col
umns. ...,i" XXI. 1000
The highways all over the State are badly
damaged. -.a.. H.. ~,
..- ra.. MASSACHUSETTS. Ell W. 40 10 "a !
Very little damage was done in Boston and
vicinity. small portion of the roof of the
Coliseum was blown off in the gale.
An embankment at Wilbraham, on the Bos-
ton & Albany Railroad, 200 feet long and 70
| feet deep, with stone arch bridge, was swept
| away, and the Boston trains cannot run west
| Of Worcester before Wednesday night.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
AT Concord, N. H., the storm ragged with
great violence. The streets were badly washed
and quilted, hundreds of cellars are overfowed,
engine fires in basement stories extinguished,
sidewalks caved in and destroyed and other
damages occasioned, ''too numerous to men,
ton" At West Concord a dwelling house
was undermined and swept away. Long Pond
| rose two feet. The road at Farnum's crossing
was quilted from side to side to the width Of
| twenty feet and fifteen feet in depth. Near
one hundred feet of the Claremont Railroad
was washed out, the rails in some places sink
| ing ten feet. Five wash-outs are reported on
the Contocook Valley Railroad, and the train
was stopped few miles from Hillsborough
Bridge. The Montreal road is also reported in
bad condition. 20 sii4ssi stasisr VI ,u8T5CA
Goffstown has been carried away, and John
Leach, a resident of that town, was drowned.
The damage in New Hampshire is estimated at
a million dollars. -
NEW YORK. -
A Hudson river dispatch says that FritE's
paper mill and Harden's wooden mill and store
house was carried away, as also the dam at
Philmen. Five bridges leading to Rhineback
were washed away. The Harlem Railroad
was badly washed between Chatham and Do
yer Plains. ~ Aa'.. ,i9i.o es s'3a.9t-
Several dams in the suburbs of Schenectady.
N. Y, are gone, and the fats are submerged.
A number of streets are under water. Mo-
hawk river is ten feet above low water mark.
The Erie canal is in very bad condition; there
are two breaks on the four mile level, also a
portion of the aqueduct gone ON seven mile
level. The country in the neghborhood is in
undated, and it will take two weeks to repair
the damages. Trains on the New York Cen
trail Railroad going West are water bound
there. The track six miles west is under water
and portion off culvert gone.
At Albany the water is still in the streets
parallel with the river. South Broadway is
7 1SoDfo AOA oAAail DOdtSs 4NSGly al but
Easements and cellars east of Green street are
flooded. At Troy the food is unprecedented.
The water in the Hudson river is eighteen feet
above low water mark. The mills are greatly
damaged, and the ssUp North'' country is
flooded Three houses were carried away at
Mechanicsville, and woman drowned Sew ]
eral persons were drowned in the Hudson. -
A passenger train was thu own into the Hoo
sac river at Hoosae Falls, by wash on the
track, and three lives were lost The names
of the killed are DR.. Fowler aud wife of Hoosac
Falls and Charles Aiken of Sand Lake Com
ductor Clark was seriously injured. The loss
to the West Troy lumbermsn by the freshet
will reach 100000 ,te4-E ,,esf s4s,gttf
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY
From Washington we learn that the canals
were overfowed and the lower stories of ada
cent houses flooded, bridges over the canaIand
elsewhere carried away, several new houses
undermined, sewers injured, and in several
cases ground cavea in. The reserve force of
the 9TH precinct called out to assist families
in Purdey's Court, near Pennsylvania Avenue
and First street, and to rescue women and
children. Shantes back of the railroad sta
ton were overfowed. Three cofins were
washed down tie river from burial place in
Georgetown. The bridges over Rock Creek
were swept away, also fences, frame shantes
and everything on the banks. Many lime
kilns were entirely submerged and large guam
titles of fine destroyed. Owing to the rise of
the Potomac, merchants on Water street were
obliged to remove their goods. Bladensburg
was again inundated, the eastern branch wash
ing higher than ever before, and in some parts
of the village even the upper stories of houses
were flooded.