Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-07
ALONG the RIVER.
The kennebec Hardly Recognizable Since the
FTeshet Finished Its Work.

soIofleS or what there is To be seen Wi
never be believed until you have Statistic
yourself by observation that they are tru,
An almost uninterrupted view is had @
the river, and ice house after ice house
with elevators and wharves carried ava
or damaged, tool sheds and engine house
gone or smashed in, and even the house
themselves damaged
As the train clears the usual long strin,
OF freight cars in the Gardiner yard, tn
ice house across the river, on the Ran
dolph Shore shows that the ice was to,
near for comfort, the elevator and small
buildings showing the effect
The elevator at the Great Falls Co.'S
houses is torn away up to the level Of tn,
fresheJ pitch, and the Independent houst
had the same trouble, besides losing somt
of its small buildings. The Great Falls
houses at South Gardner also had its
elevator bitten off.
| The pulp mill at Sontb Gardiner had it.
wood house stove in and piles of logs and
ice surround the shore end. Nearly op.
poste the mill is large pile of wreckage
from the Gardiner bridge, probably the
second section to go out. The ice house
opposite also suffered damage to the eleva.
| tor.
| Along the South Gardiner shore the
! sight is a queer one. Ice is in the streets
where no ice belongs, and down near
Lawrence Bros. mill three huge scows are
settled down in the road. just as well
satisfied as though in their usual winter
| quarters. Telegraph poles and trees were
no obstruction TO the force of the Jam as
it forged along.
Lawrence Bros. mill was saved from
destruction by the great pile of logs to the
north. To be sure, the logs are sadly
deranged and 1t is probable that many of
them will have to be piled again, but they
saved the mill. Lawrence Bros are said
to be among the heaviest losers on the
river in the way of logs lumber and dam
age to property.
The Commercial Ice Co at Goodwin's
point, had the usual loss of part of the
elevator. Below here, on the breakwater,
the stuff is piled up to great heights All
the way down to Haleys houses, on both
sides, logs are thickly strewn, and in many
places must have been on the track. In
numerous places the carriage road is seen
to have been INSTRUCTED, and some crews
are still at work repairing them.
At Haley's the shipping runs and wharf
appear from the cars to be gone, clear IL
to the main wharf
The upper Berry's ice house is sadly
delapidated in appearance The upper
end Of the house seems to be torn off and
the side badly smashed, while the eleva-
tor and the long shipping runs look as
though the spring tides would take them
for victims. The next lower houses also
had their elevators smashed.
The Cochranc- Oler upper houses have II
somewhat damaged elevator, and the Same
conIpany's houses at Cedar Grove are in
the same predicament.
In a little cove above Iceboro station is
noticed several small boat houses, over
turned and smashed. The icehouses at Ice.
boro being on the west shore and the eeva-
tors not in sight, it is impossible to note
the damage though it is said that none
escaped the attention of the flood
Opposite the ferry is part of the oil
Gardiner and Randolph bridge, several
sheds, a large stable, and heaps of wreck
age, with logs and waste in endless mum
hers and positions. The view from near
the site of old Fort Richmond, looking
directly onto the head of Swan island.
with view down the west channel to
Richmond, and down the east channel by
Cnderwood's ice house, is grand sight.
Notwithstanding all the damage it So
plainly tells. 1t is well worth the trip to
witness it, and once seen will never be for
gotteen.
The real bad features of the case come
into view at Iceboro where the rear end
of the jam stopped. The lea is now piled
In heaps big cakes endwise, sidewise and
crosswise, logs in all directions and gen.
eral state of mixed-upedness on every side.
The knickerbockcr Steam Towage Co.'S.
coal shed at The Kennebec Market wharf.
is still there, but in demoralized condi-
tion. Half of the north side and the east
end is crushed in and the piling more CT
less twisted and smashed The wharf and
gangway leading to it are badly broken
up. and several boat houses and sheds are
strewn about. Morse's ice house on the
Dresden side is also minus part of its
elevator and sheds