Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-15
TALES OF THE TORRENT.
The Rush Of Many Waters Heard
With Terror Along New En-
glands Dismal Coast.
Wreck and Ruin Show the Course Of
the Water King ms lie Sweeps
Along COnquerIng.
Tho Mighty mississippi. uuris Aiott ita 10y
retters and Plays with tho uoa,s
That Flow his Breast.
rus rIoops n MASSACHUSETTS,.

4 THE FLOODS ~ MAssAcnusETrs.
RosroN, MASS, Feb. "a Tho rainfall
\ In this section is almost unprecedented.
In this city the fall has been nearly six
inches IN two days, equal 20 the average
/ fall of two months. A vast amount OF
minor damage has been done in many
parts OF New England, especially to roads
aud bridges, causing trksome delay to
travel AZ Foxboro, Mass, the dam at
I Frteman's WOODEN mills is gone and the
mill has been swept away. The Union
straw works arc tloodcd, and Canton
Bros. and BlXley's straw works
are tottering. At Canton Kings
ley's iron works, the Washington
mil and Revere Copper company's
works are more or less flooded and Ia
danger OF destruction. Outwardtraillc
on the Boston & Providence railroad Is
suspended owing to the numerous wash
outs. The bursting OF the Stoney brook
sewer on Clay street, Boston highlands,
last night, caused by the confinement OF
Stoney brook within too narrow limits Of
the city, covering nearly square mile,
was overlooked, flooding the Easements
OF all the dwellings and stores and driy-
Ing the residents into the upper stories.
Several hundred families are affected and
several factories at Brockton and outlying
lands are Hooded. Many mill Easements
are flooded. The loss Is $50 900. At
Peabody the water is four feet deep on
Washington street, and the hood Is the
worst ever known, The loss will reach
| $50, 600. In MiddleseX county the rivers
and streams are higher than for ten years,
aud many mills have shut down. Al
! Taunton the Old Colony railroad refuses
TO sell tickets 70 most points ON its line.
| Business men are moving their stocks TO
safe places Over two hundred
men are engaged in trying 10 save the
/ Morris bridge dam, which, IL lost, win
entail Unprecedented ruin aud disaster
| a wall OF rocks 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 danger OF flooding. At East Wey-
mouth every factory is closed. Whit
mans pond dam Is nov on
the point Of giving way, and
this will food the entire valley. The
truck OF the food il strewn with all man
ner Of debris, Including dead fowls aud
animals. AT Concord aud further north
the telephone and telegraph wires are all
down, There Is great ruin and damage
Oh tNtll Ht hnOM ~
rapidly disappearing aud the worst
Is not yet, AT Peabody, M0as,, for 600
feet the main street is under water to n
depth Of thirty-six inches. Over twenty
tanneries are flooded, and several fami.
lies have been rescued in boats At
Quincy the canal IL overlooking and
factories are under water. Az Hudson,
Mass, the river has oyerfiown, carrying
of most OF the bridges between West
boro and Hudson. Tower Bros. ma.
chine shops, =. I. Carriers 4 Co.
aud Morton 4 Chamberlain's shoe facto.
ries are closed. Railroad travel is almost
entirely suspended. Many other cities
and towns are reported under water.
Water Is everywhere. Cellars and base
ments are flooded, bridges are gone and
lowlands submerged. The damage viii
be many thousands OF dollars. In the
Boston highland district Westminster
apartment hotel Will be complete wreck
The dwellings on the flooded
streets are mostly three-story marble
fronts, and as the ground has settled
| greatly before the flood, 1t Is probable
that most OF this section will have TO be
rebuilt. Residents are living In the upper
stories, and are reached only by boats. A
serious Hood has inundated a large sec
ton OF the lowland occupied by tene-
ments. In Dorchester tho basement and
| first floors are afioat, and the occupants
cannot leave their homes The food has
caused the shutting down OF both tho fac
tories OF the Boston Betting company
aud the Roxbnry Carpet works. The
German Baptist church on Vernon street
is undermined and liable 10 collapse at
any moment. There Is seven feet OF
| tu4 for. In lao ng ~
Baptist church. Water II still rising In
the flooded districts.
PAwTUoKET DAM GONE.
FRANKLIN, Mass, Feb. i4---In addition
20 the immense losses resulting from the
foods, tle large Cumberland dam Of the
Pawtucket water-works, built last fall,
was swept away yesterday, causing u loss
Of 100000.
AT ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 1.-THE Ice In
the harb0r made another move last night,
and huge field Of perhaps several acres
In extent bToke of above elevator Il, Just
above Chouteau avenue, aud floating
down the Missouri shore II crowded and
crunchcd along until IL was stopped by
the solid mass which lay packed In tightly
from shore 10 shore from the cotton
compress south. On its way down, how.
ever u carried two ice aud two sand
barges from their moorings near elevator
b, and after playing With them awhile
| lodged them against the bank al Carroll
street without damage. At the foot OF
| llutger street Law the wrecking
steamer T. i. Eckert, owned by
Carroll q Powell, insurance agents,
and used by the marine underwriters.
This boat was struck with tremendous
force, and great chunks OF ice were piled
up against, and rolled over her guards.
The pressure was too great for her spars,
which had been rugged 10 keep her of
shore, and she was pushed parity ont on
the bank, and her side crushed In for
about sixty feet. II Is thought, however,
that she can easily be repaired. Further
down the Nellie Peck was crowded on
shore and lost her spars, and some other
minor damage was done.
This mOrning, between Z and 4