Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-13
THE STORM.
MORE PARTICULARS OF THE
DAMA6

NORTHAMPTON, Msss,, December u As news
Comes in 1t Is found that no town in the county
has escaped loss by the high water.
Southampton lost four b. idges aud several dams
and W estbsmpton suffers loss Of from $1,000 to
S6OOO. Huntington and Cum m Of ton sti 1 heavier
losses. and Goshen and Woithington from $1,000
to $1,000.
The Cans. road will not run through trains for
q week.
The Connecticut River rsil way resumed through
travel tonight. Tue Hatfield washout i, being
repaired
BoRDENrowN. Nj, December II The .,ol IN
has so swollen the Delaware al this place that all
the railroads are uhd.r water.
No trains have run fiom here since w eduesday
evening. The passengers and express matter are
still here: No mails have been received from any
point to -dsy.
Five locomotives ATE placed on the bridge over
the ST. cam between here aud Trenton, 10 secure
II. The river is still rising.
MANCHESTER, n. H., December II. At Amos.
keag Falls the Merrimack river is i've inches
higher than at any time since 1880.
ms morning there was over nine feet of water
on the new stone dam. The Manchester mills
were compelled TO shut down on account of high
water, and will not start up again this week.
PITTsBURG, Pa, December II The damage
to the Lehign Valley Railroad IS immeuse, and it
will require several days to put the road in its
former CONDITION. No trains have yet gone
through.
PORT JARVIS, n. Y, December r. The water
in the Delaware and Nevensink rivers has fallen
eight feet, aud the damages are being repaired.
LAWRENCE, Mass, December H. A tremend-
Gus volume vi water has been pouring over the
falls to-day and TO- night. None OF the mills can
run tomorrow and 1t IS doubtful if they can the
rest OF the week.
PLYMOUTH, December u. The freshet caused
by tuesday, rain was the heaviest known IN tn is
vIcinlty since 1869.
The dausge WAS greatest at Compton, Wood
stock and Thornton.
At Ashland q bridge and dam wa. carried away
entslling loss of about $1,000.
10 the Pemigewasset and Baker valleys bridges
were injured, and the fields covered with drit
wood and rubbish
10 some places farms are much Injured, either
by the water carrying away the soil, OF covering
1t with sand and stones.
On the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad
much damage was done. From Ashland to Ply
mouth the road runs mostly through meadow
lands, where it is fully exposed to the action of
the water. Here for nearly mile and half the
the track is twisted up and the road bed entirely
washed away. This is the worst break OF the
line.
Above Plymouth there are several sma Il breaks
and At Wentworth is the large washout into which
the through freight train Tell on Tuesday night.
Two engine and two box cars still remain there.
When the engines fell through, one of the engi-
neers was pitched about 80 feet into the river.
where. although he could not swim, the strong
current carried him TO place Of safely. The su-
perlntendent expects 10 get trains running to-
night, but the probabilities that none will run
north of Ashland before tomorrow
The river has gone down fifteen feet since
Wednesday, and is still falling.
At Warren = new mill was damaged $500, and
a coal kiln At West Rumney was damaged 10 the
extent of $500.
The break at Wentworth is not yet repaired,
but there is q large force of men at work, and it
will be bridged around by Friday. This and the
one At West Rumney are the only ones between
here and Warren which are not repaired.