The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
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O00,000--A Government Fleet at st.
Louis Badly Damaged by Floating Ice.
BosToN, Feb. 16.-The flood at this point
is abating, bnt SO slowly as to be scarcely
perceptihle. The same can not be said,
however, in connection with a majority of
the submerged points throughout this and
adjacent New England States. Reports re-
ceived last night from six hundred towns
show majority yet in peril, and convey a
faint idea OF the damage sustained.
To summarize results, there are more
than ten thousand people homeless in Bos-
ton and vicinity, and the property dam
age viii foot up from $3.000,000 to S.
900, 900 in the Boston inundation. The
loss elsewhere in Massachusetts is roughly
computed at 81 900, 900; in Rhode Island,
81 ,000,0 Connecticut, 5000, 900, and in
New Hampshire, $175,000. 1t win require
many months to repair the damage done
to dams and mill and factory interests.
Some of the valleys are literally strewn
with what last Saturday was valuable ma
chinery.
While the angry features Of the flood in
cess of destruction of property has scarcely
vet been stayed. Before the flood the
ground was frozen to an unusual depth
by the severe cold of two weeks
ago. The prolonged soaking has by
frost. When this process has been COM
pleted it is feared that many buildings will
collapse. The Inspector OF buildings and
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such accidents. They are apprehensive
that buildings may fall where least expect
ed, as collapse is liable to occur without
previous warning. At the same time they
do not feel justified in condemning every
building in the district. TO do so would
compel the eviction of fully eight thousand
people, and great suffering would follow.
The work of the overseers of the poor
and other charitable people and organiza-
tions has just begun. The suffering among
the homeless was not seriously felt until
yesterday. There are now hundreds of
applications for aid. Food, fuel and cloth
ing are needed. The authorities have
given assistance already to seven hundred
, families and Others are applying in scores.
A public subscription list has been opened,
and several thousand dollars have already
| been given by prominent citizens to the re-
lief fund. The board of aldermen last
night appropriated fifteen thousand dol
lars for the same purpose.
An impressive scene occurred yesterday
on Belmont street, where Mrs Leahy had
died. The undertaken obliged to go TO
the house on raft and to ferry the corpse
and the mourners to terra frma by its
means. Willing spectators on high ground
lent their aid, and dory was also put in
requsition, so that the funeral party was
enabled to reach the neighboring church OF
st. Francis de Sales.
At Taunton there has been a fall OF
twenty-one inches in the ponds. Business
of all kinds is suspended. The damage at
the. Whittendon mill will be large, the
wooden mill known as No. having fallen.
1t is thought number of buildings
will fall when the water recedes, adding
to the damage, which is already estimated
, arrived in three days.
In Haverhill since Sunday morning, the
water has risen three feet and is still rising.
The total loss throughout the city is $780,
900. When the ice in the river above gives
way the destruction of property must be
immense.
tory in Franklin yielded to the enormous
pressure of the accumulated floods and fell
with a crash. The country below is flood
ed, but full particulars of the extent of the
damage have not yet been received. The
road between Wrentham and Franklin is
impossible. Fears are entertained that the
dams below will give way.
The condition of affairs at Squambetty,
civ 11oi1aC from North NIid6IabOrn 10 tho
worst in that part of the State. The Ne
masket and Bridgewater rivers unite, form
ing the Taunton river, which drains TWEEN
ty square miles. This is roaring torrent,
and it's overflow in some places is a mile
wide. The iron-works settlement is sub
merged, and the smaller buildings are float
ing.
The flood that swept through the She
tucket and Quinnebaug river valleys, in
Connecticut, since Friday morning, is the
most destructive in the history of the
State. One-quarter of Norwich was ten
feet under water for nearly twenty-four
hours In the lower business streets all
communication between stores, hotels,
saloons and boarding and private houses
was carried on by means of boats at
ten cents passenger. At Jewett City,
dam, two of the Slater mill dams the
Slater dve-house and machine shop, and
two big iron railroad bridges were swept
away. The damage there is $200,000-
The 500, 900 dam at Greenville, two miles
above Norwich, went to pieces. A score OF
mills will be stopped until it is rebuilt, and
thousands of working people are out OF
employment. The total loss in that part
of the State will exceed 81 100000.
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 16.-The Government feet
which was anchored behind Carroll's Island
has been injured by floating ice perhaps to
aserious extent. The feet is an extensive
one, consisting OF three steamers, forty
barges and about twenty-five pile-drivers,
and was valued at about 100000
The harbor where it was anchored
was supposed to be the safest
in this part of the river, but the
great force of the floating ice caused
all the boats to break from their moorings
and float down the river. Major Ernest
of the corps of civil engineers, states that
he has received dispatches from Chester
III, to the effect that seven of the barges
have been recovered at that point, all in
good condition. No estimate of the total
damage can be made, as only a few Of the
whole number of vessels have been heard
from.
PoRr JERvIs, N. Y, Feb. 16.--Miles OIL
land in Orange County, N. Y, and extend
ing into Sussex County, N. j., are mum,
dated by the overflow OF the Waikiki. The
roads are impossible. Thousands of ties
to be used in the construction of the Old
South Mountain railroad have been washed
away. Several mill dams have been de-
0yad nv the Hooda
Opium eaters appear to be unfor
tunate in their attempts to find a royal
road out of their habit. Those who
sought painless cure in cocaine found
the cocaine habit worse than the opium,
and quite recently case is reported in
Paris of man suffering from "the
paraldehyde habit which he acquired
while subduing his mania for morphine.
Paraldehyde was introduced into medi-
cine in 1888 Chicago Herald.
Grape scarfs in delicate colors are
worn exactly as they were in the days
of our grandmothers and great-great-
grandmothers, tied around the shout
ders with the ends falling on the skirt,
and, in the old fashion, they have a