Connecticut western news., 1874-06-12

thunder storm with heavy raln set iu ...u continued with short inlermission un,i nearly morning. About mdnigh, Mad river, winch is very easily excited, began to overflow it's banks and to flood th streets and cellars through tue village. The Williamsburg horror was SO fresh in mind | that the inhabitants took alarm and Ian terms and anxious faces might have been seen on every hand, and from that time un til morning there was very little sleep. The water coutiGued to rise with the storm, and soon after five o'clock neighbors were con- sulting eagerly, predictions were frequent that trouble was coming and the whole town was alive.
 The real music came soon after seven o'clock. The dam on Lake stream at the Hurlburt iron works gave way, releasing small body of water, which swept down Mad river with great force. In reality the damage done was almost inconsequential,
 but in the nervous condition of the inhabi- tants, wearied with their night watch, it
 was sufficient to produce very thorough
 scare: Scores of men ran shouting through
 the streets Take to the hills, the pond has
 given away;' the alarm bell sounded, and
 without stopping for barley the whole ln-
 habitants, men, women and children, scam
 pered for the high ground. It must be
 borne in mind that the overfowing waters
 from Mad river were coursing through the
 streets, from two to four feet in depth,
 making pedestrianism anything but pleas
 ant, especially for the ladies. But there
 was no time to stop for etiquette or cere-
 mony, or for regarding toilettes. It was
 better to go to the hills in dishabille than
 to float down the torrent in the same con
 dition. So there was general exodus be-
 fore the anticipated deluge. Strong men
 carried their wives and mothers and moth
 make way with their sisters or other female
 friends; and ladies who did not happen to
 have gentleman handy waded in and
 wrought out their own salvation with fear
 and trembling. It was a very serious time
 just then, although its ludicrous side was
 very prominent soon after. Serious enough
 too, it proved for one young mother, who,
 startled by the general alarm from the bed where she had been confined in childbirth only twelve hours before, made her way to the street and waded through the chilling
 stream for several rods until she was found in an exhausted condition and carried into the Clarke House. Her babe died before the flood subsided. Another lady in weak condition from ill.health and 8 hem orrhage, was found by her husband just as she was
 about to plunge into the water, and was carried by him to place sf safety.
 But comparative quiet was soon restored as it become known that the lake dam had not given away, and that the alarm was needless.
 The chief loss was caused by the over
 flow of Mad river, and is confined to the streets, dooryards and cellars along its banks, but the severest evidences of the waters power are to be seen immediately . in front of the broken dam. One edge o
 the wave struck portion of the dooryart
 of J. R. Alvord's handsome residence ant swept It as bare as a river bottom, removing his front fence and gullying out the street Crossing the street, it badly demoralizet l the cellar, dooryard and garden of MT - Karrman, corner of Meadow and Munro streets. The neighboring gardens ant yards were injured to small extent.
 : The streets through the borough are bad ly washed and will require an outlay o . several thousand dollars to put them in re e pair. The Clarke House basement wa flooded and the yards and sidewalks torl u up. Mir. Forester, the landlord, estimate 5 bis loss at about $500. His house is usual = lY deluged once or twice every year. Tn \ Winsted Hoe and Tool company had par > of an abutment washed away, and the eel = lars of several shops deluged. Probabl
 loss about $10OO. The damage to Mr. A! s worlds property is probably $l5O, and t MT. Karrman about $25O. The old ga
 company will lose some two hundred dol e lars in mains torn up, and the new compa , ny's grounds were thoroughly soaked. Tn ' New England Pin company will have t' pay $20o to restore raceway and repai other damages. MT. William Sweet, COT r. Der of Elm and High streets, loses 500 lbs of tobacco which was stored in his cellar : By similar overflow in April he lost l5O F pounds. The millinery shop of Miss Elt, was slightly damaged. The Gilbert clocl company lost portion of little bricl y storehOase which was undermined, and ar otherwise damaged probably about $25e Nearly all the residents along Main stree and the intermediate vicinity are damages slightly as to their door yards and side walks. At Dudley's 'taRnery 'Oa Mad ri~eJ some fifty caskssof foreign bides had to b
 rolled during the night from 'bhe bank to e position of greater security. An the Eas s villagethe crossroad to the e'Cann. Wester
 freight depot was nearly .Obliterated, bu
 the bridge remains stsnding. Below tn II village considerable amount of tramwa a
 was washed away.
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