The Portland daily press., 1878-12-12
Nj AINE.

and railroads are swept away or damaged.
MAINE.
bridges and Mills at Fairfield Threaten.
ed-The Oliver full of l. pgs.
Especial to the Pressl
FAIRFIELD, Dsc 11.-There is a great fresh.t
here. The water is still rising. Bridges and
mills are in danger Bridges are being loa Jed
to save them. The mill pond is full of logs
iammed in. Cellars are full of water and some
families have bsen obliged to move. Great
damage has been done to roads. Tasre will bs
heavy loss of logs about here, as they have
been running all day. The wice bridge acr oss
tue mill pond has bean carried away.
ITO the Associated Press.l
Lisbon Falls Bsidxe Carried Away.
BRUNSWICK, Dec. 1.-The storm last night
was very severe and the Andros coggin is rising
fast. A large number Of logs coming down
against the abutment of the railroad bridge at
Lisbon Falls carried it away. The mornipg
trains were unable to cross.
High Water at WaterviIle-The Loci:
wood Mills Shut Down.
WATERvILLE, Dec. ia heavy rain storm
prevailed yesterday and continued through the
A'6o'S WIZ avn iiS'oS top'uly. p5SlQ6utS near
the water are moving out. The Lockwood
mills shut down at 9 on account of high water.
Many washouts are reported Ga the line of the
Maine Central.
WATERvILLE. Dec. II, A. MAT this bour
the water is falling slowly, having risen IA feet
since 8 O'Clock yesterday morning. The Iicop-
10 railroad bridge is 10 reat danger. One of
the abutments has started. The Pullman
train was Cancelled. Many families living
near the water were obliged to move and
houses were loaded to keep them from being
washed away.
Bridges i'm Dancer at Lewiston.
LEWISTON, Dec 1.-The river is rising more
slowly to-uight. Seven aud oae half f,et of
| water on the dam. L gs are carried 60 as to
strike the Maine Central iron bridge. There
| are great fears for the Broad street bridge. TIE
river is falling at Livermore Falls
Wharves and Vessels Damaged nj Cas.
CAsrINE, Dec. 1.-THE gale ipiared all the
wharves aud the bukhead of the lobster far.
tory, and destroyed one fishing smack, Loss
in town not less than $780,
| Ice Houses Blown Dswa.
GARDINER, Dec. IL "A heavy freshet in the
kennebec has done much damage Itis fear.
ed the town bridges on Rolling Plain Brook
are washed or carried away, stopping travel
by road. The damage is estimated at $1,000
The houses of the Gardiner Ice Co, consair-
| ing several thousaud toas of ics, were blown
down, aud the roof blown off of one of the Tin
| Top Ice Co.'s houses. The river is full of logs,
the water is over the wharves and in the Cal
lars of stores.
Dams and Bridges CARR I'd Away at West
Minot.
| MECHANIC FALLS, Dec. 1.-THE river ia hiob
but no damage is done here save flooded cel-
lars. At West Miuot dams aud BRIDGES were
carried away.
Frfshet on the Saco-But Little Dam,ue
Done.
SAco, Dec. 1.-The sto m that begun Mon
day proved the heaviest of the season. The
water is now the highest that it has been sioes
the great freshet Of 1870. out still aooas foot
below the highest point then reached Toi.y
the river has been nsarly stationary, the rise
between morning and noon being only about
one inch. But little damage has zen doce 10
this vicinity by the rise IN the w.te-. J. q.
Deering lost few logs that were swept ont
from around his mill on Springs Island. Thsre
are, however, but very f,w logs in tbs rvs,,
and only about four or five bundled in the
great boom, hence the loss Of logs cannot bs
great.
The water has OVERT swed Somesyille AID
many of the inhabitants there were taken ont
on RATS this morning. Dwellings on the upper
side OF Springs Island " re In many insta noes
surrounded BY water this morning. All thu
low lard on the northeast side of Water street.
Saco, is overftowed. Poor Island is entirely
under water. the occupants of the hou es there
moved out about three O'Clock this morning.
One man in house on Water street, when he
put bis feet out of bed this morning, out than
into the water that had flowed into his rom To
the depth Of about eight inches.
up the river there is the same re pott of high
| water. The highways oa the banks of the
Saco, from Moderation to Bar Mills, was under
water and impossible this morniog, to such an
extent that the daily stage had to abandon il
and take more circaitous route
Vessels Wrecked at RockIand,
RocKLAND, Dec. 1.-THE gale was very &c.
we're here last night. Schooner Harp, Tinker,
Calals for Boston, with ninety-one thousand
BRICK in thu hold and deck load of twenty
hVe thousand feet of lumber, parted one chain,
dragged the other anchor and about midaieht
drove into Birds WHAT where she went estire-
~ to pieces. Some minor damage was done
to vessels and wharvss. Schooner Sunbeam.
OF this port, loading granite at Clark's Island,
Is reported ashore and badly damaged.
Willis and Bridges Ca tried Away in Som.
erset COuoty-Travel ON the somersrt
Railroad sto sped.
SKowHEGAN, Dec. 1.-The river is higher
than after the last storm and is still rising
The rest of the tanuery at Soon is swept away
and the bridge is not considered safe to cross.
A part of the bridge across the Oar,ab .sset at
North Arson is gone, and a number of small
bridges iu that town have been washed away.
The grist mill owned by Marshall & WATSON In
Arson, was carried away last night; loss $500.
Also two bridges across Getohell's Brook were
so badly quilted that it will cost $500 to repair
them. A bad washout is reported at Old Point
on the Somerset railroad. A fill of 100 feet ia
gone besides several culverts, and trains will
be unable to ruu for week on that road TIL.
henuebec river is very high and rising.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Great Damage at Bath.
BATH, Dec. 1.-THE heavist freshet known
Tor years. -Four inches of snow noaltoJ ,o,,'.