The Portland daily press., 1895-04-19
THEFLooo IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Further Particulars of the Damage at Cor
ham and Berlin Mil1s-Lancaster4 Suf-
fered Severely-The Case of Lavasseur.
correspondence OF the Pressl,
Gorham. N. IL. Anril Il is,

Correspondence OF the Pressl,
Gorham, N. H., April II, 1895.
We have at last beautiful day after
the terrible storms, and with the sun
shine and receding waters comes relief
from fear. No such storm was ever
known, our Oldest inhabitants recalling
nothing like it, though in this valley
of The Peabody river more damage was
done in the great freshet of 1869, when
Mr.. Thompson, of the Glen House, lost
life, than has now been done here.
is was court week at Lancaster, but
re Is no court, and will not be until
next Tuesday. Judge Carpenter, being
unable to reach there from Concord,
telegraphed yesterday morning an ad-
journment until Tuesday, the 23d, when
it is hoped the roads will be again passa-
BILE and that the business may then go
on. This adjournment was not known
however, until large number of at
torneys and jurors had left their homes,
twenty-eight of whom gathered at Grove
ton yesterday morning, and with rail
road servi ce entirely cut off from Lam
caster, started with teams over the hilly
roads, and through what is known as
"The Lost NaJion," for the County
Seat, and not one of that number will
ever forget the journey or wonder that
this section of our county received that
name. One of our Shelbourne jurymen
insisted that he lost his rubbers in %
feet of snow, and that he walked eight
OF the ten miles of the way, and Ex
Sheriff Shedd, who drove one of the
double teams, insists that it was only by
his expert horsemanship that he saved
his own neck from being broken, being
obliged to keep his seat on the box while
the rest, more fortunate, took to the
field in safety.
AT Lancaster the damage has been very
serious. The new iron bridge, across
1sraels river, connecting the village on
either side, was entirely swept away, the
water mains, extending across the river
broken, and other damages done to town
property to the extent, as estimated by
some OF the town people, of $40, 900. No
mails had been received there from the
railway mail service up to last night,
since Sunday noon, the Concord & Mon
treal road being flooded for some dis
tance south and portion of the way
north to Groveton. This flooding comes
from the Connecticut river, swollen, of
course, by the waters from all it's tribu
taries, and all the meadows along it's
shores are flooded making, as viewed yes
terday Que great lake, up and down the
river as far as the eye could reach. The
water however began to recede yesterday
and in a short time with favorable
weather and the prompt action of the
authorities of towns and railroads travel
everywhere will be safely resumed and
the court criers can, it is hoped, open
court with the usual invocation of "God
Save the State"
The capture of Levasseur, the brute
who committed the assault upon the
little Dion girl, is most gratifying and
his speedy punishment is now most
earnestly desired, and Notwithstanding
the great desire of the people of Berlin,
as indicated by your correspondent from
that town, that it should be made known
beyond doubt that the brute lived in
Gorham, our people are as anxious as
swiftly and fully accomplished, to which
ED they will lend every aid, as promptly
and surely as though the little victim
had been one of our girls, and the brute
a Berlinite. We cannot see what object
there can be in this puerile effort to
charge our town with this crime because
for four months the brute made his
the other insinuations against US, be-
cause the Halfway House," SO called is
on Gorham soil, for though SO called
Hallway" that house is about one mile
from Berlin village and five miles from
Gorham village and is owned by Berlin
parties and in everything except being
just over the line in Gorham seems to
have been Berlin institution. We are
glad, however, to know that it is now
cleaned out through the efforts of the
Berlin authorities aided by our own
fficer, and by our united aid it will no
longer be a source of annoyance to
either of our fourishing towns. We are
proud of Berlin, and never fail TO point
to it's wonderful growth and great i'm
taken there to view the new city beneath
the shadows of our granite hills. Con-
siderable of our money is invested there
and it's every advanced movement is
hailed by US with delight. Nor do we
believe that the great body of all it's
people join in the petty spirit that from
time to time is evinced by few whose
heads run away with their hearts to
such an extent as to take every oppOr-
tunity to build themselves up to the dis
credit of their neigh boring towns. |
write this in justice to US here and with
no uukindly feeling for my friends separ-
ated only by a line simply drawn upon
the earth, and which is invisible to
the eye.
AS to our damage here by the storm it
is not SO much as we feared, and we are
most fortunate to escape SO lightly. We
had reason TO fear but except in the Sc
we're washing of our roads which can be
easily repaired we are safe. Our electric
light plant, though for a while in
great peril, escaped with very little in
jury and has not for moment been
loss in all its service, though it is report
ed as having been obliged to shut down
for a while This result, in nthe face of
all this trial is most gratifying as it
proves it's solidity and makes it all the
more valuable. There is no better light
anywhere than ours. A. S. Il.