The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
HIGH WATERS In THE EAST.
A Number of Massachusetts Towns In
undated, Causing Heavy Damage.
New York, New Jersey, Maryland and Penn
syiyania Also Suffer from Surplus of
Water-Railway Travel Impeded.

is unprecedented. In this city the fall has been
nearly six inches in two days. A vast amount of
minor damage has been Zone in many parts of
New England, especially to roads and bridges,
causing rksome delays to travel. At Foxboro.
Mass, the dam at Freeman's woolen-mill is gone
and the mill has been swept away The Union
straw works are flooded, and Banton Brothers &
Bixby's straw works are tottering.
AT Canton. Kingsley's iron works, the Wash
ingtoD mill, and the Revor Copper Company's
works were more or less injured.
Outward traffic on the Boston & Providence
railroad is suspended, owing to numerous wash
outs. The bursting of the Stoney brook sewer.
on Cays street, Boston Highlands, last night,
caused by the confinement of Stoney brook with
in too narrow limits, flooded section of the city
covering nearly a square mile. inundatng the
easements of all cellars and stores, driving the
residents into the upper stories, and causing a
loss of $4,000. Several hundred families are
affected, and several families at Brockton and
outlying towns are closed. Many mill base
ments are flooded. and the loss is $50. 900.
At Peabody the water is four feet deep on
Washington street, and the food is the worst
ever known. The loss will reach 5000
In Middlesex county the streams are higher
than for ten years. and many mills have sus-
pended Business men are moving their stocks
to safe place. Over one hundred men are en-
gagged in trying to save Morris bridge dam,
which, if lost, will entail unprecedented de-
struction. A wall os rock aud cotton waste has
been erected one hundred feet deep on each side,
but the water is pouring over the road three feet
SOn6 factories in IF
At East Weymouth every factory is. closed.
Whiteman's pond is on che point of giving way
This will food the entire valley. The track of
the flood is strewn with all manner of debris,
including dead fowls and animals.
At Concord. N. H., and further north the
telephone and telegraph wires are all down.
There is great ruin and damage on every hand
The snow is rapidly disappearing, and the worst
is not yet
At Peabody, Mass, for 600 feet the main
street ia under water to depth of three feet
Over twenty tanneries are flooded and several
families have been rescued in boats.
AT Quincy the canal is overfowed and fac
tories are under water.
At Hudson, Mass, the river has overlooked.
carrying off most of the bridge between West
boro and Hudson. Tower Bros. machine shop,
T. s. Carter Co.'S, and Moreton e Chamber
lains shoe factories closed. Railroad travel
is almost entirely suspended
Many other cities and towns are reported un-
der water Water is everywhere: cellars and
Easements are flooded, bridges are gone and the
low lands are submerged. The damage will be
many thousands of dollars
In the Boston Highlands district the Westmin-
ster apartment hotel will be a complete wreck.
The dwellings on the flooded streets are mostly
three-story marble fronts and as the ground
had settled greatly before the food, it is prob
able that most of this section will have to be
built. Residents are living In the upper stories,
and are reached only by boats
A serious flood has inundated a large section
OF the low land occupied by tenements in Dor
chester. The Easements and first stories are
flooded, and the occupants are unable to leave
their homes. The food has caused the shut
ting down of both factories of the Boston Belt
ing Company and the Roxbury carpetworks
The German Baptist Church is undermined.
There is seven feet of water in the basement of
the Ruggles-street Baptist Church. The water
is still rising in the flooded districts.
A careful estimate places the damage by the
flood in Brockton at $751; 00 and SIS. 900 will be
needed to put the streets and bridges in good
condition. The water is subsiding but there is
a prospect of the ice in Cross 81 Towards pond
breaking up in which case the result would be
worse than has yet been felt. The work of re-
moving women and children from the path of
the flood by boats and carriages was continued
all last night. The hotels and several public
halls are filled with these unfortunates, and the
city supplies them with food Work is suspend
ed in many flooded factories. Railroad commu-
nication is entirely shut off.
At Attleboro, Mass, the streets are full of
water Writings dam is gone and the mill will
probably 60. No trains are running and no mail
has arrived
At Fitchburg all telegraph and irealarm wires
are down, and only one telegraph wire is work
ing.
last night, flooding the lower stories of all build
ings on its banks Ten thousand cases of goods
in Cochran's print works are under FIVE feet of
water, and the damage is estimated at 500. 900.
Many store cellars are flooded. The cotton
factory of George K. Goulding is flooded, and
$40 900 worth of. cotton ruined. The loss in
that city is estimated at $4,000 and more dam
age is expected.
At Gloucester the food is the greatest ever
known. The streets are impossible. and the
furniture In the second stories has been destroyed
in a great many homes.
Mayor O'Brien, of Boston. has instructed the
overseers of the poor to devote all the money
they can possible collect to the benefit of the
sufferers by the flood. ALI the pumpin engines
in the city are being used to pump out eellers.
Over 500 families are confined to upper stories,
and have to be supplied with provisions by
boats. So badly is ordinary traffic interrupted
that every conceivable kind of water craft was
forced into service to enable the imprisoned ones
to pass to and from their houses.
The Roxburv Carpet Companys loss is $50, 900.
Two hundred houses on Fremont street are dam
aged SIC. 900, and forty-eieht houses on four
other streets, a total of 100000. There were
many NARROW ESCAPES lTOm uToWuiuS 10 quay
AtFoxbury, Mass, half of Charles Freemans
wool securing mill was carried away. The Fox
bury foundry and Cation Brothers & Bixby's
straw goods factory are damaged $50, 900.
The Boston & Providence railway track south
of West Mansfield is washed away and the river
is flowing through the road-bed.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13-The rain which had
been falling almost necessarily for two days
stopped about noon to-day, but the weather con-
tinues somewhat foggy. Reports of foods at
various points continue to be received In the
neighborhood of Kingston, n. Y, the water is
very high, and freshets have occurred at several
places in the Catskills.
At Dundee, n. j., the railroad bridges have
been weakened by having number of their sup
ports knocked out. The Passaic river is five
feet above high water mark and still rising.
At Harrisburg, Pa, the ice in the Susque-
hanna broke this morning. doing considerable