The Portland daily press., 1896-03-04

IN paSSluR oVGr tn0 terrlDle 1000 be-
meath.
STAGE LINES BENEFITED.
Doing Much Business While Railroads are
Held Up-The Rochester Carrying the
Ogdensburg's Mails.
Mr. C. e. Higgins of Standish, who
runs mail stage route from Gorham to
East Limington, and another from
Standish to Sebago Lake, said yesterday,
that because the Maine Central was not
running on the Mountain division, ho
carries the mail from Gorham to STAN
dish and then to Sebago, also1he trans
fers passengers in this way, they COM
ing out from Portland OIL the Rochester.
At Sebago they didn't get any mail
Monday, but now that the use Of the
stage line and the Rochester has been
adopted, they'll get one mail day until
the bridge at Westbrook is replaced.
Yesterday morning Mr.. Higgins said
he had five passengers down from STAN
dish to Gorham. four of whom would 9th.
erwise have gone to Sebago and down
on the Maine Central.
This is significant Of the increase Of
business OIL the stage lines because of the
stopping of the Maine Central trains.
Besides Standish and Sebago. the mails
from Naples, Cornish and Parsonsfield,
that usually go on the Ogdsnsburg, were
brought down to Gorham yesterday and
carried to Portland on the Rochester.
ON THERoYAL RIVER.
Yarmouth Adds Chapter to the Long
Story of Woe.
The Yarmouth people yesterday were
counting the cost as Royal river had then
begun to reoede This is Yarmouth's con-
tvibution to the long tale of woe:
HShaw's mill was partially flooded as
already reported in the PRESS.
Ehs wooden bridge near Shaw's mill,
known as Factory bridge, lacks one OF
it's spans, which has gone on sea yoy-
age
The new iron bridge now stands like
monument. The abutments arc all right
but the earth which was behind them
and formed the roadway, has been washed
out, SO that the bridge is now inacoassl-
BILE. 1t ia in no danger.
The Maine Central bridge which caused
good deal of anxiety when it COM
menced to tip over. is now all right The
roads bridge builders were promptly on
hand and saw to it that the bridge was
properly secured. These trou,b,s are
serious but there are worse, for the vii
fn,x fr~ lrr1 80 I'll
the water supply Is Gu off. That oopdi-
ton of things came about in this way.
When the flood struck the electric light
station, it took out the side walls, each
about thirty feet in length, giving the
water chance to make clean sweep
through what Is left OF the building. The
water improved the opportunity and bur-
led up the dynamos and other costly ma
ohinery. When the factory bridge went
out it broke the water main and in adj
dition to that the pumping station at
the pulp mill is flooded above the level of
the furnaces, SO that The water supply Is
shut off.
The pulp mill was also flooded to such
anlextent that at one time 1t asw impossi-
BILE to enter some parts of it. The loss
here, it Is said, will be $4,000.
Weston's machine shop was flooded and
the underpinning washed away SO that
the building settled badly. In addition
to this many patterns were destroyed,
loss of much Importance in business
of this kind.
The new shoe shop which is in process
of erection for Hodsdon & Sou, whose
old factory was burned, Is in the list of
losses. The factory was not destroyed
but good deal of thu stone foundation
walls was washed away and car load of
lumber is gone. Many smaller buildings
such as sheds and out houses were swept
away. including q store house owned by
Mr.. A. H. Parsons.
From three to six feet of water is wash
ing through the grist mill yrrd. The
horse stables carried away and the old
Baker store (built in '42) fgated off.
Two walls of A. Cleave's planning mill
washed out. W&
A message to the PRESS from North
Yarmouth says: sit Is the greatest
freshet ever known here. Royal river be-
gan rising Saturday and rose about 81
feet, carving away the two large bridges
near the g. T. r. STATION. The other
bridges In the town axe more or less dam
aged.