The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-07-31
A GREAT FLOOD AT BRANDON.
Heavy Damage-Estimated at ~$15,000-Flood
at Forestdale-Buildings Washed Away
Flood at Goshen-Scenes, Inoidents, etc.

at Forestdale-Buildings Washed Away
Flood at Go~shen-scenes, Incidents, etc.
The Otter Creek Netos published at Bran
don displayed great enterprise in Issuing on
Monday an extra containing the particu-
lars Of the serious flood at Brandon and in
adjoining towns. We give the substance
of the narrative as given by Editor
Hackett
We have to record one of the most disas-
trous and fearful floods that has visited us
in some years. Sunday evening it COM
menced to rain about G o'clock it was a
hard shower and held up till about 1890,
and continued without intermission until
three o'clock Monday morning, it being a
steady shower, excepting between one and
two o'clock, when it looked as If the hea-
vens had opened. We can give nc descrip-
ton of it, it was soterrible. The Neshobe
commenced to iisc rapidly, from three to
half-past three it rose two feet and three
inches, and at four it had overfowed its
banks, tearing up the roads, flooding eel
lars, gardens, and sweeping off everything
in its course. Families on the lower flats
we're hurried out of their beds 10 find the
water rushing in at the doors and windows,
and Immediately started to save what they
could and get up on the rising ground out
of reach Of the rising waters. The water
ran across the highway betw cen the post
office building and the scale shops, making
on impossible stream, a part of which fol-
lowed the road over the stone bridge and
down by the grist mill and Briggs shop.
The water came pouring through the
meat market from the back side, washed
out the bulk head of the pent stock
and filled the screen pit, damage not over
$500. Mr.. Henry d. Briggs was not
spared so easily his machine shop was
filled with wst,r, the cross sills broken
and carried away, machinery damaged
ETC., damage from 200 to $1,000. Below
the shop stood the house of Chancey Rick
eTt u~nderpinning washed out and his
garden ruined damage $50. Geo. Beshaw,
Fred Brassor and Joe McGary's gardens
IA WoIhth o"h lOEEf ma kObN
gardens are worth to all laboring men
The highway ia badly washed below the
scale shop, and the banks above the foun
dry. Some wood was washed off thai
was piled here. The building at the stone
mill which formed a part of the dam pitch
ed over, which accounts for the unprece
dented rise of water in the Neshobe thi
morning. The bridge by Jones pond
stone bride this si6e of Capt. Cooks, an,
a big washout this side of John Richard
sons, are all we hear of this side of Pitts
ford.
The low lands were flooded on the creek
damaging those of Messrs. John A. CoDont
E. d. Thayer and N. T. Sprague. Tn
little streams were all high, Jerry Parker
and Rob. Jardin's gardens were ruined
Rob. thinks he lost l 900 () bushels of pc
tatoes. The loss to the town in highway
/ and bridges cannot be estimated. Up t
] this time the only loss of life we hear of
a pig of Col. John Capen, which was foun
on the town farm roofing as usual, and on
belonging to F. Il. Deming. Lyman Brigg
, came near being drowned. He stepped, 6
he supposed, on to the steps of his hous
and went into the cellar, only saving hin
self by catching on the door sill. The steI
had washed out. Depot street is washe
out so as to be impossible, and both road
between here and Forestdale are close
until the water goes down to allow trav
by the stone mill.
/, The bridges are all washed out betwee
a here and the ptor farm, and Col. Merritt
pig pen has gone, pigs and all. But for Il
II hard pan and rocks, Simond block and Il
scale dry house and tin shop would pro
n ably have been undermined.
: If we get off without any malarial di
= eases arising from the odor of the streal
we can stand the financial loss.
VIII Blackmer was compelled to lea'
his team a, Capt. Cocks barn in comir
from Rutland. The scale shops were ba,
ly damaged. Two hogs belonging to Il
t. Brandon house were drowned.
AT FoREsTDALE.
D. AT Forestdale the second devastation
lc water is complete. The people living alol
J. the banks Of the stream were aroused abo
IL twelve o'clock by the rolling of rocks al
they knew the meaning of it and col
RS menced to move out of their houses. I'll
as dam at the grist mill gave way and t
If mill now stands on dry land. The fiji
is residence struck was John Capen's, t
C, water running in at the windows, and
n, attributes the safety of his house 10 |
re wood piled in the shed. The front part
r. his barn is flled with sand three feet dee
his wagon buried over the axles, Al
n the back part of his barn washed oil
I'd h~en-house and corn crib moved aroun
It. his garden ruined and the Nesho
ch running on the wrong side OF the house a
d. washing out his front yard. The me
r. wretched sight was the home of Henry
n Rickert. The water came into his L ps
to washing out the opposite side, carryi
en- away the weeks washing of clothes viii
r. were gathered for this morning. He he
in the back door as long as possible agar
the flood, but human strength was of
,ts avail, the door was burst open and the "
:, ter rushed through the door and window
"" leaving the sand on the parlor carpet thT
inches deep and the water demoralized |
ge furniture. His barn ia carried away, a.
there is nothing to show for his gardt
which was one Of the best in town, only
-. swift current OF water and heaps of rocl
ne Geo. Childs' house was undermined, frC
an yard and garden washed away and all
ok ruin. Frank Robar's barn is washed Of
l. part of his house undermined and fell
John Bonier's house, barn and everythi
were moved out of position and ruined a
much of his furniture washed awe
among other things a new sewing machii