The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-02

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down the street by the power station. IA
coal day and haul it across the iron
bridge. Now that this is swept away,
they will have to haul the coal up
around the bridge at Saoarappa, making
distance of one mile each way. This
is of course provided that the Bridge
street bridge remains and that is by no
means certain, because last evening it
was reported that the stone abutment at
the north side was weakening.
When the railroad bridge gave way and
allowed the accumulation of ice to
sweep down stream gthis caused percep-
tible lowering Of the water above that
point. the ice held back by the bridge
had damned the water.
Prev. Gus to that, the water had extend
ed across to Main treet. surrounding the
intervening houses and had flooded the
street, flowing over the concrete side
walk and causing a pool of several
hundred feet in extent, through which
the electrics had to pass. When tho
bridge went down, tho river subsidized so
much that the water left Main street. : Is
The Ogdensburg bridge that was
washed away was go dangerously twisted,
all day yesterday that no train was run
over it after p. m. Friday.
THE STORM IN DEERING.
Stevenss Salt Mill at the Stroudwater
Threatened.
In Deering there was no particular ca
lamity other than the flooding of cellars.
Street Commissioner Staples and his
men were busy all day responding to the
calls of oitizens who were being flooded.
Around many of the houses the water
COLLECTED in the hollows of the frozen
ground that held it as securely MS if
they had been huge fat dishes lined with
ice. These sheets of water were almost
small ponds in many localities. AT Deer
ing's bridge that portion of made land
between the Rochester Extension and
Oaks, where the old salt creek was fill d
up was flooded so entirely from shore to
shore that it seemed as If the old days
had returned, and the salt water had
flooded the old creekwith one of it's high
est tides.
AT Howard Winslow's house, just be-
yond behring's Point, where the brook
runs under forest avenue, the culvert
was not large enough to carry off the ac-
cumulating water and large pond
formed between Forest avenue and the
Rochester railroad, SO deep that the fence
was submerged, and it reached to the
lower branches Of some apple trees that
stood in the field.
The little ponpin Smiths woods on the
edge of Forest avenue, just opposite
Marsh Brothers Goa. yasd. was SO food
ed that it poured stream across the
large enough to dispose of tho water.
| Near William street, in Oakdale, the
| stream that flows under the Rochester
track and Forest avenue, aud goes down
into Back Cove by he ball grounds was
SO flooded that it flowed over the track
and washed the ballast away from the
sleepers at the imminent risk of chang
| ing the level of the track. A house near
by was entirely surrounded by water.
The pond back of the tide mill at
Stroudwater rose rapidly under the influ-
enoe Of the torrents of rain, and melted
snow which found their way into it and
at one time the water stood foot in
1 he r1o yiv~ ioI-
lish business running the eleotrics across.
The opening of the gates in the mill,
however, reduced the level of the water
and prevented serious trouble. The ole
mill just above the stone day ON the
Stroudwatcr riyer.was in danger and 9
part of the underpinning was swept away
but at late hour last evening the old
mill was still there. An incident of the
Stroudwater experience was the appear
ance of musk rat ON the railroad track,
the little animal having evidently been
drowned out Of his home.
ON THE RAILROADS.
The Worst Washouts Ever Known in Thi
State.
OF course the carrying away of tn,
bridge at Westbrook would of itself hay,
stopped travel on the Mountain division
of the Maine Central, but sven had tn,
bridge been all right, trouble further uT
the line would have caused the cancel
ling of trains. Division Superintendent
J Hamilton said last evening that he hat
not received any news since three in tn
afternoon, but had then learned tina
) there were a number of washouts on the
} line and several small landslides III
} among the mountains. The trouble witt
the telegraph also stopped oommunica
tion along the main line of the Main
Central, and trains there were also can
celled. The Pullman from Boston was
an hour and twenty minutes late ant
stopped here. not going out over tn
Maine Central.
| Tho storu, along the line of the Gran,