Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-04-18
SURGINC WATERS.


bound train, and baggage, passengers
and mails were carried by. The noon
train from Brattleboro came i'm about
on time Monday, but was stopped at
the tunnel because of the dam across
the track. Passengers were discharged
there and baggage and express matter
Later in the afternoon the
train was started back for Brattleboro,
but was obliged to stop near Westmin-
ster because the tracks were covered so
deep with water that the fire in the en-
CINE would have been put out. The
train returned here and there was no
service toward the south until Tuesday
afternoon, when the water had receded
to allow the trains to pass.
There was small washout near Put
ney and trains run over it with eau
ton.
The Fitchburg road was the only one
which ran trains with any degree of
The trains ever tina. road
were about on time Monday and they
little trouble at any point.
The town was filled Monday with
men who came in on the
trains and could get no
further. All the rooms at the hotels
were full, and every available place in
the parlors and corridors was filled with
cot beds. Even then the crowds could
not be accommodated and a number
slept in chairs or didn't sleep at all.
They all took things pleasantly and
passed the day as best they could till
noon Tuesday when big delegation
headed by Father Ladd marched down
to the depot singing halleluloo songs
and departed on the first train.
The highest point reached by the
water, of which an accurate measure
ment was made, was shortly after noon
Monday when there was Is feet and 10
inches flowing over the dam. At noon
the water had fallen to IA feet
and inches, which is about the height
reached during the freshets of 1859 and
1888. Near the Fall Mountain office
where the water sets back the water
was at one time 26 feet above its natu-
raj height.
AS soon as the water got down low
for the men to work, wrecking
trains were at the scene Ofthe washouts
and got the tracks in condition to pass
over yesterday. The main track on the
Boston and Main road near the Fall
Mountain saw mill was found unsafe,
and all trains pass that place on the
side track.
During the highest of the water
stream poured through the west abut-
ment of the toll bridge and it was
thought for time that there was dan
ger of it's being Weakened; but so far as
is known the water flowed between the
heavy granite blocks without damag-
ing them.
At the Allbee farm Monday morning
there was several feet of water in the
barns. The stock was loosened and
towed to the shore by men in boats.
Correspondents of the Boston and
Springfield, Mass, papers have been
here this week writing up the flood and
yesterday the Boston Globe and Herald
had several illustrations of different
views as seen through Blake's camera.
The effect in the Herald was somewhat
spoiled by their explanatory notes say
ing the views were of the flood at Rut-
land, instead of Bellows Falls.
The sidewalk near the west end of the
Canal street bridge sunk several inches
owing to the crib settling. Planks
have been laid over the sunken part to
prevent disaster should the bank sud-
denly cave in.
Many cellars throughout the town
were flooded and sewers were overflow
ed in many places keeping Street Com
missioner Moore and gang of laborers
busy Sunday and Monday. The dam
age to highways in the village, how
ever, will be slight.
Referring to the high water, Moses
Miller remembers nearly every food
from the time of Noah to the present
day. He was about seven years old at
the time of the flood of 1928 when the
water was about the same height as
during the past week, but did not run
through the tunnel because there was
no tunnel here at that time. He also
well the flood of 1912, when
the water was about the same height
and 1862 when it was more than two
feet higher. The more recent floods are
within the memory of many present
residents of the village, but Mr.. Miller
is probably the only resident who can
give information about the one in the
20's. A notch cut in the side of
the building on the island now
used as stable by the express COM
pany, shows the highest point reached
in 1862 but as the building has been
raised nearly two feet since that time
the difference is not SO great as the
would think.