The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-07-14
WALLINGF0RD HAPPENINGS
TORRENTS OFRAIN DID MUCH DAN-
 AGE TO THE ROADS.

The River and Lake Highest In Many Many of the Manufactories-Com 2
 Special Town Meeting--rhe School Dis
 trict Meeting.
 The expected cool wave arrived here yes | terday morning, but proved to be a differ
 ent one from what was expected, and q
 very wet one. The rain which began fall
 Ing about F o'clock Monday night contin-
 ued with but little let-up all night and dur
 Ing the day. and the amount of water that fell exceeded any previous record for the number Of hours. The streets in many
 piaces were running rivers, and much dam age was done to the roads in and outside tle borough. The Quinnipiac river and lake are higher than before for many years, and the water Is still rising and will con unue 10 rise Tor some time after the rain ceases. Travel on the electric road to Merl- den was somewhat delayed by the sand | washing over the tracks Below YaleSyille | the meadows, and In some places the roads, are flooded, The lake at o'clock was | fully three feet above the usual mark, and | still rising at the rate of two or more inch | es an hour. At the Watrous Manufacturing | company there were lively times and gang | Of men were at work carting and dumping
 dirt to t strengthen eng aea,,6 the cofier am which | was threatened; luckily the big pipes which
 have been put in from the la.,e to the fac tory are so far completed that no danger Is | feared except to the coffer dam A body of water over two feet deep and 1S0 feet wide l Is pouring over the dam, and the flood gate
 Is open wide. Below the South bridge the
 meadows are flooded and the water is near ly on the road near the Hayden place. At l Wallace's and the Watkins Manufacturing l Co. factories the back water necessitated
 the cutting of the main belt. There has i never since the laAe was bullt-twenty-fve years ago-in the summer, with but one ex- | ception, been such high water, and the prospects last evening were that the water | would reach higher mark than at any 1 Northrop's brook on the east side of the
 bill was higher than at any time in fifteen
 years. A visit to Paugh pond yesterday
 afternoon revealed the fact that the gauge
 in the gatehouse registered O6 lnches the l highest for seven years, and big body of l water flowing through the canal and good
 prospect of several inches more being added. 1 A special town meeting to take action on l the good roads bill. and if deemed adviS-
 able to vote an appropriation for the same,
 will be held in Town hall this evening, md | 1t is to be hoped there will be large at | tendance. Every wgheelman In town should
 make 1t point to be present and bring his l friends and see that the appropriation Is
 voted and another 5000 feet of good road Is l assured.
 The special meeting of the Central school | district held Monday evening resulted in
 the using up of nearly four hours of time in
 useless orntory; and the principal business
 done, which could have been disposed of in 1 twenty minutes was the acceptance of the
 reports of the school committee. There was
 an unpleasant element that appeared which 1 It was hoped had been buried, as 1t should | have been, some time ago.
 | Bernard Kennedy's little babe died Mon
 day night and was buried yesterday i Mrs Frank NJ. Tyler and children of Fort | Pierce, Fla, are expected to arrive here l next week for few weeks visit
 | A report was about the Plains early last 1 evening that the Community dam had
 broken away. It was entirely without
 foundation, as the dam in question has | is likely to be subjected to during this l storm.