St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-07-16
HIGH WATER.
rany Washouts on the Railroads-Trains De-
layed-Some Damage to the Highways In
This Vicinity.

Iayed-Some Damage to the Highways In
This Vicinity.
The severe and continuous rains OF
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday raised
the rivers of northern New England to
height rarely exceeded in times Of spring
freshets and much damage to railroad
property was done in many places. The
freshet was not OF long duration as the
rivers in this vicinity receed quick
ly, but on Thursday they were at tneir
height and are now falling.
The watershed of Seeper's river is a
large one, but this time the only damage
done by this stream was the flooding OF
the road between Fairbanks Village and
the Goss hollow bridge. In several
places the water on Wednesday after
noon was almost up to the carriage
hubs on the main road and people who
came down from North Danville came
around by -Four Corners" until the
waters had subsidized.
The Moose river did more damage
than any of the three hat flow through
our village. 1t flooded the road near
the town farm and the Italians who
were laying pipes there had to suspend
operations for several days. The dam
age at West Concord was OF more seri-
Gus nature. Early Thursday morning
the dam at the sawmill in the village
gave way and the flood took away the
blacksmith shop belonging to c. H. Dud-
ley and the barn and 'ell' of the houses of
c. H. Smith and T. D. Wyman. A tele-
phone message to the CALIFORNIAN office
yesterday afternoon said that the mill
was unharmed, but unless the river went
down the houses where the barns had
been swept away might also be taken
away. At Concord Corner the roads
are badly washed.
The Passumpsic river has done little
damage beyond the flooding Of the high
way in various places. Below Barnet one
Of the feeders to the river has swept away
highway bridge. The st. Johnsbury
Electric Company have been running
their steam plant all the week and arr
now we'll equipped for just such an emer
gency as this.
little below Lyndonville on the roa,
to Lyndon Corner the water was S,
high that it went into the body {
wagons. At East Lyndon a saw-mi
was washed away, bridge near
almost carried off and the road badl
damaged.
There were large number of wash
outs on the railroad and things wer
badly mixed up all dav Wednesday AM
Wednesday night. Thursday train
commenced to run little more accord
ing to custom and today are running
nearly on scheduled time. Most of th
washouts were small and the damag
quickly repaired. 1t seems remarkabl
that not a single accident has been re
ported, considering how quickly tn
rivers rose to an unusual height, but t h
greatest caution was everywhere exer
cised, the tracks were closely watched
and thus anything more serious tha
the delay of trains was prevented.
The Passumpsic division was fortunate
Not serious washout happened on tn
line and the local trains all ran as usual
At Newport the heaviest rain occurre,
Wednesday morning and water cam
in torrents. washout at one of tn
mills destroyed about 5000 worth G
lumber, washed out part of the trac
and let two or three cars into the gully
At Smiths Mills, a few miles north @
Newport, there was another small wash
out. but quickly repaired without an
delay to the trains. There was narro
escape from serious washout at Barto
Landing, where the water rushed owe
the track in swift current for some dis
tance.
On the Canadian Pacific all train
were cancelled Wednesday and Thursday
Montreal was reached by way of Ler
knoxville. The largest washout was a
Sutton, P. Q. There was another ba
one at Stevens Mills and one at Eas
Richford 80 feet long and eight feet wild,
Telegraph communication over til
Canadian Pacific was cut off all da
Wednesday.
Numerous washouts occurred on til
St. J. & l.. c. and the only train
Wednesday were the local ones betwee
St. Johnsbury and Morrisville. Owe
west there are washouts between Wo
colt and Morrisvile, at Hyde Park, Can
bridge, Cambridge Junction, and othe
places. The worst one is at Sheldor
Trains went west yesterday as far a
Cambridge Junction.
The first train from the east came i
last evening. Between Works brde
and East st. Johnsbury there wer
several landslides, badly damaging til
track. Wednesday evening the wrec
train was sent up there to remove tr,
from the track. While there anoth,
, landslide occurred nearly covering up IL
derrick car. There were washou
, between East St. Johnsbury and We
Concord and Mt North Concord Tra;,