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SANFORD EXCITED.
The Usually Quiet Mousam Becomes a
Raging Torrent.
ESPECIAL TO THE PREss.l


San ford, March Newer in the his
tory of this town has there bee n such
flood as has been tearing and roaring
down the course of the Mousam today.
Early this morning the river was rising
SO rapidly that crew of men were at
once put to work securing the large
boom of logs above the Washington
street bridge and strengthening the va
rious bridges. Other crews were at once
started, clearing the lower floors of the
Sanford Mills lest the contents should
be swept away. The work of protection
rent seemed to grow as
IF BY MAGIC,
and this usually passive and peaceful
Mousam became q raging flood whose
roaring could be heard for miles around.
Intense excitement prevailed and not
little fear and the whole town was soon
at the banks of the river which was ris-
ing several feet an hour, and at II a.
M,
REACHED ITS FULL HEIGHT.
near the blacksmith shop was lifted up
by the torrent, broken into thousand
pieces with noise like the explosion
of cannon and hurled down the stream.
1t was soon seen that the covered
bridge connecting the various factories
were in danger and
HOLES WE'RE CUT
in them to lot the rushing waters
through in the hope Of saving them.
The big Washington street bridge was
soon found to be in danger and was
roped off to prevent passage. Attempts
were made to strengthen it, but the
lower end is dangerously undermined
to a depth of eight feet and it is thought
the bridge will have to go before Monday.
| The
LOSS TO THE TOWN
and factories must be very large. Mes
sengers who are constantly arriving, re-
port every bridge below Sanford on the
Mousam carried away. Among those
which are gone are Buffers, Powers's,
Wizards Dam, Whitoher's and Good
wins. Long Pond is rising at the rate
of half foot an hour.
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LOSS TO THE TOWN
PRETTY ROYAL RIVER
Becomes Raging Torrent and Makes
Things Lively at Yarmouth.
ESPECIAL TO THE PRESS.I

Yarmouth, March /. Pretty Little
Royal river has made itself distinguished
today, if it never did before, by neoom-
ing for the time, a roaring, leaping
Stream. IL seemed to rise today all of a
sudden and grave fears are entertained
for the safety Of the larger bridges
and the mills. A small bridge at Var
mouth Falls was swept away this morn
ing. The water has flooded the stock
rooms of Shaw's cotton mill at the
falls and has done a great deal of dam
age. If the rain continues the damage
is going to be very heavy
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u6 INdllTOduS highway anu
Bridges They Crushed In the Walls of
Mill '95. 49,
At g. 45 the Maine Central bridge
against which the mass of acres of great
block, of ice had been piled all day, gave
way in, the middle with a great crash
and went down the river together with
thousands of tons Of ice. 1t was the
middle piece that gave way. The rails
held the sleepers and these were left sus-
pended in the air.
The huge mass went down with the
flood and came against the iron highway
way bridge at Cumberland Mills like a
tremendous battering ram. Down went
the bridge before it, and the whole mass
was swept onward towards the new
mill of the great paper mills, called the
"'95 mill, that extends across the river,
with the archways underneath for water
to pass under. just i'll front of this mill,
is the dou BILE deck tramway bridge of
iron that all day had withstood the flood
that submerged the lower deck and the
ccaseless battering of the poplar logs.
Waen the huge mass of. debris of tire
two bridges, together with the vast guam
tity Of ice came sweeping down upon
this tramway bridge, that also gave
way and the whole mass was swept down
against the walls of mill '95,' only 90
feet away. AT about O'Clock in the
evening, PRESS reporter went out
on the tramway bridge as far as it was
possible to go. The whole place was of
course very dark because of tho absence
of the electric lights.
AT the end of the tramway bridge,
where it was broken off and bent down
into the water ana between the hri lge
and the mill, was piled up huge mass
Of debris lis big and as high as two
story honse. Bridge Orders were visible
sticking UP in the air above the roof
of the mill and these were mingled with
enormous quantities of ice and hundreds
upon hundreds of cords of poplar
wood. All this great bulk was heaped
against the wall of the new mill, the
roof of which would be distinctly seer
sloping downward in the middle
ana indicating thaG pofJlon OF the
wall had been broken in. 1t was posi-
BILE to see what seemed to be great
black hole in the wall of the mill. Theirs
is no doubt that this new mill in which
luckily there is no machinery is pretty
! badly demolished.
just behind this mill and extending
across the river parellel to it and about
ton feet from it. is "mill 1872 Thil
mill contains very valuable paper ma
chimes. During the day the water wa,
SO high that it was pouring through thu
lower floor of this mill ana over these
machines with a seeming savage delight
at it's invasion of these sacred precincts
and it's destruction of their precious
contents.
What damage was done to mill '93, fte
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A MILLIONS LOSS THREATENED.
Grave Fears of an Ice Freshet at Livermore
Falls.

Livermore Falls, March lit has rained
necessarily here for thirty-six hours and
there is no sign of abatement. The Andres
coggin river is rising very rapidly. The worst
ice freshet for years is anticipated. The ice
at Livermore Falls is already gone and
million dollars worth of mill property is
threatened. Several are being cleared of
their contents. The roads along the river
are flooded and impossible.
There is little sign of abatement. The river
is still rapidly rising and big rush of water
probably caused by the ice jam giving way,
has carried out the county bridge and
washed one end of Records pulp mill at
Livermore Falls away. About midnight
Superintendent d. J. Began of the Umbagog
Pulp company miraculously escaped being
swept away with the bridge. He had barely
left it when the jam of ice and other debris
struck it,
At Lisbon Falls.
Lisbon Falls, Me-, March I've have had
heavy rain since Saturday morning. The
Androscoggin river has risen four feet and
three inches, and will rise four feet more be-
fore morning if the rain continues. The ice
broke up in the Androscoggin river be-
tween Rumford Falls and Dixfield this morn
ing. The Androscoggin Water Power COM
panys logs in this ice stood no chance of be-
ing held here, If the ice goes out, which it
probably will, by morning. Railroad tracks
| are washed out here and working trains are
at work. 18e&.
Newport Suffers.
| Newport, March THE most disastrous
| freshet since 1873, visited this vicinity today
doing vast injury to the water privilege
along the banks of the Sugar river and to
| the Concord & Claremont branch of the
Boston s. Maine railroad. Early this morn
ing, ice in the river began to break up,
taking away two dams of the Granite Wooden
company and two bridges between that
place and this village. Great fears are en-
tertained that large dam at Richards &
Sons mill would break away. At one time
over four feet of water was passing over a
part of Edes' dam and the underpinning of
the saw mill was carried away. Carr's
stable and other places suffered by the great
lam of ice, raising the river from ten to
fifteen feet. One cake of ice broke its way
through the side of a shoe shop and further
damage was done to this establishment
1t was feared the railroad bridge between
Cross and River streets would go and take
everything before.t, even the Main street
river bridge and water main which crosses
it. The basement of Newton's undertaking
establishment and the Gamosh saloon were
flooded, there being two and one-half feet of
water on the floor of the latter. Both were
greatly damaged.
At Chambers, much damage was done, es-
pecially to the Wright bridge. About 8 p. M
a construction train arrived from Concord
and men are busy making repairs in order
that trains can be run Monday. The loss can
not be estimated.
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the centre. From a photograph taken
and made part of the wreckage, itself
the most complete wreck of all. A boat
inside, bit of work on which MIR. Gill
man had prided himself. was made
mass of the wreckage, simply fat boards
and the like. -ss5,.
The wood yard Of Henry Black. by the
water side. was included in the general
wreck, and cord after cord of his stock
in trade passed out into the channel.
The temporary bridge over the river on
the Mountain Division of the Maine
Central, was a rather uncertain structure.
A new bridge, is. being built at that
point and the temporary bridge felt the
strain of the great mass OF wreokago and
ice. The bridge at that time was
FAIRLY BLACK WITH PEOPLE
and bent with the strain downward and
out of line in the center more than
three feet and at the same time settled,
aud sh owed signs of giving way. There
was of course a panic, but after the ex-
element was over the people who had
Eeen frightened off began to return
again to what was in reality the bes t
point of observation on the river.
Just below the bridge was an immense
pile Of wood belonging to the S. ID.
Warren Company, and it went out at the
rate of 30 cords an hour, sending it down
to collect against points below.
Of course the greatest point of inter-
est. WAS at Cum berland Mills, and the
great corporation Of the
S. D. WARREN COMPANY,
whose plant was more than Threatened.
Hon. John E. Warren said that unless
the railroad bridge gave way there would
be no great damages. 49, -
In advance of the giving way of the
bridge, two of the great pieces of the new
mill, built on arches, went out. A
portion of the dam by the gate house
was carried away and there was little
apparent difference between the wild
water above and the wild water below
the dam. The foot bridge was out of
sight, and the river was flowing through
the mil yard, and the machine and car
pointer shops were overlooked.
water rapidly rising, and more of them
as the day advanced
a.FOUND SAFETY IN FLIGHT
and the sight of job wagon loaded with
household effects was to be seen in all
directions. %7e
The people who risked their lives on
the shaking railroad bridge were rivaled
by sothers who yentured out on the
quivering mass of ice and wreokage in
ordor to pick up few, of the boots and
shoes Of the wrecked shoe store. That
foot hardy performance was repeated
several times E. with but little material
gain to the reckless individuals con-
carned. sss.s
But at the Dana mills two of the mem
hers of the Valentine hose company,
William Hamilton and Ralph Norton,
distinguished themselves in better way.
They went out on the ice and succeed
Ell III getting food to Mr.. Dana but
could not provision the men in the cleo
trio, light station. Five minutes later,
and
THE GREAT MASS OF ICE
above the mills and the dam began tc
give way, and except what piled upon
thu banks the five miles of cake ice,
much of it very thick, came down. The
Dana mills and the electric light build
boat builder in the winter, was Eline
with the slowly moving descending
mass. and was crushed like an egg shell,
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HOODS PILLS cure Liver LIS,
Bilioasnesss Indigestion, Headache.
A pleasant laxative. AL Druggists
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Along the Amanoosac.

Woodsville, N H., March IA con.
tinuous rain lasting So hours has caused
the streams to become fearfuliy high,
and business will be interrupted several
days. The White Mountain division OF
the Boston q Maine railroad is crippled
in several places. Washouts are reported
at Meridt and Rumney, and bridges
are weakened at Wentworth, Littleton
and East Haverhill. The water is over
the track at West Rumney, Bath and
Bethlehem Junction. No trains came
over this division today. Large gangs
of men are at work making the road
passabIe for Monday. The Bath Ium-
Der Company at Bath, lost its new brldg-
es The AmmohooSuc river IS raging at
this point, being completely filled with
logs. ice, and other debris. 1t is estimat-
ed that one million feet Of logs have gone
Gown the river today. The ice in the
Connecticut is not broken up above here,
and the river is rising. All wires are
down north of Littleton, and there is
no communication with the northern
section of the state today. The rain is
still falling and the rivers are rising.
Unless cold wave reaches here soon
tho water will reach the higest point
every known.
AT Bangor.
Bangor, March lit has rained hard
here all day today and as consequence
the Penobscot river and Kenduskeag
stream, have risen rapidly and water and
ice flowed over the wharves. The eight
o'clock Pullman tain to Boston was
not sent out tonight as washouts are
feared along the line.
At Woodstock. kSN
Woodstock, March lover three inches of
rain has fallen in the last So hours and the
river is swollen by borken ice and is higher
in some places, than it has been for 80 years.
A large covered bridge, seven miles above
here, has been carried away, and much
damage is done to the hi ghway
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AT LEWISTON.
Ice in River Still sticks-Damsge by Floods
and Freshets.

Lewiston, March 1.-The Androscoggin river
is rising rapidly. Three and one-half inches
of rain has fallen since $40 a. m. Saturday
There is two and one-half feet of ice in the
river which has not yet gone out, but is like
ly to. Great damage to the bridge is likely
if it goes out tonight. The rain has taken
one foot of snow off the county.
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WIRES DISABLED.

Very Little Telegraphic News Received
Last Night.
The telegraph wires in all directions
were in badly crippled state last night
owing to the storm, and as a conse-
quenoe, hardly any telegraphic news dis
patches were received by the PRESS.
The heavy rains washed out the poles in
many places, breaking the, wires.
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BE sure and vote the full Republican
ticket in Ward Six today.
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PLEAsANTDaLE. AND GAS Il CORNER.

PLEASANTDALE AND GAS H CORNER.
Two Feet of Water in Dyer's Store and
$500 Damage-The Swamp at Rigby
Oyerfows and Sends River Down to
Cash's Corner-Electric Cars Stop at
PIeasantdaIe.
, Evans brook at Pleasantdale that
crosses Brown street at the same place
where tho Boston and Maine crosses it has
risen and flooded the surrounding coun-
try as never before known in the memory
of the Oldest inhabitant. The culvert
under the railroad track has heretofore
carried off whatever amount of water
there has been in the brook, but this
time, although the oulveru is not stopped
up in the least, it is not large enough to
carry off the water. The road Is flooded
for distance of aobut 500 feet, and to
the depth of an average of IS inches. 1t
is fully two feet In front of W. E. Dyer's
store The floor of this store il almost on
ia level with the ground and the water
entered the doors and flooded the floor to
q depth Of nearly two feet. Mr.. Dyer had
! to move nearly all his goods TO e. w.
Fullerton's stable and has sustained d
loss of about $500.
A crew of men yesterday endeavored to
break away the dam, which is just below
the road and which was built to give
the Boston and Maine machine shop a
supply of water. If this day could have
been destroyed the flood would have
been lowered good deal. But the dam
resisted all their efforts, it being frozen
solid. The water backed up above the
oulvort and made apond that covered five
acres at least. ]. H. Taylor's house an6
the Richardson place were entirely sur
/ rounded with water.
brook to accommodate these people This
bridge was under water, railing and ali
! This Evans brook takes it's rise in thu
swamp at Rigby Park and flows natural
~ down through Pleasantda1e int
Clark's ice pond. The whole channel O
| Uup plOOh 10 81 AUOuoo uilbU5 Uu6 W6U6
has overlooked the limits at the swan,
near Rigby and has started off in anoth
er direction, taking the electric car traol
at Rigby Park and flowing downthrougl
Cash's Corner into the pond at Calyar.
cemetary. A number of cellars in TIN
vicinity of Cashs' Corner are flooded an6
Pixies place and the house of Plummer,
the harness maker, are entirely surround
ed by water.
Lii ncoln street is so flooded and ha
been since Saturday noon that the cleo
trio cars have been unable to reach CASH
Corner. They stop at Pleasantdale.
/ Rigby Park is entirely flooded. TIL,
central portion is q small lake, the waite
coming nearly up to the level of tn
track.
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and New Gloucester, and still another be-
tween New Gloucester and Falmouth.
Most of these washouts are small, detain-
ing, rather than important.
The storm among the mountains and
along the line of the Grand Trunk, was
almost terrific. All the streams are run
ming our banks, and great damage has
been done. Many land slides are report
ed.
Stony river has been at its widest and
at it's worst. From South Paris comes
the news of the sweeping away of two
mills an three bridges on that river.
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THE GREAT MASS OF ICE


above the mills and the dam began to
give way, and except what piled upon
thu banks the five miles of cake ice,
much of it very thick, came down. The
Dana mills and the electric light build
boat builder in the winter, was nlline
with the slowly moving descending
mass, and was crushed like an egg shell,
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THREE BRIDGES GONE.

The Railroad, Highway and Tramway
Bridges They Crushed In the Walls of
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We commend the policy Of the Republican
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Respectfully submitted.
I. f. FELL, Sol. HlRscH,
Secretary. Chairman.
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