The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-10
BIG FLOODS AT TORRINGTON.
over Four Hundred People Driven From
Their Homes BY Water.

over -Four Hundred People DRIVEN ioiii
Their Homes BY Water,
Torrington, July Slower German
town, a suburb of Torrlngton, is TO-
night SO badly flooded as the result Oh
the unprecedented heavy rains OF to-day
that half of it's residents nave peeh
forced to leave their homes and spend
the night in that portion OF the place
called Upper Germantown located on
a hill. Fully twenty-five acres OF lana
are flooded with water to an average
depth Of two and one-half feet, and IN
places it is much deeper. The cellars
and first floors of third of the sixty
odd houses in the place are badly HOOD
ed, and every other house is more or less
damaged by the water.
1t began to rain at IL O'CLOCK TINS
morning, and the water came down IN
torrents for over an hour. Ihere was
then short let-up, only to be tolloWea
by an almost continuous rain through
out the afternoon and evening, win
now and then doWnpour that seemed
to assume the proportions OF a cloud
burst Throughout the day the water
rushed down the hill from Upper Ger
mantOWn in a stream eight Ieet Wlue,
making its way along the mann street
and flooding the settlement called
Lower Germantown below The water
filled the cellars and continued to rise
rapidly until, in many cases, it had
made its way into the first floors of the
houses and converted twenty-five acres
of land into lake three feet deep. Fowl
and small live stock were drowned and
barrels of small articles floated about,
AS the water continued to rise our
ing the afternoon the women and chill
dren made their way to Upper Ger
mantown while the men remained be-
hind removing furniture and articles
of value to places of safety.
A small wooden bridge over branch
of the Naugatuck river was carried
away at O'Clock tonight and Fred
Koss, -year-old boy who was on
it at the time, was thrown into the wa
ter, and carried down the stream Tor
a hundred yards. where he was rescued
He was caught between two large
stones. He was rescued by two men
and is in a critical condition, having
been nearly drowned and badly bruised.
The whole front foundation of house
owned by w llIldll puSei anu Si'u"'N'
Just at the foot of the hill. was washed
away and the building is in danger OF
topping over. Four other small wooden
bridges over little streams were washed
away, but no one was injured.
A large open lot near the electric llght
station seems to have borne the brunt OF
the storm. In places over six feet
square the earth was literally gouged
out to a depth of two feet.
In Torrington the roads are badly
washed and basement stores are flooded
with water. Some streets are impassa-
BILE The highroads between here and
Winsted are washed out and the mead
ows have been converted into ponds.
The trolley cars between here and that
place We're Obliged to stop running for
three hours this afternoon and are this
evening running at irregular Intervals
Mad river raised over foot in three
hours. Trains on the Central New Eng
land Railway and the Naugatuck divi-
sion of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad are delayed by wash