The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-03-27
GREAT DAMAGE NEAR NORWICH, CONN. -
STREAMS OVERLOOKING.

STREAMS OVERLOOKING.
NORWICH, Conn. March 20, 1876.
The reshet in the in this vicinity is the most
disastrous ever known The Thames River is out OF
its banks and it's waters from eight 10 ten feet
deep on the wharves ana railroad tracks Along the
city front the Shetucket rose over twenty ieet At
Grcenvllc the cotton mills OF sheiucket Company
Campbell. Hall Co IS and A. H. Hubbard & Co.'s
paper mills, the Norwich Beachery and others have
their lower stores all submerged The Green
vile dam had twelve feet OF water on II,
and although in great danger, has so far
stood the shock. Al Taitvillc the damage is light,
but above The disaster is general. The bulkhead Of
tn dam at occum carly this morning, and Toto
KIT aud Wegnonock mills, with tenemcnts and build
tugs, badly damaged. The western end OF the fine
iron bridge which crosses the Occum this point
was also undermined and went into the stream. On
tributary Of the shetucket, which enters the river at
this point the mills OF the Versailles Woollcn Com
pnny and the Obenauer and Reldc paper companies
The dams at these mls have all gone, and
THE THE BUILDINGS
aud mills is serious Sill further up the Shciucket
al Baltic are the extensive cotton mills oil the W.
Sprague Manufacturing Company. The bulkhead of
the dam succumbed about and the river made
for itself n new bed washing tho canal under
mining the huge granite mill One hundred and
nfly feet OF 1t Is in ruins. The buildings in
its vicinity are washed away and nearly the
entire village submerged. The vast guam
tiiy OF water liberated by the broken dams
with irresistible force down the shetUcket and
lively structure, nearly 400 ieet In length ON Tho
Yanc the dam and bridge at Fnchvillc have gone and
the dam OF the Kent Manufacturing Company OF Bozrah
willie. Highway bridges have been washed away tele-
graph wires are down and the roads mpassabe
The loss by this series of calanites IS upward Of
$500 000 and 800 people temporarily homeless.
All day long the Shctucket has been filled with the
debr- OF mills dwellings, bridges and dams, and bales
of cotton, wool and miscellaneous merchandise.
But two lives so far reported as lost. M infant
at Versailles which its sick and frightened mother,
while being taken from submerged building,
dropped INTO The stream, and George Blackmar,
OF Taitviile. master carpenter OF the corporation.
Mr.. Blackmar, who had been ferryiDg workmen
the pond OF the TalIville MILL stopped while
returning TO rescue floating merchandise, when
his boat became engaged in lot of driit wood and
1oated into the rapids and over the falls sight
of his wife and friends, who were standing on the
bank. The railroads IN this vicinity are badly dam
aged The steamboat train for Boston, via Norwich
ana Worcester stopped at Thamesvle, below
this city, tins morning, and the passengers remain
here. At Willmantic, Daniesonville, Putnam and
other manufacturing places up the streams further loss
Is feared
MORE LIFE.
Reports OF loss OF life are arriving Three girls and
two men, French Canadians operatives In the Baltic
Mill crossing the pond in boat about Ave O'Clock,
when the boat was drawn INTO the current and cap
sized. Three girls and one man, named La Pierre,
drowned. The other man saved by persons
DR.. Charles Sweet OF Lebanon, while crossing the
from Wlimantic report no serious damage there.