Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-17
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. TRACES OF THE FLOODS Left In The Homes Of The
 Poor. MUCH SICKNESS AT BOSTON. Great Losses In Eastern
 Connecticut. THE LAST RITES AT UTICA. Seven Deaths Caused By
 An Incendiary,
SIGHTS AND SCENES AT BOSTON.


 The Water Nearly aone, But sickness and want Following tn It's Wake. BosToN, Feb. 16.-The water which for | four days has covered two square miles Of the city in the Roxbury district has for the most part disappeared. To-day the water was reduced to from thirty to fifty ponds that hold possession of baekyards and All de- pressions in the streets. The danger of washouts and buildings falling down from undermining Is over, but the greater danger from full cellars exhailng moisture and miaHina that will come up and fill the homes with sickness is now the great foe to contend with, the eonquering of which bids fair to be far greater task than the subju= gatien ef the waters. "1t ia impossible" said Dr. Dixwsll Ito approximate the amount of sickness that will result from the flood. The cellars of most of the heHses are new full of water, and if the predicted cold weather reaches Us before 1t can be drained of the results will be verse than otherwise, Hundreds of children are exposed in such manner that eroup, colds and pneumonia will be very prevalent. There are now some thousand patients which demand immediate attention and the number is increasing every hour. Three eonsumptives have been driven to the point of death by the dampness Great mortality in the flooded district is ex- pected. People coming to the station house at the rate of one every ten minutes and asking for aid. They were more plenti- ful to-day because they can get out and do not have to communicate their wants through the medium of an agent. In addition to their supplies of coal, wood and wraps, med icines are in demand and doctors walk all the streets in company with the police and agents of the poor, dealing out drugs and cordials to those who need them. Six large furniture wagons are loaded to their utmost milk, coffee, baked beans, corned beef, bacon, potatoes, salt fish and dry wood, to say nothing of the immense num- Der of loaves of bread, and each team is allotted district to cover. As each wagon load is distributed the team heads for the old Bates house on Cabot street to be re- plenished. At o'clock this morning the days supplies began to arrive and by 10 o'clock five hundred large loaves of bread, one hundred and eighty quarts of milk, about one hundred and nine quarts of coffee, six gross of canned corned beef, one hundred bushels of potatoes, one gross canned baked beans, three huge cases of bacon and about two hundred pounds of salt fish had arrived and major portion of the supplies had been distributed among the families, and yet about one-haf are still unsupplied. The fund for the distressed now reaches $6, ,564.
 Ice Gorges in the Merrimas.
 NASHUA, N. H., Feb. 16.-Great fields of ice are passing down the Nashua river into the Merrimac and forming immense gorges. The backbone of the flood, however, is evil dently broken here. The Merrimac is slowly but surely falling Little damage has been done on it's banks aside from the loss of time of mills and operatives.
 The First Mail Since Friday.
 NEWPORT, R. l., Feb. 16.-The first mail from Boston since Friday came this morn ing by way of New York and Boston short line.
 The Waters Higher At Dedham.
 DEDHAM, Mass., Feb. 16.-The flood is six inches higher than it was last evening. The dwelling houses on Washington, East and High streets are flooded and the inmates can be seen cooking food upstairs. Men are still busy strengthening the dams. If these dams burst nothing can prevent the water destroying mills and houses, and couIsing down to Hyde Park, carrying ruin and deso- lation. At Hyde Park the factories cannot start III next Monday.
 The Mills Closed at Lowell.
 LOWELL, Mass, Feb. 16.-It is estimated that five thousand people have been thrown temporarily out of employment by the freshet here Anonp the eopcernS closed are the