Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-17

bt cut away in the afternoon To saw.
the upper one from complete ruin. Mr.
, Bowman cannot state what his los,
| VIII be. Though prevented from doing
| business, yesterday he will be in shape
10 attend To the demands Of guests
! this morning.
II o'clock yesterday morning, Per.
| clVal Brothers, the grocers. began NOV
ing their goods in the cellar of thei,
store. They piled the street with all
| Kinds of commodities. but at 4 O'Clock
! in the afternoon began moving them
| back again.
The street in front of Charles II
! cunningham's store. Water street. was
lined with barrels of lime and cement
salt and hides. which he removed from
his storehouse in the rear to save them
from injury. In the basement he had
stored 100 barrels of lime and about
800 barrels of cement. When he found
the water was coming up with such
speed and force he began the work of
removing the lime first. He knew that
II the lime was wet serious damage
would result and he lost no time in
moving II to a place of safety
Il cannot estimate what the damage
To me will be- said Mr.. Cunningham
though | do not think it can be very
large. | got all the goods in the base
ment and the back shop out before the
water reached a very high mark |
guess the bare cost of moving them
back and forth will cover my loss. The
damage to the building may be consid-
cradle. You see the ice and logs are
ana they may cause considerable dam
age to it. Still l am in hopes I won't
be very hard hit
One of the heavy losers is NJ. F.
Davis. proprietor of the factory or cor
pcration boarding house. The basement
was wholly submerged with water to
the depth of at least six feet. The
kitchen ana dining room are located
on this floor. The cellar and store
room contained goodly supply of veg
etables of all kinds. and groceries as
We'll Most of the dishes We're removed
upstairs. Two big kitchen stoves are
covered with water and may be more
Or less injured,
Mr.. Davis thinks his damage will not
t. far from $500.
II. 'hernoWshy's dry goods store es-
capped serious injury. The proprietor
remained up al night watching the
rise Of the waters. He lost no time in
cle1ring out his basement when ne
found that the flood would inevitably
fill the place. He does not think his
damage Will be of any account.
In the vicinity of the stone bridge the
damage was great. Nearly 20 families
residing in houses north of the bridge,
mill blocks. .so-called, We're driven from
home by the rise of water and had to
take refuge with friends on higher
ground. Below the bridge the water
covered the street from Farmers ho-
tel to the doors of the Edwards Com
pany and from the Exchange hotel
clear to No. "a Bond street. the last
house on the left this side of the gas
house. The homes of at least 20 fami-
lies were flooded in this section.
Altogether there must have been 200
people living in the vicinity of Bond
brook turned out of their homes by the
rush of waters The damage to these
people cannot at present be estimated.
All day long the flood continued, but
when toward night the water began TO
fall it disappeared as quickly as 1t
came But though the water receded
the homes of the people were left cheer
less and comfortless. The cold was
growing more and more severe and if
pneumonia does not prevail to some ex
tent it will be miracle.
Mail Carrier Dunn had a thrilling ex
perience in making his early morning
trip to Cushnoc Heights with a bagful
of mail. When he reached the vicinity
of the factory boarding house he found
4 to 6 feet Of water was smashing be-
tween him and the foot of Main top.
He felt that he must not be delayed
even by water in the delivery of Uncle
Sans mail. No boat was in sight but
some boys had an impoverished raft
which the major boarded to make the
Journey across the raging waters. He
accomplished the feat in safety. but he
didn't dare to return by the same con-
veyance. He went around the hills by |
team.
Traffic on the Maine Central was at a |
standstill all day long. No trains en-
tered or left the city in either direction. |
The big washout at Farmingdale pre- |
vented the Portland train from coming |
farther east. Some of its passengers |
Wdlktd u lulS NitS, DtliS ~ |
procure any conveyance.
Charles NJ. Titus had been over to |
Rockland leaving there early Monday |
morning. When the train reached Gar |
diner he found he could not get to Au-
gusta unless he walked In company |
with two or three others he made the |
journey, arriving here at just l. |
o'clock. He reported the roads in ter
rible condition. Only by skirting the
fields was he able to make headway.
Between Hallowell and Gardiner the
roads are almost impossible for teams.
The bitches filled with water during the
storm and overflowed into the roads
tearing big holes into them. The dam
age will be very great
No mails from the west reached the
city from 80 O'Clock Sunday afternoon
until $50 o'clock last night Eastern
mails have not arrived since sunday
About > o'clock Yesterday afternoon.
DR.. T G.. kinsman. acting postmaster.
started team to Gardiner with a load
OF mail for the west. with orders to
make as quick a trip as possible, and
bring back the mail from the west
This team returned here at $50 and it
as distributed as rapidly as possible.
During the day the post office build