Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-04-06
Worse Than Minnesota Billiards..

Springfield Republican March ~
Further reports of the great storm
of Saturday show that the damage
done in New England was not exagger-
ated, and i'll several places it was the
most violent and destructive storm for
nearly half a century. The loss in
Massachusetts. Connecticut, and Rhode
Island cannot be less than Il million
dollars. and undoubtedly 4 dozen or
more persons were drowned. People
of the manufacturing valleys Of Con-
hecticut and Rhode Island look upon
the blow that has fallen upon them as
terrible calamity, particularly as
many of them were deeply in debt be-
fore the storm, in consequence of the
hard times, and Il large number must
now lie out of work for considerable
period.
The feature of chief local interest was
at Ludlow, Where the Broad-brook
canal gave way on the farm of Zuri
Whitney. The canal there is formed
by building all enbankment on hill
side. The water found its way to the
road leading from Belchertown to Will
braham, which it followed about 1000
feet, and then ran off through the
meadows to the brook.
The freshet in Worchestcr county
turns out to have been much more Sc
rious than at first reported. The DAM
age 1T Clinton by the going out Of the
Messy pond dam is put at $35O,OOO.
Seven large manufactures were des.
trOyed. 1t had quite the Mill River
accomplishments too. Though ample
warning was given, it is now thought
that two people were drowned in the
houses that went down at Clinton.
Fullerville, which was quite 4 thriving
little settlement, is wiped out nearly as
completely rs was Skinnerville in the
Mill river valley. The Ceder pond dam
also went out, taking two bridges, one
a stone arch on the road to Brimtield;
but the mills below escaped with slight
damage. Fred Austin was drowned at
Webster while attempting to take the
tlush.boartls off the Slater pond dam.
MOulton's reservoir of so acres ut
Rutland was carried off, and the river
at Ware did a little damage. Wor.
chester was excited, yesterday, over
the probable breaking of Paxton dam,
the first of 4 series of dams and mill
ponds in the Cherry valley; but though
the water exalted itself, the disaster
didn't come.
The whole loss in the region of Nor
wich is set down at ss35O,O0O. So far
as can be at present estimated, the loss
by the destruction of property in the
town itself is about $4,000, which is
under, rather than above the actual
damage. The loss of life was chiefly in
the vicinity of Norwich. A number of
persons on the mill side of the stream
at Baltic were cut off by the giving
way of the bridge. Of a party of five
who attempted to cross in a boat, four
were drOwned-Joseph LaPierre. Mar.
cia Perry, Mary Smith, and girl
named AIcCaffrey. Andrew Plant was
barely saved by number of men hold
one another's hands and forming q
chain out into the stream. DR.. Chas
Sweet, of Lebanon, the well-known
bone-setter, was drowned while at.
tempting to cross Hope river, and
Joseph Bennett went down with dam
at North Windham. At Taftville, JO
seph Blacknan, 25 years old, was
caught in a great mass of timber
while trying to save some property
and was carried away, his wife, with
a great crowd of people, looking on. A
Mrs. Coleman, at Versailles, got so ex
cited while being taken from house
partly under water that she dropped
her child only a fortnight old, and il
was drowned. Ashton, r. l., reports ;
boy, II years old, drowned.
The ravages of the storm were by NJ
means so great along the Connecticut
Valley road as in other parts of tht
state, but that section was not exempt
Early Sunday morning the water ROSE
SO high at East Windsor hill as t.
overflow and break way the race-wa,
to the saw and grist mill of j. w
Stoughton & Son, undermining and let
ting down part of the saw-mill. Mel
were at work all day, and teams put OF
at night, to stop the water and save tn
other buildings.
The Chicago Times wants to know i
.swe fellows whose grandfather
fought in the Revolution are not goin
to have our expenses paid to the Cen