The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-04-16
THE STORM.
What the Railroad Managers Here
Say of of Its Ravages.

1t Creates Washouts on the Maine Central
Grand Trunk and Boston g. Maine-It
Causes the Presumpscot to Overflow
1t Plays Mischief with Carriage Roads
The rainfall from Sunday morning al
T 5 o'clock to Monday morning at s, was
one of the heaviest recorded here to1
, ears. The fall from a. m. Sunday tc
| p. m. was 1.30 inches, and from p. m.
Sunday to a. m. Monday was so inch
es. In all during the twenty-four hours
the fall was $50 inches. A fall of two
inches is considered very large, two and
fifty -hundredths excessive. ard to and
eighty-hundredths extraordinary.
"The Presumpscot river was never
higher than at this time.n said Deering
man yesterday. SUNDAY it reached
more than high water mark. 1t backed up
and overfowd ali the land for a quarter
of mile from the river back to Edward
Cobb's buildings. The little steamer
Mr.. Goodrich will have ON the river was
above the bridge where they were fitting
her up. She broke loose, and was carried
in among the trees. 1t hes been years
since there was the same state of affairs
along the rivsr. If the A ndroscoggin lad
come up in proportion it would have
swept:everything before it,"
No damage. was reported yesterday on
the main branch of the Maine Central,
or the Portland & Rochester, and the
trains came in on time as usual. \
On the Mountain Division of the
Maine Central there was a number of
washouts, and Superintendent Hamilton
was kept pretty busy. At noon yester-
day, the track was repaired from Lunen-
burg, VT. to North Conway, and at 8. s
p. M, the various trains began TO arrive
in Portland, none being able to get in
before that time. The first washout
north of Portland was a small one at
Brownfield, go feet long and 20 feet deep.
The third at East Branch, near Glen
station, was 100 feet long and feet deep.
There was large one near the Twin
Mountain House, another at Quebec
Junction, BESIDES several little ones.
Working trains were sent out from Lun-
enburg towards Bartlett, one each from
Bartlett, and one from Portland. On
the Boston & Maine, Western Division,
near Wells, large washout was met
with, and the Western Division trains
had to come over the Eastern Division
tracks from Berwick. Notwithstanding
the washouts, the Western division
trains were delayed only from 10 to 20
minutes. ifa
Carriage roads in the vicinity of the
city in several places are, overflowed, and
one man coming into town. yesterday
morning was forced to drive his horse
through about two feet of water On
the Scarboro fats there is great alum
dance of water, the streams being IL II to
Overlooking. The water is level with tho
railroad tracks in some places.
A man who drove in from Blackstrap
yesterday had herd time. Soon after
leaving that vicinity his horse's forelegs
suddenly slunlped in and nearly pitched
the driver out. He found the road sod
den with water, and after extricating
his horse and pushing in, he came to a
stream into which his horse went up to
the belly. The. current took the wagon
and swung it almost round, and as it
went scraping of the team was felt
The man managed at great risk. to get
the carriage on firm ground and then
found that the scraping was caused by
the wagons being carried over stone
wall.
The stream from Duck Pond rose SO
high that Kendall & Whitney's pail
mill had to be shut down.
The Presumpscot rose to within few
feet of Pride's bridge. and flowed deep
over the small bridge near BY the road to
Westbrook. The Cobb lane bridge, over
the Presumpscot, had to be closed to
travel yesterday.
The storm caused bad cavern in the
big plank sewer that runs under Deer
ing's bridge. i$
There was bad washout at the foot of
Mellen street.
There was heavy snow furry abont
midnight.