Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-14
new ENGLAND FLOODED
Great Rains and Thaw Do Immense
Damage
In Massachusetts. Rivers and Ca
nails Overflow,
Sweeping Away Bridges and Houses
and Stopping Mills.

BosTON. February l3.-The rainfall in
this section is almost unprecedented. In
this city the fall has been nearly six inches
in two days, equal to the average fall oi
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
wooden mills is gone and the mill has been
swept awey The Union straw works and
Canton Bros. 4 Bixbeys straw works are
lettering at Canton. Kingsley iron works,
Washington mill, Revere Copper Co.. g
works more or less flooded, in danger Of
destruction. Outward traffic on the Bos.
ton and Providence railroad is suspended
owing to numerous washouts. The burst
ing Of Stoney Brook sewer on Clay street,
Boston Highlands, last night was caused
by the confinement Of Stoney brook within
too narrow limits, az that section Of the
city covering near square mile was
overAowed, flooding Easements Of
all dwellings aud stores, driving
re.iden,s to the upper stories and causing
a loss of $l5O,00O, Several hundred fsmi.
lies are affected, several factories at Brocken
and outlying lands are flooded and many
mill Easements are flooded; loss $50, 600
At Peabody the water is four feet deep.
Washington street flood is the worst ever
known. Loss $4,000. In Middlesex
county rivers and streams are higher than
for ten years and many mills are shut
down. AT Tarenton the Old Colony
Railroad refuses to sell tickets 10 most
points along it's line. Business men are
moving stock to d safe place Over one
hundred men are engaged in trying to
save Moores bridge dam, which, if lost,
will entail unprecedented ruin and disas
ter. A wall OF rock and cotton waste has
been erected one hundred feet on each
side bat the water is pouring over the road
three feet deep Some factories are in dan
ger of flooding At East Weymouth every
factory is closed Whitmars pond dam is
giving away. This will food the entire
valley. At Concord, n. H., and further
north telephone and telegraph wires are all
down. Great ruin and damage on every
hand. The snow is rapidly disappearing
and the worst is not yet. At Peabody for
600 feet Main street is under water to a
depth of thirty six inches. Over twenty
tsnneries are flooded and several families
have been rescued in boats. A! Quincy,
the canal is overAowing and factories are
under water.
At Hudson, Mass the river overtlowed
carving away most Of the bridges between
Westbow and Hudson. Railroad travel is
almost entirely suspended. Many other
cities and towns are reported under water.
Water everywhere, cellars and Easements
are flooded, Ihsijgss gone, and loWlands
submerged kThe damage will be many
thousands ot sollaFs. In Boston High
land district, Westminster Apartment
Hotel will be complete wreck.
Daellirgs are flooded and as the
streets are mostlv Of three
story marble fronts, and as the ground bad
settled greatly before the food it is proba'
Jle that most of this section will have to
be rebuilt. Serious floods have inundated
large section OF lowland occupied BY
te1ements, and in Dorchester easements
and first hoors are shoat and the occu'
pants are unable to leave their homes.
The food calsed shutting down Of both
factories Of the Boston Belling Company
and the Roxbury carpet works.
THE PoTcMAc L.
WAsHXGrCy, d. G February l3.-The
Potomac is still rising and the ice is gorged
at many places between here and Harper 8
Ferry. There is some hope tonight that
the gorge below the city can be broken
through and that serious damage By fooda
may be thus s7erted