New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-03
FLOODS IN NEW-ENGLAND.
MILLS CLOSED, BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY
AND TRAFFIC IMPEDED.
THOUSANDS OF MILL HANDS TEMPORARILY OUT
OF ENPIOYMENT-FEw RAILROADS RUN
MING IN THE FAR NoRTH-A MAN
DROWNED AT BELLOWS
FALLS. VT.

Boston March 2-Dispatches from all parts or
New-Hampshire and Vermont report great damage
70 property by freshets. The heavy rams OF 'he
last two days have melted the snow that covered
the ground and rotted the ice in the rivers caus
ing nearly all streams overflow their banks
Highways are submerged. railroads washed out
in many places and traffic badly interrupted The
Connecticut, Merrimac, Passumpsic' concord
Nashua Souhegan, Winooski and other rivers are
higher than for years. Mills along the river banks
have been flooded and will not be able to run until
the water subsidies Thousands of people are thrown
out Of employment for the time.
The floods have badly delayed the mails due in
this city The Postofice is informed that all trains
north and south Of Concord. y. H.. have been can
.celled on account Of the floods
Lawrence Mass. March 1.-The Merrimac is
forty-three feet high the DAM and is still rising
This is within about foot of the top mark reached
last spring, when the river the highest II had
been for years. The mills along the banks are all
shu, down. and thousands of operatives are idle
Lowell. Mass. March 2.-Between 10000 and 1900
people in Lowell idle to-day because OF the ire
mendous rise OF the Merrimac River. AT a m.
to-day the gauge showed a height OF ten feet OF
water over the Pawtucket dam.
Haverhin Mass March 2-The great freshet IN
the Merrimac River has done and is doing i'm
mense damage in this place. II Is estimated that
at least 1000 people are idle.
Dover n. H.. March 1.-The superintendent of the
Cocheco Manufacturing Company estimates the
damage by flood to that concern al 10000. The
damage to the Sawyer Woollen Company will reach
$4,000 1t will the city 500 900 rebuild bridges
All business in the mills is suspended.
Portland Me-, March 2-Trans on the Maine
Central and Portland and Rochester roads did not
leave here this morning on account Of bridges being
gone at Cumberland Mills and Yarmouth. There Is
way TO transfer the passengers. owing TO the
days before train connection on these roads will be
restored.
Lewiston Me. March 2-The loss TO mills. dams
and other property in this vicinity by the Hood VIII
reach $250.0D0.
Biddeford, an iron structure connecting Springs
Island with the city proper was swept away by the
ice lam this morning. About three thousand en-
ployes of the I.aconia Mills the Biddeford. the
York Mills in Saco, and the Saco Water-Power
Machine Shop are idle. owing TO submerged water
North Berwick Me. March 2-Out Of twenty-one
bridges in this town eighteen have been washed
away
Hartford Conn. March AIT o'clock this after
noon the Connecticut River stood "a feet above
an hour. The prevalence of colder weather renders
II probable that the river will not rise above p feet
Waterbury, Conn. March 2.-Late returns from
the Naugatuck Valley show even greater losses
than reported last night. The Consolidated ROAD
IS washed out in some twenty-five places between
here and Winsted Small bridges are gone In many
places II will he several days before trains can
run north regularly.
Bellows Falls VT, March 1.-The water reached
the highest point at midnight when II was IL rect
on the dam 1t has fallen slowly since, and at $50
g. m had dropped IS inches. At midnight John c:
Kiniry of this town. fell from the Boston and
Maine bridge above the falls and was carried over
and drowned.