The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-15
uERRIMAC RACES.
More Water, By Far, Than
Anyone Wants in New
Hampshire.
MILLS STOPPED, BRIDGES DAMAGED
Vast Rats of Timber May Be
Lost-Interyales 0yerfowed-
Freshet Record Beaten.

PLYMOUTH. N. H. April is, 1856
Northern New Hampshire is flooded with
water Rain began falling Saturday
morning, and has poured IN torrents over
since. Not since 1878 have the Penii-
gewasset and Baker Rivers risen to such
G height. The Pemigewas9et has r;sen
seventeen deet. and is still rising at the
rate of twelve inches an hour.
The river S full OF floating debris and
timber. and the meadows are covered
with logs and flood wood. The intervale
land along the steam. railroad looks like
a great lake
One bridge just below here is in i'm
MEDIATE danger of being washed away.
The highways leading out OF Plymouth
along the river are impossible.
Squam Lake. in Holderness. has risen
several feet. and Sauam River. which
runs through Ashland. is over its banks.
The wires are not working north of here.
but the Connecticut and Ararnoonoosuc
Rivers must have risen several feet.
The prospects now are that Northern
New Hampshire will experience the lar
gest food on record.
The Pemigewasset Valley Railroad is
roadbed IS IN danger of being washed
OFT. If several bridges are not carried
away il will be q miracle.
One bridge on the Penigewasset Val
ley road is two feet under water. and
any time. The road1bed is gone in many
places for more than a quarter OF d
mia
SC 1oI, Of a q
damage being done on the line of the
Concord and Montreal road. Last nights
trains were cancelled.
SITUATION AT CONCORD.
CONCORD. N. H. April Is. 1S95.-The
than six inches an hour and the food
IS already within foot of the unprece-
dented high-water mark of 1869. and as
IL will continue to rise several hours
longer. even II there IS no more rain;
the record of freshets in this valley will
be Broken The intervales for miles
are covered with water and buildings on
the low lands are flooded. Much fear
continues to be felt for the safety fa % Of
where the water IS now Diunsing over
the dam more than ten feet in height
and within foot of the top OF the gate
house. The tracks on the twin bridges
at PNlacoo1 on the Boston and Maine
railroad are under water and a train
of loaded coal cars he's he been sent to
wash-out on the Concord and Montreal
Road at CaEserbury. but Italss Will be,
speedily repaired and the line operated
through tram today on that road and
no train OF any KIND until evening over
the main line of The Concord Division
of the Boston and Maine and Concord
and Clarenlont Roads. Boston mails for
points north which cannot be forwarded
on account Of the floods are being held
1'ne rainfall for the past week aggre-
eated over four. inches. the heaviest in
the same MfFs the for s4IYT TTTntYsjy poWN yeaFs-
NAsHgA. n; Il. April Is. 1ss5:-The
ana Nash1a Rdn Rivers ;togehsr Mth S4
Saturday night and Sunday rainfall was
the heaviest for. number OF years, aver aver
River commenced to rise at an early
hour and this morning the water was
twelve feet above low water mark ana
was rising at the rate of six inches per
hour.
The Jackson Company's mills are shut
down on account OF back water. whleh
the basement and weaving oom OF no.
9 mill. The help Were busy this morning
cautionary measure. The Merrinlack has
overfiowed its banks at the junction Of
the Nashua At present there is no dan an
ger to bridges. but trouble is anticipated
now threatens to equal the high record
of December, 1875 when backwater In the tn
son Company's dam and hcoded the low
er rooms of its mills.
RoGETdR doRd n yaars M Ap ppreyaiIs Il, isss aong
the line of the Boston & Maine Railroad
n this vicinity. AT Milton, the track is
covered with water for e distance Of one
mile At Union the tracks are completely
submerged and trains are compelled to
transfer passengers ana baggage. No
OF West Ossippes. The water covers the
track for distance, of 400 fest Trains
are, obliged to transfer at conway. ,z;a,, s
DWELLINGS, near the banks are in danger
saw mills report much loss of lumher
SALMON FALLS a. H., APril rs Ii !, 1882, 1872,
is the highest known for years. the
Salmon Fails manufacturing Company
has a large crew of men buildrn@ g wall
caution against a washouIt. which. if It,
should occur at this point would mean
the loss of the dam ,oo- NJ
heavy storm Of the past tw9, days has
swollen the streams to overflowing and
many streets in this city are Hooded.
Dozens of houses are accessible only @ nS t,,5
boats No trains have been run through
on the Asihuleot Division of the Boston
and Maine Railroad. owing to serious
WE151ISSTTSoL WBRISToL. II. r.. April Is. 1885. "A
freshet of destructive proportions Is pre-
VSiling in this SecIOn- RAN mas lelilSu
incessantly since Friday night and the
streams are overfloWing their banks. Gov
ering fields and filling highways. The
droutil of eight months duration which
prevailed previous to this storm has
alone served as a check to the freshet.
AS it is, much DAMAGE Is done. The
Merrinack River at this point is the
feet in thirty-si.S hours and is steadily
rising. Miles of railroad tracks are
many feet under water, sleepers washed
away and the ties piled in heaps. No
train can run on the Northern Division
OF the Boston and Maine Railroad.
FELL RELIoWss FALLS, VT. April IS, 1895.
The Connect ticut River thds morning was
somewhat higher than during the flood
OF 1859 and lacked two feet Of the record
of 1852 It is stili rising about three
inches an hour, and light rain is fall
Trains in an directions are tied up.
The $50 train to Boston over the Fitch
burg road went through, but no others
arrived or departed this forenoon in any
direction.
At nine o'clock this morning ..he water
Maine tunnel unGer the. main business
portion of the village and the rails were
at once taken up and a cemented coffer
damn is being put in This hloclSades the
main line to Springfield, Mass. indefinite
ITO trains have run between here and
Rutland or White River Junction. The
train from Rutland, due at S:20 A. NJ,
got only as far as Chester, where 1t is
tied up-
There are several washouts between
here and Chester and nothing can be
water recedes. Webb Brock Bridge, half
q rotIo 7a-,rfh af hpTp4 tf eret he Wi n si<s-