The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-02-24

Ine Augusta Journal says that the toll
bridge at that place is perceptibly weakened
and that foot passengers are not allowed to
pass. The same paper gives an account of the
LOSSES IN AUGUSTA
We give all those exceeding hundred dol
lars:
Portland & Kennebec Railroad Co., bridges,
culverts, &C.. 100000
Sprague Manufacturing Co., SIG, 600, on ma
chlnery in cotton factory and damage TO works
of new factory.
Collier & Gardiner, trunk stock, harnesses,
$500.
Whitehouse & Gould, Is hogsheads molasses,
200 bbls. -four, 125 qtls. confsh, $1,000. The
goldfish are probably not very much injured.
b. Libby & Co., salt and cement, $3.50.
H. ID. Hamln, flour, oats, vinegar and cider,
A. Wilder, hardware, nails, IRON, paints and
oils, $500.
M. Withheld, 60 bush. salt, syrup, &c., 5000.
PARROT & Bradbury, corn and coal, $500.
T.. ID. Norcross, coal house and damage to
stock in cellar $500. Sixty tons of coal were
stored in the building that has been wrecked
by the ice. The condition of this is not known
G. X. Partridge, drugs and dry salteries,
+. E. Milliken, salt, &C., $1O0.
Stafford & Son, iron and steel and general
hardware, 800.
j. D. Pierce & Son, crocl1ery stored in Gel
lar badly damaged, $500.
C!app u North, furnace and damage to
goods, 800. In the basement of their store
Rev. MIR. Bingham had lot of nice furniture
stored, which was knocked about and badly
Scared and otherwise injured. A valuable IL
brary belonging to Erastus Bartlett, ESQ.,, was
also stored in the basement, and will be almost
worthless. Some elegant paintings and other
pictures belonging to Mr. Bartlett were saved.
George MarstoD had some very valuable arti-
Giles of wearing apparel stored in the same
place, which were badly damaged.
w. X. Lancey, damage to store, 5000.
icals, $500.
S. s.. Brooks, nails, paints. oils, glue, sand
paper, iron, &c., $500. Nothing was saved.
J. p. Wyman & Son, sash, blinds and doors,
$500. There was large number of doors,
which were damaged about $1,000.
ID. w. Mosher & Co., less of part of dam on
Bond brook, near Wyman's mills, 5000
y. y. Fuller & Son, saved most valuable arti-
Giles that would have been materially damaged
90 bush. potatoes, beets, turn'ps, &C., $3.50.
The aggregate of the above losses foots up to
S125,705. OF course there are minor losses that
are not included in the above estimate. Par
ties lost large quantities of wood, piled in
places that they thought out of the reach of
the freshet. The damage to the trade of the
city in the interruption Of business is not to
be computed. Every trader, however limited
his circle of customers, will feel the effects of
the breakage in railroad connections and the
disability of the bridge.
RAILROAD TRAVEL ON THE KENNEBEc
The railroad company will proceed immedi-
ately to rebuild the bridge at Seven Mile brook
and the other one two miles above it. Both
these bridges will be completed in the course
of-two weeks. Until that time passengers to
Bangor from the west will be compelled to seek
their own conveyance. Negotiations are now
being entered into for the rebuilding of the
railroad bridge, and estimates are being made
as to the comparative cost of an iron and
wooden structure. II an iron bridge is deter
mined upon it can be put up in ninety days.
If the company decide to erect wooden
bridge, Southern pine will be used. A con-
sultaton of several of the directors was held in
Augusta Monday, and prompt action will be
taken in the premises
Arrangements have been made to take pas
sengers from Waterville to Skowhegan on the
Maine Central. The road is all right below
Augusta and the trains run regularly.
An Augusta dispatch of Thursday saws that
C0mn9nV
expects TO resume running passenger trains |
from Augusta northward in about ten DAVIS
1t will take nearly three months to rebuild the
bridge across the Kennebec, and until that
time the passengers will cross the river on the
city bridge to take the train.
DESTRUCTION OF THE NoRRIDGEwoCK BRIDGE.
A Lewiston Journals correspondent thus de-
,cribes the freshet at Norridgewock
The heavy rain that had fallen had swollen
he river so that the ice started some distance,
about 8 D. M, which stopped below the bridge
causing the water to flow back and rise very
'apidly.
They had now reached the lower braces, when
he next, one solid, unbroken cake of ice as tar
is the eye could reach started on its terrible
mission with irresistible force, knocking The
races from underneath the bridge at its ap-
roach, causing it to totter for moment, then
With loud roar and crash, and before the eyes
f an anxious crowd on either shore, we were
eft without bridge. 1t was grand yet ter
ible sight.