Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-15
new ENGLAND FLOODED
Great Rains and ThaW Do Immense
Damage
In Mas saChusetts. Rivers and Ca
nails Overflow,
Sweeping Away Bridges and Houses
and Stopping Mills.

BosroN. February l3.-The rainfall in
this section is almost unprecedented. In
this city the fall has been nearly six inches
in two days, equal TO the average fall of
two months. A vast amount OF minor
damage has been done in many parts Of
New England, especially to roads and
bridges, causing irksome delays to travel.
At Foxboro, Mass, the dam at Freemans
wooden mills is gone and the mill has been
swept away. The Union straw works and
Canton Bros. & Bixbey's straw works are
lettering at Canton. Kingsley iron works,
Washington mill, Revere Copper Co.'S
works more or less flooded, nsdanger of
distraction. Outward traffic on the Bos'
ton and Providence railroad is suspended
owing to numerous wsshouts. The burst
ing Of Stoney Brook sewer on Clay street,
Boston Highlands, last night, WAS caused
by the confinement OF Stoney brook within
too narrow imits, as that section Of the
city covering near square mile was
ovtrfowed, flooding easements of
all dwellings and stores, driving
residents to the upper stories aud causing
O. loss of $l50,OOO, Several hundred fami'
lies are affected several factories at Broken
and outlying lands are flooded ant many
mill Easements ara Hooded loss $50, 900.
At Peabody the water is four feet deep.
Washington street flood is the worst ever
known. Loss $4,000. In Middlesex
county rivers and streams are higher than
for ten years and many mills are shut
down. At Tarenton the Old Colony
Railroad. refuses to sell tickets to most
points along it's line. Business men are
moving stock to q safe place. Over one
hundred men are engaged in trying TO
save Moore's bridge dam, which, 1t lost,
will entail unprecedented ruin aud disas
ter. A wall Of rock and cotton waste has
been erected one hundred feet on each
side but the water is pouring over the road
three feet deep. Some factories are in dan
ger of flooding. At East Weymouth every
factory is closed. Whitmar's pond dam is
giving away. This will food the entire
valley. At Concord, n. d.. and further
north telephone and telegraph wires are all
down. Great ruin and damage on every
hand. The snow is rapidly disappearing
and the worst is not yet. At Peabody, for
600 feet Main street il under water 10 q
depth of thirty six inches. Over twenty
,anneries are flooded and several families
have been rescued in boats. At Quincy
the canal is OVERLOOKING and factories are
under water.
At Hudson, Mass, the river overtiowed
carving away most of the bridges between
Westbow and Hudson. Railroad travel IS
almost entirely suspended. Many other
cities and towns are reported under water
Water everywhere, cellars and Easements
are flooded, bridges gone, and loWlsnds
submerged. The damage will be many
thousands Of dollars. In Boston High
land district, Westminster Apartment
Hotel will be complete wreck.
Daellings are flooded and IS the
streets are mostly Of three
story marble fronts and as the ground had
settled greatly before tue Hoou " 70 Pi0'H
BILE that most of this section will have to
be rebuilt Serious floods have inundated
a large section OF lowland occupied by
tenements and iu Dorchester Easements
and first floors ore sAoat and the occu'
pants are unable to leave their. homes.
The flood cansed shutting down OF both
factories Of the Boston BeluDg Company
and the Roxbury carpet works.
THE POTOMAC UT.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February i6.-The
Potomac is still rising and the ice is gorged
at many places between here and Harper
Ferry. There is some hope tonight that
the gorge below the city eau be broken
through and that serious damage by floods
may be thus ayerted.
THE SHENANDOAH BOOMING.
HARRIsoHBURG, Va, February Ia
Rain and warm weather are carrying oil
the immense snow in the mountains snc
has caused q great rise in all the tribu
taries of the Shenandoah river, and dam
aging flood is imminent.