Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-12-12
LIST OF DAMAGES. AND INCIDENTS OF THE
STORM.

Ga Tuesday forenoon powerful rain set in
lasting all day, and all night, being accompanied
during the night by one OF the heav es
gales experienced in this vicinity since the dis
! astrous September gale Of q dozen OF more years
ago. The rain descended in torrents, soon car
rying the snow that had fallen the previous night.
and almost deluging the land. We have had
nothing like it during all the protracted rain fs
| of the autumn or winter. 1t continued to rain
until nearly yesterday noon. The ground was
| frozen to the depth Of several inches, and pre-
scented bar to the water soaking in; therefore it
had to seek the low places and gullies on the way
to the river.
| The old Kennebec began Immediately to feel
the effect of the heavy rain fall, and by noon was
over the wharves, attaining at noon height fully
equal to that OF last weeks fresbet and fully up
| to the freshet of last spring. From that time
until dark the river continued to rise at the rate
Of one foot an hour, until about nine o'clock,
| when it was food tide. To give our readers an idea
| of the height of the water at that rimethe water
had come within three feet of the rdgepole of the
| storebousc of the steamboat building, in rear Of
| Wills store. The cellars Of Moulton, Brooks,
| Fuller, Hamen, Libbev, Fowler. Hamlen &
Smith, Alien and in fact nearly all the lower GEL
lars on the river side of Water street, were sub
| merged The cellars were pretty well cleared,
| so that no serious damage done in that direc-
ton Brooks had 1900 casks Of nails in his cellar
aud crew had lively times oil the afternoon
| in raising the same. All the traders on that side
of the street particularly active in the same
| direction.
/ l.r Co tn,ta
| cd by the immense vosme Of water with the &C
| companyug logs and drift stuff. AT eight o'clock
the water was ten feet deep Oh the dam. The
| cotton mills of course had to shut down on &C.
count of back water, and work had to be sus-
pended by all the branches of industry in the
large wooden machine shop, the lower portion of
which was submerged, with its machinery. On
the main pulley which furnishes power for the
entire establishment, there was at least ten feet
of water. Moseley & Co.'S crew were employed
| all day 10 removing manufactured lumber from
| their wharves at the mill east end of the dam
| The best they could do, however, quite an amount
| ioated away Hamlen had to move the contents.
of his salt works, or see them gradually dissolve.
| Considerable anxiety was felt for the safety of
/ that grand old structure, the kennebec dam.
| few Of the boards torn from the apron in
the portion recently repaired, and it was feared
| that the logs and the undcrtow would damage the
structure but IT stood its ground herocslly at last
| accounts. The entire rise in the water could not
| have been far from eighteen feet. Mr.. Charles
Milhken, an expo RTE need lumberman, remarked
yesterday that he anticipated this would be the
| highest fic.het produced wholly by rain for
fvo Of tka
| freshats. Hon. Joseph W. Patterson remembers
that in june 1882 the water rose higher, but that
| is the only exception in his memory.
At Wyman's mills, the breaking up of the ice in
| the pond and the sudden precipitation of the wa
| ter the works, made it necessary to put on q
| large crew of men who worked all Tuesday night
saving lumber
| The streets wee somewhat badly quilted and
the street commissioners inform Us that it will re.
quire some 500 or $500 to pat The same in re-
pair. On Northern avenue, Jefferson street State
Lincoln and Chapel street, are the heaviest
washes. The culveit on State street. opp pste the
| late +. S. Bsrtlett's, caved in.
The damage by the gale was less disastrous than
| light be anticipated from such a tremendous
| blow. The house in town that was not entered 10
some part by the searching rain and wind, must
| indeed have been tight and the fence that was
| not thrown down must have have been built in a
| faithful manner. We shall not undertake to give
all the results Of the gale. The old Lombardy
| popular that has stood for perhaps more than a
century at Cushing's corner, head of Thomaston
| road, was blown down. portion of a tree blown
| across sidewalk in front of G. c. Vose's, State
street; large maple uprooted at j. NJ. Plum
ner's, Court sheet nice elm blown down in
| Mrs. Richards yard, State street; a handsome
| maple broken fl on the State House lot. The
barn of Mrs. Brennan, on Crescent street, was
| blown down; q chimney was blown down
| on the Governor Cony mansion; and bricks
bricks from the top of chimney 10 Mrs. SAWYER.
house, on Winthrop street, went crushing through
skyhght. The tin roof blowed from the
house of Mr. Edwin Packard, on the River road
| which also swept chimney down.
| There were some sixteen or eighteen wash-outs
on the railroad. At Etns there was wash -ou,
40 feet long and Is feet deep. 1t was temporarily
repaired, so that yesterday foreuoon's train passed
over it, arriving here only half An hour late
| There was wash-out at Vassalboro', which wa.
| repaired. and the culvert csved IN at Seven Mile
| Brook. There were no Interruptions west OF
here, on the main line of the Maine Central
| though we hear of several on the "back route.
| The bridge at Lisbon Falls was so badly damaged
| that trains did not pass over it yesterday, and
| there was no railroad communication with Lewis
ton by this way. There was also wash out a
Green aud another at Gloucester. n was reported
on the streets that the wooden mill and grist mil
at Bingham. had beer carried away. A bridge OF
the highway between Gardiner and South Card
ner, carried away.
| Our South China correspondent writes unde
date of Yesterday: During the storm last nigh
a large barn owned by Edwin Jones, was blowl
down and completely destroyed A valuable col
was killed
Bow Oln College Notes.
| On the arrival of President Chamberlain, Sat
urday last from his tour Of four months abroad
be was met at the depot by all the College heade
| nv the Rrunswick Il md and escorted to his res