Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-03-07
FLOODS In THE EAST.
Loss of Life and Property In New
England.
Six Persons Known to Have Perished-
Damage to Property Is Enormous
Mills Forced to Close-Trnffic
Is Suspended.

Boston, March 3.-The freshct
throughout New England has done
damage beyond estimate. The rain has
fallen steadily for 72 hours, and Monday
night bowling blizzard set in. Rail-
road travel in all directions is sus-
pended, Portland being the farthest
point reached to the eastward, Lowell
TO the north and Providence to the
south and west.
All railroads have been heavy suf-
ferers, and in nearly all mill towns the
factories have been forced to shut down.
rendering idle fully 100000 operatives.
The property losses thus far reported
will aggregate S10,000,000, and this is
believed to represent less than half the
damage wrought, for all places in the
extreme north and east Of the states arc
cut off from communication both by
train and wire. The loss of life foots
up six, but it may be much larger.
Not a spindle or loom of the hun
dreds of thousands in Manchester were
n motion Monday, and the 1900 OPP
eratives darkened the river banks and
the streets, watching the awful grand
eur of the mighty flow of the water.
The Merrimac is ten feet above the dam
at Amoskeag falls.
The big Amoskeag bridge was swept
away at noon, carrying along with it
two smaller bridges.
The Merrimac river at Nashua is three
feet above the record of 1869. Fifty
houses are under water, and boats are
utilized in the main streets. Two hun
dred looms in the Jackson mills are
under water, dozen other mills shut
down and the electric plant flooded,
shutting off power of scores of factories
and light for stores and streets. Three
highway bridges at Litchtield are gone,
and 2S cars, each loaded with $4,000
pounds of iron, are on the Canal street
bridge, which thus far has withstood
the strain of acres of ice piled against
it, but it is feared it will go. Tavlor's
Falls bridge below is shaky and inn
passable. All car lines are stopped, and
no trains were run Monday. The loss
tere is over $4,000.
At brunswick. Me-, so houses have
been swept down the AndroscoggI,
and the big suspension bridge carried
away. Charles Wagg, overseer ct Cabot
cotton mill, and two French employees
attempted to strengthen the head racl
bf the mill when the structure wa.
suddenly torn from under them and
| they were swept to their death.
At Fair Haven, VT, Albert and Will
| liam Rosseau attempted 10 cross the
| river in a boat and were capsized anc
drowned.
Albany, n. Y. March 3.-Freezing
weather during the night checked tho
rising of the streams hereabout ant
| Monday there was material subsi
dence of the flood. The New York Cen
tral is running its trains on the Hudson
| river division via the Boston & Albany
| from four to five hours late. The Del
aware 81 Hudson is landing it's passeu
gers outside of the city and using car
riages. A strip of thickly populated
business and residence portions of the
| city two miles long and from quarter
to u half mile wide is submerged froIr
one to twelve feet.
Among the partially submerged build
ings are the post Office, st, Johns
church, two schoolhouses, the Nationa
express, the StanwiX hotel, the electric
railway power house and three smal
hotels. This was the earliest breaking
up of the Hudson in 1875 years, and was
attended in this vicinity with much
damage, narrow escapes and the loss oI
one life. A family of five was rescued
from beds floating in the rooms. A
nine-year-old boy was swept into til,
river at Lansingburg and drowned.
Poughl<eepsie, n. Y, March "a
great ice gorge has been forced on tin,
New York Central d Hudson railroac
tracks between Hudson and Albany
and no trains are running on the Hud
son river division between these points
The road is covered with Ice in some
places ten feet high, and tine tracks anc
telegraph poles for distance of 7o(
feet have been washed out. A large
force of laborers is at work clearing
away the ice and repairing the damage
but it probably will be three days he
fore trains can be run between Hudson
and Albany. The railroad company i.
sending most of its through trains t.
and from the west over the Harlem
branch of the Boston 6c Albany vi,
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