The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-17
CITY IS WITHOUT LIGHTS
HAVERHILL LIKELY TO BE IN DARKNESS MANY MORE NIGHTS.

Easements of Several Buildings Are Flood | ed With Water-The Flood at Brattle-
 boro is Subsiding and the Waters Have Fallen Nearly Three Feet-NO Trains Are Running as Yet.
 Haverhill, Mass, April 16.-The city
 Is without electric lights tonight. All ! efforts made to keep the water out of
 the wheel pit at the plant proved use less and the power will not probably run again for several days. The power
 at Sanders engine house was stopped l by the overflow of water late this after ! noon. This will cause the stoppage of the machinery in nearly @ dozen large | factories, throwing 2,500 more hands temporarily out of work. Only four en-
 zines are now in running order in the city and the damage already done amounts to many thousand dollars. J. H. Winchell & Co. estimate their loss at $10.0Oo The basements of buildings
 on Little river, into which water from the Merrimac flows, are under water,
 and the power at Stevens woolen mills
 on this stream is stopped by the flood. It is thought that the freshet reached it's highest point at o'clock tonight, and 1t will begin to subside before morn Ing.
 Northampton, Mass, April 16.-The
 Connection. river is still rising at D.
 m. at the rate of about an inch in three
 hours. It has tapered from three inches
 an hour Monday and is believed to be
 about at its highest point.
 The water lis leaking through the dilse
 which surrounds the populous section of
 Ward and watchers are in waiting to
 notify the inhabitants in case of
 break Many families have taken up
 carpets and moved to the second floors, and pigs and cows occupy several kitch- ems
 The leak in the Central Massachusetts embankment on Hadley Meadows has been stopped.
 Concord, N H., April 16.-The water In the Merrimac river has lowered eight Inches since midnight and Is slowly re- ceding. Trains for Boston were sent at 7:S5 this morning via Hancock Juno ton, and passengers who left Boston on the 3 and o'clock trains yesterday afternoon reached here at $40 a. ln,, having been deta'ned at Hillsboro bridge over night. As soon as possible repairs will be begun on the Northern and Con- cord and Montreal roads.
 The lower bridges over the Merrinlac river did not go out last night as sup posed. the loud crash heard being made by the Quimby house going down stream. The highest point recorded at the Concord and Montreal shops showed the water to be eighteen inches higher than in the great floods of October, 1869
 Brattleboro, Vt, April 16.-The flood in the Connecticut river Is subsid1ug, The waters of the Connecticut have fallen nearly three feet since last night | at midnight, when they attained their | greatest depth here. The meadows and | valleys are still covered to great | depth between here and Bellows Falls, | and it will be several days before the | extent of the damage can be estimat- | ed. The farmers, whose homes were | by the flood, have suffered | most in the washing away of founda- tions, fences, farming tools and, in some | cases, their live stock. Several houses an Putney and Westminster Meadows were up to the second stories In water, while barns and outbuildings were flooded
 Plymouth, N. H., April 16.-No trains from the south have arrived since Sat urday at midnight until tonight, but but communication with northern New England is open A large force of men nas been working on the railroad be- .ween here and Nashua all day and got ] train through tonight. No attempt 1as been made to repair the Pemi3e- Hasset branch as yet, and 1t will be lays before communication will be open I with North Woodstock. The damage O railroads and highways by the high waters throughout Pemigewasset and Bakers river valleys Is large, and the from lack of mail and elegraphic service great. The tele- sraph wires south were out of use for hirty-six hours preceding this morning, md Plymouth has had no Boston mail lnce midnight Saturday.