St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14
Seven States Bordering on the Atlantic
Suffering From an Aggravated Case
of Liquid Torment.
Many Millions of Dollars Worth OF All
Sorts of Property Destroyed by the
Raging Floods
Mills, Factories, Houses, streels anu
Railways Inundated and Bridges
Swept Away.
Five Hundred Boston People Forced
to Live in the Second Stories OF
Their Houses.
Terrible Results of a Rainfall.

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 Freeman's
woolen mill is gone, and the mill has been
swept away. The Union straw works are
flooded, and Canton Bros. & Bixlay's
straw works are tottering. At Canton
the Kingsley Iron works, the Washing
ton mill and the Revere Copper company's
works are more or less flooded and in dan
ger of destruction. Outward traffic on the
Boston 81 Providence railroad is suspended,
owing to numerous washouts. By the
bursting of the Stoneybrook sewer on Clay
street. Boston Highlands, last night. caused
by the confinement of StOney brook within
too narrow limits, a section of the city
covering near a square mile was overtiowed,
flooding the easements of all the dwellings
and stores, driving the residents into the
upper stories and causing a loss of
Sl5O, 900. Several hundred families
are affected, and several factories at
Brockton and outlying land are flooded.
Many mill Easements are flooded and the
loss is $50, 600. at Peabody the water is
four feet deep on Washington street and
the food is the worst ever known. The
loss will reach $500, 900. In Middlesex
county the rivers and streams are higher
than for ten years and many
MILLS HAVE SHUT DOWN.
At Yaunton the Old Colony railroad re-
fuses to sell tickets to most points on its
line. Business men are moving their
stocks to safe place. Over one
hundred men are engaged in trying
to save Morey's bridge dam, which. if lost,
will entail unprecedented ruin and disaster.
A wall of rock and cotton waste has been
erected 100 feet on each side, but the water
is pouring over the road three feet deep.
Some factories are in danger of floating.
At East Weymouth every factory
is closed. Whitman's pond dam is
on the point of giving way.
This will food the entire valley and
the track of the food Is strewn with all
manner of debris, including dead fowl and
animals. At Concord, n. H., and further
north the telephone and telegraph wires are
all down. There is great ruin and damage
on every hand. The snow is rapidly dis
appearing and the worst Is not yet At
Peabody, Mass, for 600 feet the main
street is under water to depth of thirty-siX
inches. Over twenty tanneries are flooded
and several families have been rescued in
boats. At Quincy the canal is overflowing
and factories are under water. AT Hud-
son, Mass, the river has overfiowed, carry
ing off most OF the bridges between West
boro and Hudson. Tower Bros. machine
shop Il. S. Carter & Co.'s and Morton &
Chamberlain's shoe factories are closed.
All railroad travel is
ALMOST ENTIRELY SUSPENDED.
Many other cities and towns are reported
under water. Water is everywhere. Gel
lars and Easements are flooded, bridges are
gone and the low lands are submerged.
The damage will be many thousands of
dollars. In the Boston Highland district
the Westminster Apartment hotel will be a
complete wreck. The dwellings on the
flooded streets are mostly three story mar
bic fronts, and, as the ground had
settled greatly before the flood, it is proba-
bic 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 flood has inundated large section
of the low land occupied by tenementS in
Dorchester. The basement and first floors
are atioat, and the occupants are unable to
leave their homes. The flood has
caused the shutting down of both factories
of the Boston Betting company and the
Roxbury Carpet works. The German
Baptist church on Vernon street is under
mined, and liable to collapse at any moment.
There is seven feet of water in the base
ment of the Ruggles Street Baptist church.
The water is still rising in the flooded dis
tricts.
AT 'ATTLEBoRo. MASS,
the streets are full of water. Whitney's
dam is gone and the dam at Mechanics
mill will probably go. No trains are run
ring and no mail has arrived. AT Fitch
burg the storm has isolated the city. All
al, 10
and only one telegraph wire is working. AT
Maiden, Mass, Barretts pond overhowed
last night, flooding the lower stories of all
buildings on its banks. Ten thousand cases
of goods in COchrans print works are under
five feet of water. The damage is estimated
at $40. 900. Many store cellars are flooded.
The cotton factory of George K. Goulding
is flooded aud $4,000 worth OF
cotton ruined. The loss in that
city is estimated at $50. 600 and more
damage is expected. AT Gloucester
the flood is the greatest ever known.
The streets are impossible and many
houses are flooded and the furniture in
them destroyed. at Essex great damage
has been done to the railroads. Bridges
are down and road-beds destroyed. Mayor
O'Brien has instructed the overseers of the
poor to raise all the money they possibly
can to relieve the sufferers by the floods.
The RoXbury Carpet company, the Boston
Betting company and others have filed
claims
AGAINST THE CITY
for damages OccasiOned by the floods. AL
the pumping engines in the city are being
used to pump out cellars. Over five hun.
dred people are confined to upper storie.
and have TO be supplied with provisions b,
boats. So badly is traffic interrupted tha
every conceivable kind of water craft was
forced into service to enable the imprisoned
ones to pass to and from their houses. Th,
Boston Betting company's factory is al
most afioat. Their loss is over SIS, 600
The Roxbury Carpet company's loss is $50,
600. Two hundred houses on Fremon
street are damaged SO. 600 and 400 house
ON Ruggles, Spencer, Winter, Cabot anC
Culver streets total of 500, 600. Their
were many narrow escapes iron
drowning to-day. At FoXboro, Mass, hal
of Charles Freeman's wool securing mil
was carried away. The FoXboro foundry
T. M. Stevens & Co.'s leather board mil
and Bixby's straw goods factory are dam
aged $50. 600. The Boston d Providenc
railroad tracks out of West Mansfield ar
washed away and the river Is howin
through the roadbed.
Pennsylvania a Heavy Suffcrer'
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-The rain. whic
had been falling almost incessantly for tw
days. stopped about noon to-day, but u
weather continues somewhat foggy. he
ports OF floods at various poinl
continue to be received. In tn
neighborhOOd of Kingston N. Y.