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

Considerable damage was done at South
Portland by the storm, mostly by the
water which flooded many Of the cellars
The basement of the Peoples church on
East High street, was flooded. The del
uge OF water put out the fire in the fur
mace and services mad to be postponed
for the day.
Quincy Dyer's stable on School street,
was in the centre of good sized lake
and Mr.. Dyer had to construct a raft be-
fore he was able to reach the building.
He found everything all right inside and
his animals perfectly dry.
Mr. j. f. Merriman, who also has a
stable on School street, waded through
the water surrounding his place and
found his horse standing in water above
his knees. He led the animal out and
took him to dryer quarters.
Many of the houses stood in what
looked to be fair sized lakes and several
people were unable to leave their houses.
Mr.. f. P. Harrington of sKincaid
street, was among these unfortunates,
but he and his family finally overcame
the difficulty by climbing fence at the
back of the house and going along to the
bnck door of another house fronting on
another street. They were thus enabled
TO get out on the street..
There was also the humorous side to
tho affair, and people who were unable
to get out made the best of it in the
house. Mr.. Geo. York of School street
was one of these. His house was COM
pletely surrounded by water and he was
unable OF get out without wading. He
therefore swung an American flag, union
down, to the breeze as a sign of distress
and kept it there all day.
There was bad washout on a cross
road leading from Broadway to the Cot
tage road, where the electric oars turn
up from Knightville. Here the water
had dug gulley across the road about
foot deep and about five feet wide. This
was the only washout of any consequence
in this part of the town, although the
roads were washed out quite badly in
many places.
PLEASANTDALE.
The most damage at Pleasantdale was
done to the store of W. E. Dyer, aud will
amount to about $500. The floor Of this
store is almost on level with the street
and was covered with perishable goods
mostly in -four and smaller articles. The
store was flooded to the depth of over a
foot on the level and many of the goods
were entirely destroyed. The flood was
caused by the breaking of the Boston &
Maine dam in front of the depot, which
is directly opposite Mr.. Dyer's store.
This dam was built to supply the rail-
road engine house with water and had a
outlet. There is ou1vert under the rail
road track which would ordinarily carry
off the surplus water, but the heavy rain
was too much for it and the water simply
flowed right over it. The gate was not
large enough to carry off the constantly
the dam overflowed and the water poured
into Mr.. Dyer's store. The.section men.
with outside help, finally succeeded in
breaking away several feet in the centre
of the dam and gave the water an outlet
but not before severe damage had been
done.
About 200 feet of the large dam belong
ing to Clark & Chaplain broke early in
the morning, letting the water and ice
all out on to the flats. The only damage
fof any consequence was to the dam itself,
which will take sorne time to repair
CASH'S CORNER.
The water started the bridge leading