The Portland daily press., 1895-04-18

run Tor ShOre.' But eacn lime tney returned
and the bridge is there all right. Once
great piece of trestle work said 10 have
coue from the new Wild River road, lodged
| against pier in such manner that it was
feared a jam of logs would form against the
bridge before the obstuctions could be got
ten clear. The Knights of the Pick Pole
stuck to their posts and family overcome
this danger too. The bridge up by the dam
was not subjected to this peril. as it males
one long span without piers.
All these things happened right in the
village of Rumford Falls, and there was
naturally good deal of excitement (which
was Increased later in the day by a telegram
from Berlin Falls saying that $4,000 logs
had broken loose there. 1t sbocld have
read 's500,O0 feet" Many people sat up
until after midnight waiting to see the half
million logs go down stream. Happily they
were disappointed. some people became
anxious and wanted to take their horses to
the high ground. but landlord Nithee of
the hotel. said he should do nothing of the
sort with the horses in his stable, adding,
II don't propose to move on account of a
shower"
As the water rose Sunday night, dwellers
in number of small houses on the Mexico
shore, were obliged to move out. They pro-
cured heavy ropes and ooG the preeaution
to anchor their homes by tying them to
large trees. The water entered the first
floor of these houses, but the moorings held
and they were not carried away.
at Rumford Centre, the food drove
several families from their homes. Wm
Farnham. Charles Abbott and George Bus
nor were obliged to seek quarters elsewhere
with their families. Mr.. Farnham had ten
cords of fire wood neatly stacked in the
yard by the kitchen door. That went when
| the water swept out everything movable in
the yard. The nails are generally carried
from Rumford Centre 10 Rumford Falls by
team, but yesterday. Mail Carrier George II.
Tuttle brought them through by boat.
Sometimes he drifted along where the road
should have been and at others he was out
in the river. Mr.. Tuttle modestly said, how
ever, that there was no danger or trouble
| about it. Sill he is glad that the road is
open again.
A WOMAN SERIOUSLY ILL
was taken in a boat from house in East
Rumford. As the water invaded her dwell
ing, Mr.. Wilson Thomas lifted his invalid
wife from her bed and laid her on the top
of a brick furnace, above the level of the
water. Kindly neighbors were soon at hand
with boat, and into this Mrs. Thomassswas
lifted and borne TO place of safety. Mr.
Thomas IS twelve head of cattle were by this
time standing in water in the barn. A
soow used as a ferry was navigated into
the building, the cattle loaded on board and
| ferried over to dry land.
1t was also at East Rumford that Farmer
A. j. Knight. who runs mill farm, had
an experience something akin to that of
the King ot France, who with
''forty thousand men
Marched up hill and then
Marched down again."
Fearing that his forty head of cattle
would be drowned, Mr.. Knight drove tham
out of the barn. which had become an
island. and made them swim to hill short
distance away. Then the forty head of
cattle promptly turned round and swan
back again. The water Deg ginning to receGe,
they were not made to leave he barn a
second time, and they too are all right.
Virgil Abbott and G. Hemmingway We're
also obliged to remove their stock to places
of sa1ety.
The logs which we last saw rushing under
the Mexico toll bridge kept oD down stream.
At Dixtield. they hurled themselves against
the heavy granite piers erected 10 support
the bridge to be built this summer. The
piers were not hazined. although great
masses of logs would pile up against them
until they We're covered. At Canton, the
runaways were joined by logs which broke
from the booms of o. A. McFadden of
Portland. The wooden toll bridge conld not
stand the shock and went down with q
crash. Its site is now marked by The logs
piled against the piers. 1t is reported that
about 100000 feet of Mr.. Nc Tadden's lum-
ber went out. People who have had to cross
this bridge do not regard its loss as an un-
mftigated evil. 1t was old and last winter
a team load of logs with the horses and
driver went through it. The horses were
drowned. At Dixfield there is small dam
across the mouth of Webbs river. whi,h is
the outlet of Weld pond. This dam was
somewhat injured. but was not carried out.
The henyy rains in this section, as else
where, bothered the railroads, and it was
not until this afternoon that trains crossed
the place of the washout at East Peru. The
train service was not interrupted. passen-
gers being transferred. This morning they
walked over the break where section men
were putting in temporary trestle. Yester-
day, the few travellers were driven around
in state in hayrack. The washout occurred
on an embankment, great deal of water
collecting in the low land and undermining
the track. 1t was not serious in itself, but
could not be mended until the water went
down.
Now that the waters nave subsided.
people are
COUNTING THE COST.
-Four million feet of lumber owned by the
paper company has gone down stream
Four million feet would represent $40. 000
but the logs are not all lost by any means
Many are scattered along the Tshore of the
river and the woods which line the banks
are full of them. After their struggle with
the water. they lie in heaps like the slain
on the field of battle. For miles and mi,es
they can be seen. scattered over the inter
vals.and pilediin heaps along the,hase of the
high banks. One big fellow was seen
perched in the branches of tree. Manv
more will probably turn up farther down
stream in the booms and news from the
lower mart of the river is that very few have