Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-03-28
Furious Wind and Rain Storm.
DAMAGES BY SEA ard LAND.
Many Vessels Wreck cd.
Heavy FresAets Reported.
BRIDGES, DAMS, FACTORIES,
&c, SWEPT AWAY.
Hundreds of Thousands of dollars
Damage.
.Maine.

Machias, March o. The roll Of Harwood dam,
at the upper mills in this place. gave way this
morning. The lower mills and bridges were in
iminent danger for a while, but the water is al
ready sub.idiDg. Navigation no doubt will open
Wednesday.
Schooner Matanzas, ashore at Starbira's Creek,
is reported total loss.
Schooner Lucy Lee. ashore at Englishman'
river, is slightly damaged.
1t has rained necessarily for thirty hours ard is
still raining.
Brunswick, March q. The Little River stream
at Lisbon Falls rose rapidly this forenoon, carry
ing off the carriage bridge and damaging the
railroad bridge so that trains cannot pass for
few hours, until repairs are made.
Portland March q. Schooner Harriet Newell
Capt Kent, from Elizabethport for Bath, with
coal, went ashore on Bluff Island, Scar5oro', at .
o'clock Sunday morning, and went to pieces.
Capt. Kent ard wife were drowned, the rest OF
the crew saved.
They report a brig in company with them when
they went ashore, and they afterwards picked up
wreck stuff and suppose the brig wrecked. Name
unknown.
land, was totally wrecked on Cape Porpoise, Sat
urday night. Crew saved.
Schooner Harriet Newell was l2S tons, owned
in Boston, coal laden, and was anchored at Rich
mond Island. She broke her chains and drifted
on to Bluff Island. The men landed at daybreak
and wished to rig basket and haul Mrs Kent
ashore, but as the vessel lay easily on the rocks
the captain preferred to stick to her. When the
tide rose, the vessel pounded to pieces Captain
Kent tiled to save his wife on a spar, but she was
washed away and he was last seen drifting sea-
ward. Some fragments Of the wreck came ashore
at Blue Point but every vestige disappeared from
Bluff Island.
Massachusetts.
Boston, March q. Later advices from Clinton,
Mass, show that the damage occasioned by the
giving away of the Messy Pond dam was even
greater than at first estimated and that $500, 900
will hardly cover it. 1t is not known that any
lives were lost. The scene to-day for a distance
of two miles in the track Of the waters recalls the
terrible Mill River disaster. The gorge cut by
the flood varies from twenty to sixty feet deep,
leaving huge granite boulders clearly washed
where none were to be seen before.
The summary Of the buildings destroyed in
cludes the Clinton tannery, Fullerville Co.'S fac
tory, a comb factory and four other buildings.
Dispatches state tnat the uan IN SturorlCSe,
Mass, l6 miles above Putnam, was washed away
AT Taftville, five men were drowned by the
giving way of a dam they were repairing.
Connecticut.
Boston, March 81 A Putnam, Conn, special,
giving particulars of the freshet on Qunnebaug
and French rivers, Sunday morning, states that
the flood could have been prevented by exercise
of care and energy. The tracks Of the Norwich
i Worcester and New York & New England
roads, were torn up and travel suspended. The
New York boat train passed over this morning.
Norwich, March 81. SO far as can be at present
learned, the loss in the town of Norwich, by the
freshet is about SIP, 900, which is under rather
than above the actual damage done. Estimated
damage at Baltic, in the town of Spraeue, $780,
900; at Quinnebaug Mills and Danielsonville,
$2j 900.