Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-07
GREAT CURIOSITY DESTROYED
particulars OF the Fall OF the White
Mountain Boulder OF the FluMc.

Lincoln. N. H., correspondence Of the Con-
cord Monitor has the followlng:-
started Thursday, 2lst, on business trip to
Lincoln Arriving at Plymouth. learned that
| the Pemi2ewasset valley railroad was washed
out and no trains could run for several days.
| stepped aboard the mail stage, and after q
| ride of twelve or fourteen miles was invited to
step out, nine miles this side Of my destination,
to make the rest of my journey the best way
| that l could through wreck and ruin. Last
Wednesday, early in the forenoon, the clouds
| began to thicken and settle down In the noun
tain region, and between 10 and II o'clock the
lightning was seen darling in all directions,
and the heavy roar Of thunder gave warning
that terrible shower was near at hand. Soon
rain fell in torrents, such as was never known
by the ''oldest inhabitant." During the heaviest
OF the shower, a thunderbolt that Jared the
country for miles around darted down, entering
Mount Liberty. or the South Hay Stack, near
the top. starting mass OF rock down the steep
| side, which widened and deepened as it pushed
its huge bulk along, leaving channel fifty or
sixty feet wide and about thirty feet Deep The
| Hood of water. carrying the huge mass with all
OF the heavy forest with It, entered the stream
about half q mile above the Flume. cutting
| away both sides of the stream in it's course;
| then entering the Flume, swept away the pine
| log lying across the top of the high walls, and
| the great boulder that has hung 80 many years
suspended between the WallS-a wonder to
| thOusands-and bearing it down stream about
1000 feet below its old resting place beside the
newly cut channel. The water was raised to the
| height of nearly fifty feet in the Flume After
| passing the highest part of the Flume it spread
| to the right and left, taking down nearly two
acres the heavy forest clean. Everytree large
and small, was stripped Of its limbs and bark
and broken into fragments There must have
| been more than 100, 600 feet of timber, besides
large quantity Of small wood, swept down in
Its course of nearly one and half miles. The
great bulk Of the stone that was taken down
was lodged on the 'apron," covering more than
two-thirds Of 1t with huge blocks OF stone many
| feet deep, and clearing Off new "aprpn'
lower down. Nearly all of the space from the
bridge up to the lower end Of the Flume is
| covered with stone and broken timber.
little south of this was another slide, much
| larger than the one described, but 1t did not
reach the Flume Brook There was one also on
the east branch about the same time, as shown
by the green trees that foated down that stream
for nearly two hours. 1t appears that a very
large slide came down many years ago above
the Flume, which may have made the great
boulder that has just been forced from it's posi-
ton by this torrent. tits worth going a long
distance to see what has been done by water in
so short time. for no pen can describe the
! reality. Some think 1t has added to the natll-
| raj attractions Of the place.