The record-union., 1897-06-11
The Rain Coming Down With Great
Violence.
All Rivers Swollen to Hight APP
preaching That of the Famous
Spring of Last Year - BOoms
Break, and rliIIionS of Feet of Logs
Will Probably be Lost-Flood in
Colorado Caused by Waterspout.

BOSTON, June 10-New England
was visited by a storm last night
which, from the amount of damage
done, was one of the worst in many
years.
According to official records the ac-
tual amount of rain was not unusual.
1t came down with great violence. The
railroads suffered most severely, par
ticularly the Boston and Maine and its
branches in New Hampshire. Wrecks
occurred at Exeter while trains were
stalled at many other places by serious
washouts. On this account traffic be-
tween Boston and the north and east
was greatly impeded. All rivers are
swollen to a hight approaching that
of the famous spring rise of 1896.
At Dover, n. H., where in 1896 four
bridges and a business block were car
ried away by the floods, the Cocheco
Mills were compelled to suspend oper-
ations.
AT Amesbury, Mass, work in the car
riage factories was impeded by flooded
cellars.
Considerable damage to crops is re-
ported from some sections.
FLOOR CAUSES DAMAGE.
SPRINGFIELD (Mass.), June 10
Special dispatches from towns along
the Connecticut River indicate that
much damage is being done by flood.
The boom at Turner's Falls, Mass,
broke this morning. There were about
5000, 900 feet of logs. There is no way
of stopping the boom, or the one that
broke at Bellows Falls, Vt, until they
reach Mount Tom, near Northampton.
The dam of the Warner Manufactur-
ing Company, at Greenfield, broke this
morning. 1t was built Of solid rock and
was fifty feet long and twelve feet high.
A portion of the dam of Eddy & Son
also gave way. At Charlemont, Mass,
a sawmill dam, owned by H. T. Ford,
went out this morning.
HEAVY RAINFALL.
BELLOWS FALLS Wt), June 10
For the past thirty-six hours the rain
fall in this section has been continuous.
The Connecticut River has risen sever
al feet, and all its small tributaries are
badly swollen. The highways are
washed out. A boom just north of
here holding 100000 feet of logs
burst this morning, and, unless the
boom at Turner's Falls, Mass, holds, a
large part of the drive will go out to
sea
FLOODED BY A WATERSPOUT.
WRAY CCol), June 10.-A water
spout flooded the country hereabout
last night. The Republican River rose
rapidly, carrying away the bridges and
sweeping away and drowning stock in
the valley.
Trains are delayed and are running
cautiously
Hail accompanied the rain, and in a
few minutes fell to the depth of sever
al inches. Hail stones the size of hens
eggs, or even larger, fell at first and it
is feared they killed cattle and horses
on the ranges.
So far as known at present no lives
have been lost. The extent of damage
to growing crops cannot be estimated,
but it is feared that it is immense.
CYCLONE IN IOWA
MASON CITY Qa.), June 10-At $50
O'Clock tonight a cyclone struck north
west of Lyle, Mimi, taking a south
easterly course. Several people are re-
ported killed and injured. The cyclone
tore up houses and other buildings in
its course, and the territory is now
bare. The path of the storm was about
half a mile in width. All telegraph
lines north are down, and the box cars
on sidings were smashed into kindling.
A cyclone passing over the town of
Kandiyoh, Wilmar County, Mimi, en-
tirely demolished the buildings on the
farm of John Berquist.
MINNEAPOLIS, June 10-A special
from Usage, Ia, to the Tribune" con-
firms the report of the cyclone and
says six persons We're killed and
number injured. A special train will
take surgeons from that place.