Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-17
LOSS WILL REACH MILLIONS.
Eastern Maine Suffers as II Has Never Before
Suffered from Storm.

| Bangor. Me. Dec i6--rhc cfT,rts ,t
Sundays storm in Maine were more far
reaching and disastrous that was at frs
thought wouid be the case and tile
! amount OF property loss viii lfure up
into the millions. Many millions of logs
on the PenobSCot and on tLC rivers of
n" western part OF the State have been
swept away. Mil property in norther.
and eastern sections uf the State has
been damaged 20 an extent thar rHnnJt
/ he estimated, even. for several Gd.S 10
, come. or until the water has Subsidod
sufficiently 70 allow ~ Il more comr!ci"
examination OF the establishments
THE loss Of logs on the 1'enobscot VIII
reach a total OF not over 1.o-ocr feet, a.:
a money value Of from $Sv.rp to $lri ioot.
These .ugs are q part ~ the Wesr Brant D
! drive. which was 50 late IN getting down
tiNS Year. and th"r wor" not driven into
the boom but allowed 10 trrezc in tn.
ice in what Is known as the east channel
~ the river, from Nebraska boom III.
In reality tIis means that the logs Wcr.-
in the Ice outsiCc tho p.,iS yhut marx
/ the boundaries ot tn" booms. Also SOM
/ u the logs Were those that wer,. held in
tn" ice above Bangor dam. these latt, T
being IN. first 70 90 uut Sunday morniur.
! None of the logs in tn. booms abnv,.
Old Town had moved. MONDAY night but
the water was rising in the river 1T a
q rapid rat" ana unless I'll" cold wave tina.
set IN Ipon the clos, ~ In" rain. Sunday
/ night. shall prevent further rise. tier .
is more or less danger mat these logs
will go
report vas current on thc trcet, Mon
day night. that q dam on tho Mattawlrn-
k"dg river had been carried away AMI
/ that a large number OF logs from there
and ut Enfield and Montague were rush
ing down the river, which meant great
! danger to the Argyle and Eehra ska
boomS; but 1t could not be verified Nci-
! ther could the report that the lower por-
tlonS Of the pulp mills NJ Montague and
Enfield were flooded and greatly dam
aged he substantiated.
| on the railroads the condition is but
little improved from what il WAS, sun
day night. West of Bangor the Maine
central has had all its trains cancelled
since Sunday noon. and while it is hoped
| to get a train through Some time Thes-
| day. the officials Of the company are
making no promises and II is understood
that arrangements are bong made to
transfer mail for Bangor ana eastern
points at Brunswick and send them 10
Bangor via Rockland aud the steamer
NJ. and NJ
! Traffic on all sections Of the Bangor 4
outs between West Sebois ana SchooGic
! on the main line. and those on the
Greenville and katahdin Iron Works
| branches.
! On the Washington County road 81 n =.
as could be learned. Monday. there had
been no serious results from the flood
! ana az their trains We're running on
! ON the eastern division of the Maine
! Central all trains We're moving Regular
! iy and no waShouts had been reported.
Reports from tho Maine division of the
| Canadian Pacific Railroad were very
| meagre on Monday. but what were re-
! ceiVed were to the effect that tine road
| had been severely damaged in th. way
| OF washouts and that traffic was practi-
| cally suspended.
The heaviest loss on the Androscoggin
river was sustained by the International
Paper Co. at Rumford Falls. This com
pany lost more than 2,cD.too feet Of logs.
! Considerable damage also was done in
| that section to the farming interests
; larSe tracts OF farm land being over
iiowed and quilted barns flooded and
| harvested crops ruined.
AT Byron. Swift river rose to such n
! helght that many farmers were Obliged
, to remove their stock to elevated places
and their hay-tled barns were partly fil-
ed with water Traffic on the Rimfor.l
| Falls q Rangecy Railroad will be sus-
f, pended for several days.
No very serious damage was done a;
Lewiston, but at Brunswick the big mills
along the shore We're flooded and work
was suspended for the day.
Eastern Maine suffered severely frny,
the storm. All the rivers Snd streams
were at freshet pitch and washouts were
reported from numerous stations along
the Bangor &c Aroostouk cnu The CAM
dian Pacific Railroads.
Raiway tra!1c is entirely cut off from,
the west. steel trestle at Clinton was
carried out and the Maine Central road
pea has been badly washed away in many
places. Eight thousand logs Went dow,
the Penobscot with the Ice, last n;eht
and today. 10000 feet of the Nee;