Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-04-15
DAMAGE BY WIND AND FLOOD.
Severe Losses In Randolph and Vi
cinity.--Hailroad Washout.

NOt since tue Ireenet OF 1859 has tbs
branch been so high as it was yesterday
morning when it rose in its might and
swept in boiling food to the White
river. Meadows were submerged ana
from School street to the Braintree road
stretched beautiful lake that as a per.
manent feature would add thousands OF
dollars to the value Of Randolph as a sum-
mer resort.
A melting Wind played over the snow
banks Tuesday aud q soaking rain Tues
day night sent cascades OF surface water
tumbling down the hillsides and caused
the streams to swell into rushing tor
rents. From to o'clock in the after
noon Aver brook rose three feet and ia
the night washed out the south abutmeut
OF the Ron bridge at the foot Of the hill
leading to The Manchester. ThGt end of
the bridge dropped into the brook, like
wise two big trees, and quicksand carried
out about rs feet Of the road Just between
the brook and the premises Of Eli Sault
and William Reynolds. The bridge was
not broken and, il it can be raised with
out twisting and placed on Q firmer abut-
ment, the expense to the town will be
considerably lessened.
! On Park street hill a culvert lust above
the little cottage OF w. P. Flint fell in
late in the afternoon Tuesday and
damned up q stream flowing across the
road into q gully 50 that the water was
turned into the road and dug out q zigzaq
channel for itself for distance of fully
ten rods. A second cuIvert went ont and
the water continued its excavating course
across the driveway Of Alfred Webster.
Two new and larger culverts will have to
be built here by the village corporation.
which will need to expend probably R4O0
or $500 in mending the highway. On
the opposite side Of the hill beyond the
Drury house is another washout in the
road three feet deep. The McCoIIom
pond is foil and running over and there
by adding to the force and volume OF the
misunderstanding flood. Quicksand PLAYED
part in the Park street hill disturbance.
too, and seems to be considerable of an
element in Randolph soil.
Just at present there is no shortage of
water anywhere and now is the time to
sprinkle lawns and gardens, use the set
hose and slop around generally, without
annoying the water commissioners.
Most people, however, prefer to play in
water during July and August, when
there is usually dry time and the sur
reptitious waste Of the reservoir supply
gives them taste OF the fun they used to
have chewing gum on the sly in school.
Richard Derneritt OF Waterbury has
been in town this week superintendinp
the repairs on the canning factory made
necessary by the removal of the roof and
part OF the back wall, as well as the top
ping over of the tall chimney, in the stiff
breeze OF Wednesday night, the 7th inst.
Mr.. Demeritt has half q dozen men at
work ana finds thnt the damage il not ~
great as at first supposed. $500, instead of
$500, being sufficient to cover the cost OF
all repairs, including the rebuilding Of
the chimney. The roof and wall are be-
ing replaced now, and later the chimney
and some Of the machinery will receive
attention.
In the field Just beyond the canning
factory and White Cross Milk plant. the
A. l. Morse company of Bethel Gilead
has been storing all winter the lumber
sawed in the Gilead mill. The wind, ca
priciously tearing the neat piles to pieces.
tumbled the boards into what looked like
heaps OF gigantic iackstraws, and the
game OF pulling them out and sorting
them again has been in progress since.
The roof was also taken OF the coal
shed OF j. H. Dubois and some minor
pranks we're played by the robust zephyr.
The trouble at the canning factory was
due to the fact that door on the third
floor blew open and the wind rushing in
lifted the root right OF.
The washout on Elm street is a vexa-
tious problem for road builders to solve
and nothing short of 1900 is estimated in
plans for putting the highway in shane
again. Quicksand is the treacherous
foundation of the road-bed and as soon as
water reaches it, slips away from under
the heaviest boulders with a cave-in as
the natural result. One suggestion is to |
drive piles below the quicksand and fill /
in with gravel and cement to make a sta
BILE foundation. The water is being car
ried away in wooden trougbs to prevent l
further mischief but there is nothing par
ticularly enticing about riding in that To- /
cality even though the road is Liable at /
any moment to afford the shortest and 4
most direct route to China ever travelled.
north-bound freight train approach
ing Roxbury yesterday morning found 4
the track embankment undermined lust
south OF the fish hatchery and the engine. 4
No. AIS, fell over on its side. Engineer
Smith, Fireman Merry and Conductor /
Ham were scalded by steam and received |
bruises, but not of a serious nature. An
other washout north of Roxbury prevent
ed the wreck train from reaching the
scene Of the accident, and the Central /
Vermont line was blocked all day.
The Sick and AlIine.
A. B. Tewksbury has been confined to |
the bed week as the result Of OVERRIDING, |
but is now improving.
Rev. Homer White has been suffering
since Monday frcm bilious attack.
Mrs. Maria Sleeper, who is in feeble /
health, has not been so well lately.
Alfred Eaton is recovering from a grip |
py cold and was able to be up Tuesday /
for the first time since his illness.
A. ID. Steele is very i'll with erysipelas /
but seemed yesterday little more com
Portable.
Miss. e. s. Fogg has had touch of bron-
ohitis and Miss Harriet Wilson is having
a severe cold.
d. Hale Flint has been prostrated by
the grip but is beginning to convalesce.
z. L. Hills has not been feeling so well
for few days as the result Of over-exer-
tion and trying spring weather.
Mrs. T. J. Adams is still crippled from
brea king her right wrist three vraals aoo |