Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-06-08

goCC' s SaWmlIl.
Mr.. Joseph Owen, father of Daniel
and j oseph Owen, and grandfather of
@. D. Owen, all of whom some of you
knew, was one of the first settlers of
Barton. His farm embraced lands
through which a part of Church and
Water streets are located, also part
of Park street He was an eye witness
of the scene. June %, 1910, nineteen
days after it occurred, he wrote his
sister in Connecticut from which letter
quote the following. The water
cleared all the timber on my low lands
and on that part of Mr.. Kimball's
on the west side of the river which he
bought last fall of General Barton.
(The man from whom the town was
namely The water f1oated up acres of
cedar timber and carried them off stand
ing upright as the timber grew. 1t
/ let the sand and mud from two to six
| feet deep and jams of timber fifteen or
twenty feet high over many acres.
The water came up to the caves OF the
old house but did not carry it away.
The substance that is left appears to
be all quicksand as fine as flour. The
mud is yet so full of water that one
would sink up to his knees, except on
the hillside where it has dried and
become white and solid, baked by the
sun. 1t carried off two stacks of hay
+ for me, which stood on the intervale
west of David Blodgett's. 1t also
carried off his sawmill and came into
his house four feet deep.
, The flood reached the Lake about
one-half hour after sunset, having
, started at the pond, at full head
, about two o'clock so that it travelled
7 four hours two thirds of the way it |
was fiat intervale, but when it came
i down through Glover it was all of fifty /
feet deep, in some places deeper;
5 on nv intervale it was about twenty !
r feet deep, in the lowest land.
1.-The water in the Lake, (Memphre-
e magog) was raised about a foot, and
rolled so that the fish have all gone up
e Black river. They have caught it is
: said, near the falls on that river,
k (supposed to be at Coventry Falls)
e five tons of fish. All the fish in that
y stream from the pond to the Lake are
n dead or have run up the small streams.
There were only two settlements on
e the river save Mr.. Cobb's and mine,
Y but there were a good many begin
Y nings. If the stuff that is brought
Y down to my land is not good for
ID anything, it has done $500 damages at
ID the least calculation, as it covered over
le fifty acres of the best land I had with
four to six feet of sand. still hope
W it will be good for something some
IF time Mr.. Owens judgment in this
a matter proved to be good, as this land
re today is among the best in the state.
at cat the August term A. D. 1910, of the
Lv Orleans County court, held at Brown
1g ington, David Blodgett, of Barton
i'll commenced suit in trespass against
Samuel Twombly, Jacob Twombly,
IL Samuel Bean, Archelaus Miles, Jr.,
he and BENJAMIN Hawkins of Sheffield,
r. Robert Brown of Wheelock, Silas Clark
of and Richard Goodwin of Glover, OF
st those who were present at the letting
out of Long pond to recover damages II
he the sum of one thousand dollars, for the
,st loss of his mill, logs, trees and land
ed J. Mattocks and Griswold attorney
of for plaintiff, and w. Mattocks ano
as Baxter attorneys for defendants. Or
). Kimball, Justice of the Peace, ISSUED
he a subpoena, summoning David Flint
he Spencer Chamberlin. and Nathanle
French of Glover, and Samuel Lord O.
of Barton to appear as witnesses at the
it County court in Bloomington, on tn
it's 4th Wednesday of August, 1910. III
wn docket for that term shows the follow
ng ing entry. Con. on motion Of d FITS.
la The March term 1911 was held
The Craftsbury, (Craftsbury and Brown
eat ington each being half shires OF tn
the County of Orleans at that time.
it's Samuel c. Crafts was the presiding
am Judge, Timothy Stanley of Greensbor
his and George Nye assistant judges
LAX The docket shows the following entry
ces said case. Committee to Jury-paper
un- taken back by agreement of parties
ers Continued. The jury was drawn an
vel were as follows; Benjamin Mason
his Ephraim Morse, Aria Nelson, DAME
PC; Davidson, Thomas Kingsbury, Sib
ave Stimson, Jonathan Huntington
rial Asah Washburn, Amos Blanchard
Levi Stevens and Macijah Durham
vas Tailsman There were summoned a
the witnesses for the plaintiff at that tern
Samuel Lord, James Daniels, Nathanie
his French, J ohm Merriam and Jonah Allyn
! of 1.-The August term, 1871, was held q
mp Bloomington, the docket has the 10
RS lowing entry, 1t is agreed by tn
ter parties, that this action be continue
ere to March Term next, and that If tn
ken parties do not previously settle tn
ees same, judgment is to be then entere
ere for the plaintiff for the sum Of $40
and and his costs.
,ep, cat the March term, 1912. held q
re. Craftsbury, the docket entry is 6
1alI follows, No appearance, which woul
tile indicate that the parties had arrange
e in the matter before the court and hs
ned agreed to let the case go off the dockt
ock that way Thus ended the legal bait
,uth over some of the results of digging tt
eft channel into Long Pond, in Glove
Ugh. June 9th, 1910. or one hunoreo yea
e at ago.
nge Gin meeting here today to celebrat
+ to the centennial of the accidental d
saw struction of Long pond, by this band
run pioneers, which at the time was col
nart sidered a catastrophe, but whic
she proved to be one of the most fortuna
The meetings that ever occurred in the hi
the tory, of the state of Vermont. Takl1
tens into consideration the northeast sho