The Portland daily press., 1878-12-12
MASSACHUSETTS.
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A ~ ou HhTtu&e swept Away.
BosroN, Dec. 1.-The Boston & Alb my
railroad bridge at Huntington, Mass was
swept away, cottit e eff communication with
the western part of, the state via that route.
an1 many passengers were detained in Pitts
field Ia consequence
Westd-ld fnun la teI-A Loss Of $500. 600.
SPRINGFIELD, Dec 11.-There are several
bad washonts on the Boston q Albany railroad
in the vIcioity Ct W.s,fed. Tuesday avn.
lng's trains In both directions were stuck he.
tween Wes,fiela and Russell. There are M
trains west of this CITY today on account of a
wasbont 100 feet long, 10 feet deep, mills and
half this side of Wertfeld Tue same d,s.
lance oey ond Westhei6 thousand feet Of both
tracks gone. Al Rlss. Il two more sect ocs
OF 300 and 200 feet are gone At Huptneton
halt OF the town iron bi1ze, one span of the
Boston & Albany iron bridge, a portion of the
dam, and mill OF the Chester Paper Company,
aud the dixie OF the Highland Mills are swept
away. The streets are like river b DIS. At
Westield the loss IS fully ..s3OO,OOO The dixie
on the south side of the We ltield river over
flowed Tuesday tvening. The fire bells we're
rang aud the people turned out to patch up the
dIke; Ai;er working two hours, the water
overdowed and washed across Elm and through
Meadows streets, cutting off the csntre of the
town from the station. At the same time
dixie gave way q mile west of the village, pour
ing the water all through the section west and
east Tue stream across Elm street fought ia
10 feet deep. The cellars of ali tire stores on
Elm street nearly to The postoffi &c, q distance
of nalf a mile, are flooded The stream from
the west swep t Though Lincoln, Ffanklio and
Orange streets,n surrounded the f.ctories on
Elm street Dear the river, burs, througblths
embankment of the New Haven & Northsmp.
ton railroad which crosses the river and
mined the track thirty ro1s. Late at
night the gas went out. The bulldogs
destroyed were mostly in the vicinity of Elm
street Storrs & Turner'S organ factory, on
east side IT Elm street pear the river, was oar
| TALLY destroyed. Loss S15, 900 on he contents
Peck, 0 den & Co.'S whip factory is also gone,
! i1clut log brick stOr-rOom. The damage to
the stock alone is $4,000 Leonard Atwater's
unoccupied whip factory, Pfavin's iour-story
BRICK block; aud E. Avery's whip factory are
all smashed to pieces. The qua STA cup manu-
factory of D. 81. Shu,e, ne@r the bridge, is
| gone, and the ma eral scattered q mile down
the river. Loss $500 Pravin's block was
worth $4,000. Two wooden whip factories
were swept away with all their contents The
track OF the New Haven s. Northaupt rail-
way was injured to the extent Of $4,000 in a
! quarter of nile. In Center Village numerous
dwelling houses were taken off, bnt no lives
were lost. One house was taken up bodily and
settled in hole 10 feet beow the surface of the
grouhd and the occupants confned there for
several honrs The comfy bridges at the west
| end of the dam of Brane Bro,' pap-r mil, 10
Little River, two miles east of Medfirld We,
swept away. There is great loss in the TO wn
by dsmsge to the streets and sewers. The
river 10 cow rapidly slbsiding.