Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-02-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Fehrnnrr EInnh..

no msnomer Of the one which swept
over the three southern states of New Eng
land last Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The
heavy rains Of Friday and Saturday, inoreas.
ed by the melting snow, raised the streams
to an unprecedented height, causing an i'm
mense amount Of trouble, suffering and dam
age. The worst report comes from the ROx
bury district of Boston, where over 800 acres
have been submerged, and the damage in
that section alone is estimated at 81 600, 600
About noon Friday Stony Brook, small
stream which drains the western part Of the
city, had risen 30 high that a breech appear.
ed on Texas avenue, through which the pent |
up waters rushed carrying dismsy to first
floors in the adjoining section. Other breaks |
occurred soon after aud the water continued |
to rise until about 10 A NJ Sunday, at which |
time the flooded district extended from Hunt. |
ington avenue to Washington street, a dis.
trict inhabited previous to the freshet by |
more than 5000 people The streets had to !
be navgated in RATS and boats aud many
families were cut of from supplies. The
Boston Betting company is one Of the most
serious losers, as their works we're 80 situated
that they we're among the first to be flooded,
and as their goods we're Of bulky kind they
could not be easily moved. About 5000 per
sons are receiving relief from the overseers
of the poor in Boston as a result of the
food, aud all subscriptions and other meas
ures taken to help the sufferers will be need.
ed for the next few days to keep them from
destituton. In some parts Of the submerged
district diptheria and maarisl diseases have
appeared, and doctors have been enlisted to
care for such cases
The ravages of the water in the cities aud
towns SO near Boston as to be termed sub.
urbs have been proportionally as great as in
the city itself Maiden, Newton, Brockton,
Canton, Winchester, Q lincy, Peabody, Wey-
mouth, Watertown aud Swampscott report
the heaviest pecuniary damage to factories
aud highways, while dozen other towns
are sufferers to an extent wholly unpreceden-
ted. Haverhill and othsr places along the
Merrimack river have lost thousands OF DOL
lars worth Of property.
In Connecticut the region about Norwich
has suffered most seriously. Tde waters in
/ the Shetucket and Yantic rivers at Norwich
rose nearly 80 feet in - hours. The dam at
| Greenvile, a part of Norwich built in 1882
at a cost of $40, OOO is ruined and will have
to be rebuilt. The old Greenville dam has
also been carried away. This disaster re-
moves the source Of supply for all mills in
that village and deprives many hundred peo-
pie Of employment for an ind, time.
The several paper manufactures will put in
force pumps and secure water from the river,
all the mills being supplied with steam pow
or. The total loss in the vicinity Of Norwich
will reach $3.50, 600
The report from Rhode Island is a melau.
choly record OF broken mill dams and bridges,
crippled railways aud flooded manufacturing
towns The loss in this state is spproxim ate
ly estimated at 81 600, 600.
Connections by railroad have been almost
entirely cut of, many bridges having been
swept away and wash outs are reported all
along the lines The Boston and Albany
station at South Framingham was the scene
OF great activity Sunday, owing to the wash
out of the tracks at Natick. Hundreds Of
passengers arrived from New York. Spring
field, Worcester and other points. All we're
transferred around the break in barges and
wagons, pressed into service from South
birmingham and adjacent towns. It was
not until 1870 o'clock Sunday morning that
the last Of the passengers who had come from
New York on the train due in Boston at 10 30
P. NJ. Saturday had been taken to SaXonville
and forwarded by trains from there. The
New York trains were loaded with unusually
large numbers of passengers, owing to the
I travel being suspended on the shore line be-
tween New London and Providence.
The Republican Of Wednesday says: The
Connecticut river at Springfield has not beer
very wild Of late years, and in the numerous
/ freshets has done nothing to be ashamed Of
Its last record was in the great food Of Octo
Der. 1869, when on the Sth at 1 p. NJ. il reached
] the height of 81 feet above low water mark
? That was the year in which it brought doS,
quantities of wreckage from the overA9wet
g farms to the north, where, aided by iA trib
t utaries, it had proved itself liable at time
g to be a turbulent, untrust worthy stream
= Other high water recorded wss in the earl
e spring of 1865, when at one TYNE the swollei
3 river stood at % feet inchEaboye low water
o mark and about May 8, I $50 wh.n il wa
t % feet inches above. Ii was an inch high
!. err still in the spring OF 1854. Mopds,
e reading OF the seSiie found the river at l
feet inches ABOVE the low mark at p NJ
and yesterday it was 10 feet inches.
BAr sMAsH-UP ON THE BOSTON LOWELL RoAI
a II One man was killed and eight severed
injured by disastrous collision of two pa
J. senger trains at Wilmington, Mass, on Ii
Lowell RAILROAD, last Friday evening. Atrial
Is from Boston for Lawrence attempted TO cro
&c the inward track TO regain the main line, an
= the Montreal day express reached the poiI
&c of crossing at almost the same instant. Tt
u. engine Of the former train struck the side
! the express locomotive a glancing blow, swel
~ by and overturned the baggage car, and the
al tore off the side of the Pullman car which fC
&c lowed. man who was stealing ride
CT the front platform of the local train was XII
ed, eight passengers and employees on Il
Montreal train were severely injured and OF
ers slightly. DR.. Z. NJ Nelson of Lowe
whose name has been prominently mention,
u in connection with the recent Lancaster bar
PS troubles, received compound fracture Of Il
- a. left leg a severe confusion OF the right kne
and several bruises about the head and bod
An The accident seems to have been due sole
u to the action of the engineer of the Lawren
III train, who ran upon the main track when 4
'e signals were against him. The story Of q
10 disaster is chiefly remarkable for its dispI
y portionate effect upon life aud limb, when t
great violence Of the collision is considered
AT Webb City, Mo-, last week Thursd
IN evening, two miners had located heA
ne charge of IS sticks of giant powder for
TX final blast aud were tamping it down VIII
hg the whole amount exploded. The larg,
sss fragments of the bodies that were found VT
" foot aud part of a leg.
w The starving fishermen of the destit,
maritime county of Bonaventure p. q. mI
Io 81 dened by long continued privstou, have
-al sorted to mob law. An excited crowd of 3
~ French. Canadians at the town of Paspebi
.e place of 1000 inhabitants on the coast ra
~, ~ ed two large stores on Monday and carried
'ho about 2GO barrels Of -four.
Ihs The Austrian barque Kraljevika v
's6 wrecked of Barnegst Shoals, N. j., last We
nv Thursday. The life-saving crew of Barne
re station went to her assistance, when ia
he boat was swamped and three of the men W
as drowned. A boat containing the ships or
ma capszed, and eight sailors persisted the C
the tain and FIVE men swan ashore.
md "A strike was inaugurated in the Am
ate keag mills at Manchester, N. H., Monday,
ent 5000 operatives are idle. They asked for
'ic advance OF 20 per cent in wages, but W
ing refused and the mills we're shut down.
to less the strikers consent to return GU tel
offered by the company, it is given out,
mills will stay closed until April.
Moody and Sankey are drawing imme
exy crowds in New Orleans.
lia The Apaches recently attacked the raj
90 of William johnson at Black Rock
ons Mexico, while only johnson aud his yol
otb bride were on the premises. They took
uge in chicken house, from which
was kept up for an hour, the husband do
I'm the shooting and the wife loading the u
o'ii Johnson was shot through the body
-, thigh, and had one arm broken. When
the Indians retrested Mrs. johnson hitohed 1
leld team, placed her wounded husband in
MS wagon, and drove twenty miles to ]
ave Thomas