The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-02

day, as there is no place for them to
tie uo to, This afternoon section of
bridge, supposed to be q part of the
bridge at Hartford, came floating down
the river. 1t was thirty feet square.
Several boys jumped on the raft and
with the aid of men along the shore
it was moored at the foot of Ferry
street, A piece Of the false work sup
porting the swing tier of the big bridge
was carried away by the ice, which is
coming down stream in large quantities.
TRACKS FLOODED IN ANSONIA.
Ansonia, March 1.-The tracks or the
Housatonic division of the Consolidat-
ed road are flooded and no trains have
been run over them to-day. All traffic
in and out of this city has been by way
of the Naugatuck division.
FLOATING ICE.
Hartford, March 1.-The river contin-
ues to rise and already is overlooking
it's banks. Cakes of ice fifteen to
twenty inches thick have been floating
down the stream all day in large guam
titles.
DAMAGE TO WATERBURY FACTO-
RIES.
Waterbury, March 1.-The city is
again under water. The cellars in the
brass works, Frank Miller & Co., the
Buckle company, the Button company,
and the Electric company are flooded.
BAD WASHOUTS-TRA HELD.
Waterbury. March 1.-The 9:25 train
this morning due at that time arrived
here at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Orders
were given to hold the train, and it
proceeded no farther north. A very
bad washout is reported at Waterville,
at what is known as Hinch Cliff S
bridge, and another is reported two
miles north 1870 feet in length. There is
another bad washout just above Thorn
aston. The Naugatuck river is much
higher than it was in the freshet of
three weeks ago, and for that matter
is higher than it has been for years.
Tonight it is reported that it will
take two or three days to repair the
Waterville washout
MILLS ENDANGERED.
Windsor Locks, March 1.-The Con-
necticut river here tonight is eighteen
feet above the ordinary high water
mark, and is rising at the rate of four
inches an hour. Ice jams twenty feet
at Warehouse Point. The mill hands
have been ordered to remove the belt
ing from all the mills along the canal
in anticipation of the flooding of the
| factories.
AT OTHER PLACES.
Falls Village March 1, s p. NJ
Another storm has set in here tonight,
and it is raining seriously. All the
streams are swollen, and the freshet is
greater than known here in many
months.
| New Milford, March 1.-The bridge
one mile north, over Aspetuck brook,
was washed away this afternoon.
Roxbury, March 1.-THE bridge across
the Shepaug river at Roxbury station
was washed away this afternoon.
| Ridgefield, March 1.-The highways
here are badly washed. Two highway
bridges have been carried away
! Shelton. March 1.-The Housatonie
river is within three feet of the top of
Shelton bridge piers. The Derby cause
way is two feet under water
/ Simbsury, March 1.-THE bridge above
Hoskins' station, where the Philadel-
phia, Reading and New England rail-
road separates from the Northampton
road, has water running over the top
of it tonight. No trains have crossed
it since noon, and it is in great danger
of being carried away. Continued re-
ports come in from both the north and
west of big damages by washouts and
freshets. There has been giant wash
out at Silve Nails on the Philadelphia,
Reading and New England road, just
across the state line
FURTHER FROM WINSTED.
Winsted, March 1.-The heavy storm
of yesterday and the attendant floods
have caused much damage in this sec
ton of the state. The underpinning of
the Hotel Central, in this town, has
been damaged and a section of the wall
fell this morning. Landlord Grant or
dered his guests to leave the building,
and the hotel was abandoned. Water
rose to a height of several feet in the
cellar, and a number of casks of whis-
key were swept out the breach in the
underpinning and into the Mad river,
which flows by a few feet distant. One
of the casks was recovered five miles
down the stream The loss to the hotel
property will be over $100. Old resi-
dents say this is the worst flood known
in twenty-five years. Cellars in all
parts of the town are full of water and
the loss will, it is estimated, aggregate
nearly $4,000. The waters tonight are
stationary, and it is thought will begin
to subside in the morning. Mad river
is a-roaring and rushing torrent, and
has overf1owed it's banks nearly its en-
tire length.
THE FOG ON THE SOUND.
Stamford, March 1.-The fog on Long
Island sound this afternoon was more
dense than noted at any time during
the past winter. 1t was thick all day
yesterday, and few vessels were able to
get through the sound, but to-day the
fog has held. on in inky blackness, and
nothing has been heard moving off
shore. Last night gale of wind from
the southeast prevailed 1t washed
along the shore from New Rochelle to
Norwalk and created considerable mi
nor damage. Watermen say that the
downpour of rain Kept the violence of
the sea down, and with the extraordi-
nary highness of the tide which pre-
vailed will cause much trouble. High
tide this morning shortly after mid
night was the highest of the winter.
The extended period of thick weather,
with wind to the southwark, is unpre-
cedented at this time of the year.
Steamboat men say that all traffic in