Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-06-12
THE FLOOD.

katn1ah vi over iueneS~1lYnWdyS washed |
out--Raiiroad Bridges Gone-Man Drowned
at Chester--RaiIway Traffic DemoraIized.
1t began raining early Wednesday morn
ing and continued almost without ntermis-
sion until Thursday noon; Wednesday
night it poured. A. IL. Brown reports
rainfall OF over four inches and S. M.
Blake nearly as much.
The result was flood such as rarely
visits this section at this season of the year.
The fun began early Wednesday night.
Hoyt's " A Stranger in New York" showed
in the opera house, and visitors were pres
ent from several of the surrounding towns.
A party of about 30 were down from Ches-
ter and were greatly surprised to learn
after the show that they could not return
home that night by rail owing to the wash
ing away OF railway bridge near Chester.
Several then attempted to make the journey
by carriage, but were unable to get further
than the watering trough near j. B. All
bees residence on the Rockingham road
| The result was that all remained in Bellows
Falls until the following day.
A theatre party from Rockingham also
found it rather rough sailing. George Di-
vol and lady, Nat Divoll and lady, Mrs.
John Divoll and daughter Mary, and Mr..
and Mrs. H. A. Adams got as far as j. b.
Allbee's and thought they had better put
up for the night. j. f. Stoddard escaped
the washout at the watering trough, but
got mired in the hole opposite M. H.
Rays, and the report is that he got in over
his shoe tops. G. E. Weeden walked
home, but reached his destination only
after wanderings long and devious.
DAMAGE TO HIGHWAYS.
The damage to highways in this section
is considerable. The Rockingham road
was impossible Wednesday night and
Thursday morning. The pond brook te
the south of j. B. Allbee's cut new chan
mel, leaving big hole in the road which
was temporarily bridged Thursday. The
mill brook which flows near the school
house in the Allbee district left its channe
and for six or eight rods cut three or fou
feet into the road bed, and badly gulliet
the road leading to M. II, Rays house
The highway between Bellows Falls an,
Charlestown, N. H., is impossible. Their,
are several washouts, the worst perhap
being nearly opposite the Pine Dell boat
house where there is gap ten or Is fee
deep and 40 feet across. Highways al
through this section are more or less dam
aged, and it will cost thousands of dollar
to repair them.
DAMAGE TO RAILROADS.
Railroad travel and traffic to the mort
| of Bellows Falls is in bad way. Th
\ rain took the Rutland road at an especial
, unfortunate time as several new bridge
f are in process of construction. Wednes
a day night the bridge and trestle at Cheste
E we're washed away and the trestle at Rock
ingham was badly wrecked. The result
' stopping of freight traffic and greatly in
a peding passenger travel. Thursday th
road began carrying by from William
s Rock near Rockingham to Chester, dis
s lance of l miles. 1t will probably be tw
a or three days longer before trains can ru
with anything like regularity.
7 Thursday afternoon about 4 o'clock tn
north span, some $50 feet long, OF the B
D & M. bridge at Windsor gave way and tbi
railroad is as badly crippled as the Rutlan
/ road. Passengers are being carried roun
t over the toll bridge at Windsor.
r DEATH OF FRANK MOVES.
The saddest incident of the flood was tn
; death of Frank Noyes at Chester Wednes
; day night. 1t was reported here at on
time that Andrew McQuaide was the man
but this was an error. Noyes was mai
about 40 years of age, bridge builde
and lived in Rutland. He at one tim
worked in the depot here helping on tn
new sheathing.
Noyes' body has not yet been found.
I AT the time of the fatal accident Noye
was trying to loosen tree which hat
caught in one of the five 'horses" used It
support the trestle while the new bridge i
being built, when the debris from a high
way bridge struck three of these "horses
and carried them away. Noyes fell int
the torrent and owing to the darkness hi
companions saw no more of him. Noye
was about % years old and leaves a wife
! who lives in Rutland. He came from
Mount Holly about four years ago and ha
worked for Z. d. Reyes & Co., Chase toy
works, and for the last two years and /,
half had been in the employ of the RUTLAND
railroad.
ii THE LOGS.
| Although the Van Dyke drive had beer
going over the dam for over week, it il
estimated that there was 10000, 900 feet tt
the north of Bellows Falls Thursda,
| Al ~