Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-04
ECHOES OF THE FLOOD.
Further Reports from Damage in
Various New England Points,
Showing the Wide Spread Ruin Occasioned
by The Swollen Waters.

Beale's saw mill, Knapp's carriage shop,
and all the bridges, but one, in town are
gone. Loss, $40, 900. Two hundred pco-
pie are out of employment
| The Somerset mills in Dover, n. H..
are damaged $4,000, and the Sawyer mills
$4,000, by the flood.
| The steel bridge connecting the towns
of Buxton and Hollis at Bar Mills on the
| Portland Il Rochester Railroad, went
out, this afternoon. The loss is estimated
at $4,000 Berry small grist mill went
| at the same time.
| The Eliot bridge between Dover, n. H.,
and Kittery, Ne, WAS washed away, Mon
day. Loss SO, 600
Charles Otis OF Springyale, was carried
over the dam at Dover \. H., and
drowned, Monday night
| A corner of the dyehouse Of the Worum-
DO mills at Lisbon Falls was carried
away, Monday night
| The covered bridge. and several sets Of
farm buildings at Jay, have been de
molishcd.
| Three culverts on the Somerset Railroad
at Norridgewock We're washed out.
will require several days to put the road
in condition for travel.
! Bradbury bridge in Biddeford, al iron
structure, is gone, also the covered
wooden bridge at North Bddcford. Thref
thousand employs of Biddeford mills ar
idle.
| Mechanic Falls suffers as follows
Camptell's mill, Pages mill and the RED
bridge have gone down stream. Tn
| Portland x Rumford Falls Railroad
| bridge has moved on its foundation
| Considerable damage has been done IN
| the Poland Paper Cos. mills.
| At Rumford Falls on the Androscog-
| gin, no damage, and all mills ale run-
| ming.
| In the town of Paris, four bridges are
| out. Another covered bridge and rail
road bridge have been started on thei
| foundations. True's grist mill and
| Sktllings' saw mill, are badly wrecked.
All the bridges in Waterford, Me-. ar,
gone, also several bridges on Crooked rive,
| between Waterford and Harrison.
| Al Manchester, n. II. half of the Grant,,
street bridge and three private bridges OF
the Amoskeag mills are gone. The boile
| rooms of the mills are on the west sid,
| Of the Merrimac, and the mills on tht
| other. The steam pipes crossed one o
| the bridges Seven thousand two hundred
hands are thrown ont of employment.
| AT Bellows Falls, VT. ,ail t lephone lines
| were down, Monday The important
| bridge between Westminster and Walpol
has gone out.
AT Lawrence, Mass, the water in tn
Merrimac is 10 feet high at the dam. Th
Electric Railroad line and all mills hayt
suspended. Six thousand people are oui
of work
A mass meeting of 1000 Auburn anf
Lewiston people considered the matter @!
Immediately building a rew bridge be.
tween the cities, at the Lewiston City hall
Tuesday evening. The sentiment favored
an iron bridge on Main street and Il woodei
bridge on Board street. A vote was passed
instructing the city governme Mt to built |
the wooden bridge on Broad street a
once.
The damage by the flood at Norway /. |
estimated at $4,000. The highway brids, |
at Shows falls, .Jacksons crossing anc |
five bridges on Stony brook are gone |
The iron bridge at West Paris swunt |
around. The covered bridge at Soutl |
Paris, the upper pier is broken. Tier's |
grain mill and Billings lumber mill arr |
damaged. The town meeting was post |
poned, as the back roads are impassabla. |
The water is now subsiding.
A dispatch from Norway says that
Crooked river has swept away min,
bridges Part of the mills at Edes Fall,
are reported gone The track of the Grand |
Trunk is washed away in seven places be.
tween South Paris and Norway. Tn,
fiume at Locke's Mills, and the Green
wood bridge are gone.
Daily papers were selling at South |
Paris, Tuesday, for % cents copy. Fiv.
spans of the bridge at Sheepscot and thu
bridge at the Head of Tide were swept
away, as is also the dam at the latter
place.
Three dams, two bridges and grist
mill are gone, at Brettuns Mills. AT
North Turner, one dam, grist, saw anf
cardipg mills were washed out. Al
Turner village, the saw and grist mill,
and large carriage mapufactory are gone
and every bridge, seven in oil, are swcnt
away. The dam at East Liverlnore mills
is also gone
The Connecticut river reached 26. 3 fs.t
above low water mark at Hartford
Tuesday afternoon.
A Machias dispatch says that LOGGING
operations in that section are SUSPENDED
and the ice has gone out of the Machas
river.
Total losses on the Presumpscot river
will reach 81 900 900. The loss of s n
warren 4 Co is Sl75 900 1t Is expected
that its big paper mill and other mann
factories will be in operation again in },
few days
The Maine Central bridge over the
sandy river at Pennington is gone. The
water was six feet deep in the streets of
the upper village at Phillips SUNDAY
Business Is almost suspended in Farm.
lngton. The telegraph wires are down
ana the annual town meeting has beer,
postponed one week
Inc garment strike at Baltimore is still
on and the strikers are firm In LII. A.a |