Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-12-16
FLOODS CAME.
Effects of Storm in and Around
This City,
Kcnncbcc River on Tangent and
Damage Will Result.
water Covers Wtaives and Fills Cellars AIoro
Waie, Street.

and papermakerS that rain was needed
and needed badly. And so the rain
,,,nc. not in driblets but in a mighty
aownpour that filled the wells. the
s,1eams and the river to overlooking.
causing the biggest freshet since the
Iprins Of 1886. The ice has gone out
below the dam clear down the river.
The river is also clear from the dam
almost up to Five Mile island. From
the island to Watervile the ice is said
to have disappeared.
Friday and Saturday. the mild
weather had its effect on the snow and
ice and the water was running mcrrily
in the streams and brooks Then early
on Sunday morning. a heavy rain start
cd in which lasted all day long. The
thaw of the preceding days and the
ain of yesterday resulted IN raising tha
river several feet The I[ennebec river.
is higher now than it was last spring
and the water is still rising.
On Sunday morning n. feet of water
was coming over tn" dam. At II o-clock X
last night, the measurements showed
u feet and inches. Dun ing the day
the water did not rise very rapidly. but
about : o'clock the water came With a
rear and III very short time it COW
cred the steamboat wharf six fest deep.
MI the evening the water rose ut the
rate of about foot an hour
II was late in the afternoon before il
was thought necessary To notify the
merchants along Water street that
there was danger menacing them. The
mayor was asked 10 have the fire alarm
Iune in. Box y and - We're pulled in
and the stogekeepers rushed tu theii
places Of business. especially those OF
The river side Of W4tor street.
Some nf them had to hurry - save
the goods IN thetl cellars and not III!
Of them were successful. Wien ihe
.ise did come it came with a force and
speed simply wonderful.
Bates & Trouant had just sufficient
tine to take their horses out Of their
stable in the cellar Of their Stur" and
remove them a. i place oI safety
when the cellar was filed with Wate..
y gang of James T.. FulIer's cIel k
had to work pretty lively "a remnN .
gouGs from The cellar W. stairs ana
even then didn't Wnolil succeed. IL il
understood that a big ut nf canned
goods was in the cellar ana cnult Not
nc gotten out. There was also Il small
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