Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
Destructive storm.

--Tbe beavy rain OF Monday night ID, y
Tpssdav nreveiled throughout vide eI-
Of country. and caused great damage ms
sections At Springfield this state, the
of The Vsrmont Novelty Worn gave
causing loss Of over $1,000 70 me conf
and flooding the country below A. Note.
Reld the water was the highest since
freshet Of 1869. One long uesNe on an.
| psvre branch Of the Central Vermont raillIi'
yss suant awny aud another badly damat-
Tn New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Yorh the streams we're also broken mp a
mncb damage done 10 roads and bridges. -
E,nira N Y, the Susque hanna river ros
feeI in az many hours, and considerable d.
ace was done. At Owego the Erie railr -
bpidge was carried away, aud the III
bronob of the Erie road bad to ha iempor'-
ly abandoned.
pannavivauia especially along the Lehi
and S1souehanna valleys, where ihe Hood
. most reached the high water marx o. IL
Railroad trains we're greatly delayed BY Ia
slides aud washouts, and In the mahon
, valley no less than ~ collieries were Hood
y In the anthracite coal region about WIZ
barre Ave collieries we're Hooded. One @
a nanv lost 90 mules by drowning A Il
east bound freight on the Pennsyltenia
= road fell through the bridge at nnerm
"a creek. 10 miles from Harrisburg Mon
- evenine. one Of the spans being weekene'
~ Tho bigb water. Eight cars wen into
~ water With Ave men. Two OF the crew
~ ceeded in rescuing the engineer, who
10 badlv hurt A brakeman named tnfbit
killed. The conductor is reported aeao,
the fireman and two brakeman arg nis'
Along the Driftwood and Sinnamaho
tie cracks millions Of logs broke from their
Ter eninOs and we're carried down streem.
It's sa,d The loss to lumbermen will reaoh TS
on 600 The roof, gable end and Chimney
On the Tyrone echool house in Dawson
ION blown down Monday during the ssqtm,
10 several children we're badly injured
al A severe wind and snow storm 81 IL
esS Paul and NJ nneapohI, Mimi, SUNDAY
I'm and the streets aud sidewalks we're olcck
'ars drifts two and three feet deep Ine
Ter, Taged generally throughout the nortfBe
lied the worst phase of the storm at We y
has the effect it will have upon the cattle
and eats. It is thought that the storm VII
Arge a high death rate in southern Colorta
oW- beosuae of the snow particularly, ouV a
. or NJ the Intensely cold weather and "
TWO winds. the mercury ranging from "
ks hslow zero. Along the Arkansas ven
lsid- herds are drifting to the river and
per nnmistakable evidences OF exposure
oau' tipue. In the mountain valleys "neF
lem. sands of cattle were lately driven %
sell oyerstocked ranges Of the plains, ting
liga- will prove excessively severe. 10 the
'dy,!a heard from, especially in western and
'pPh- ern Colorado, lying west OF the COM
was divide, the snow is reported to be uu
deep and the streams frozen.
ALI railroads west Of Kansas CITY
are blockaded with snow.
cd 10 A severe snow-storm prevailed |
= and out England on Weuhesu"y'
Of all -Dunlap's great hat factory at 81
! with NJ Y, extending from 20 to IS Nosir'
wrecks niue. was burned Saturday mornin
Iwyer, 5000, 900.
lost a The New York Commercial Bulle
and a mates the FIRE losses in the United st
rom q Canada during 1885 at $9l, 200, ooo,
IN Of 600 600 less than the previous year.
to see sx months OF 1885 showed mucf
in his loss than the first six months.
i'd him d. L. Moody, the evangelist, Is
others, ing A revival at Montreal.
outside An american Pasteur institute
lenever incorporated in New York city, the
le httle which are stated to be 1.-THE gratui'
lticatea aud treatment by the Pasteur system
smoked ulatiop of all persons threatened WI
lay, but Sor;n1 fron, hydrophobia."