St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1876-05-19

to1ore. Two teams do all the carrying
OF baggage. express and mails, OBTAINING
the trains sometimes an hour and a-half,
with more teams the delay would not
be half as long.
BARNET.
The Connecticut river flood of last
week, surpassed anything of the kind
remembered here. The river was as
high as it is often seen Wednesday
night, when the heavy rain and melting
SNOW ut the North caused rapid rise
until Friday forenoon. The highest
water ever known was said to have
been in 1850, when the Passumpsic rail
road was being built. The track was
then raised IL inches above high water
mark. Last Friday the railroad track
was covered for over IL mile here. and
there was an unbroken stream from
bank. The car wheels at the depot
stood III water. and it was five or six
feet deep between the depot and hotel.
People crossed from the peg mill in
boats, and stepped ont on the platform
ut the depot. The railroad track below
the toll bridge was washed out for quite
Il distance, and no trains passed from
Thursday forenoon until Sabbath night.
! The highway below the Gleason barns.
between Barnet and McIndoe's. was
flooded so u.s. to he impossible. The
barn on Stevens island was moved and
the hay in several of the meadow barns
wet up three or four feet. Many of the
meadow fences are lying fiat, and some
have tioated off. The water began ia
ahate Friday afternoon, but was very
high all day Saturday.
MCINDOE'S
The frcShct of last week made fearful
work III this Vicinity sweeping away
in an hour the work of Years. Travel
10y the wagon roads on either side the
river was nh>tructed 10y the rise of
water. Mr.. MullIkrn, who occupies the
J
passcrs by. was driven ont of his dom
icil in the night, and removed the most
of his household effects. The boom
and one pier belonging to X. +. Pea
body y Co., were carried ont by the
high water and the accumulation of
lumber. The lumber which had been
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securing the stock for the mill is con
Sidcrahly less than it was. as it will he
nearly impossible t" load a pier 81 that
it will stay till next winter.
WEST CONCORD AND ABOVE.
The high water which had prevailed
for Il week. eliminated on Thursday
last in the greatest and most disastrous
trrshet ever known here. The nearest
approach To it. which is recorded, was
in $50. when the water reached nearly
lis present altitude. The result of the
tIe>hrt is the loss of Il portion of the
"Hadlcy dam" S"-callcd, in Victory
also Il bad wash out at How land, Tiltou
\ cos mill. 10y which the dam will
have to Ice heightened some forty feet
the top of Il portion of ID. C"lhy's new
dam at North Concord also Il very
serious damaging of W. II. Phelps mill
which was nearly undermined. The
True bridge. >o-c;tlled, near b. and II
ID. Tndcrwuod'S. Heated of and now
lies OF stands some forty rods down the
river. and will have to he taken to
pieces and rebuilt. This pretty etfrctu-
ally cuts off the travel n the direction
"l Miles Pond and Lunrnburgh. aud
interrupts it towards North Concord
and the country above.
At Pixies mill. the west point below
this bridge. the dam very nearly shared
the fate of those above. hut 10y >trrnu-
ouS rNrItinn> il was saved, they losing
only Il few thousand feet of timber
Murgan'> boom at West Concord. broke
letting ont nearly all the logs III hi,
pond. some thirty 81 forty thousand
d The upper bridge ut West Concord wa;
: also swept away. lay the undermining 4"
one nf the ahutmrntS. This bridge wa.
built some three Years ago. 1t wa:
only 10y the greatest vigilance that tn,
old factory dam WAS saved and for
short time il looked ~ though that. "a
we'll ~ the covered bridge Il little dis
} tancr below. must both go 10y til,
= board" For Il long distance below
| here. the banks of the river and tn,
meadows are thicklN strewn with logs
diff wood. and Il mixed assortment u
= debris. the accumulation of Years. whicl
/ WAS gathered up and brought down from
, above here 10y the rush of waters. Til,
I rapid melting of the SNOW of Victor,
: and CRANKY. was the cause in Il gre;t
| degree of this unprecedented rise u
: water; and the giving away of TIN
| IIadley dam above mentioned. great,
augmented it. and flooded the who'll
/ valley below.
Barnet.
The only mail received last weel
, from Wednesday night until Saturla,
night. WAS from Peacham.
The peg mill began running agail
Monday, being closed three days al
account of high water.
The Catholics held meetings at tn
town hall last week Thursday and Fri
day.
'Th.. lnru.St ,f tho EIn,s,n Island.