The Portland daily press., 1897-06-11
VERMONT RIVERS UP.
Washouts Reported In Various Parts oil
the Green Mountain State.

Springfield, Mass, June 1O.-A special
to the Union from Bellows Falls, Ver-
mont, says: For the last fortyE eight
hours it has rained steadily here until
the streams and rivers are fast reaching
the high water mark of April, 1895, when
three young men lost their lives in the
turbulent tide.
The Manila and Card mills of the Fall
Mountain Paper company are down, and
the cellars where the driving pulleys that
run the machines are located are from six
to nine feet under water The boom
which held the large drive of logs owned
by the Connecticut Lumber company
gave way early this morning, logs are
damned against the piers of the Fitch
burg railroad bridge at this place and the
team bridge at Walpole. At the latter
place it is said they are piled twenty feet
high and great fears are entertained that
the bridge will be lifted from it's founda-
tion.
All traffic on the Rutland railroad is at
a standstill, two bridges having been
carried away between here and Chester.
One of the bridges, on which, young
man by the name of Frank Noyes was
crossing when the bridge was lifted from
its abutments and he was carried with it
into the turbulent water below.
Adyices from the north say it is raining
hard and the river at this point is rising
on an average of three inches an hour.
$50 p. M News has just been received
here that the highway between here and
Charlestown is all washed out and be-
tween here and the BuShway farm, which
is only two miles away. there are five
washouts, some of them being thirty feet
deep.
Another special from Mount Tom,
Massachusetts, says: Logs released from
the broken boom at Turner's Falls com.
menced passing the Mount Tom boom at
IL. 30 O'Clock, the boom was. not complete
and SO the attempt to check the logs was
Intellectual. One attempt to put in a
temporary boom at Suffers island was
unsuccessful on account of high water.
The Connecticut river is very high, and
rising at the rate of six inches per hour.
Nothing can be done to check the logs
this side of Holyoke.
Many Washouts in Lawrence.
Lawrence, June 10.-The severe rain
storm which prevailed last nigh caused
considerable damage to this city on &C.
count of washouts.
Private individuals also suffered. Dry
goods to the amount of $1,000 were ruined
in the store of A. W. Stearns in this city,
by water leaking. through the roof of the
building.
Gateley & O'Gorn an, furniture dealers
sustained loss of $4,000 in similar man
ner.
The 1Iousam in the Air.
Springvale, June 10.-The water in the
Mousa1n river has risen three feet since
three o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
heavy rains have washed away small
bridges in several districts Rain con-
tinues to fall here this morning and
further floods are probable. Trains are
behind time on the Portland and
Rochester road.
Washout at Days Siding.
Saco, June 10.-There is a bad washout
at Days siding on the eastern division of
the Boston and Maine railroad tonight
and as a result all trains on that division
between North Berwick and Portland are
running on the western branch. The
west bound freight between Portland and
Boston have been cancelled. Passenger
trains are all late.
Connecticut Still Rising.
Bellows Falls, VT, June 10.-Rain has
ceased, but the Connecticut river con-
tlnues TO rise slowly and has gone up
nine feet in the past twenty four hours.
The total rain fall during the past forty
eight hours has been about four inches
ka This afternoon $50 feet of the Boston
and Maine railway bridge at Windsor
was washed away and passengers and
mail are being carried over a toll bridge
at that point.