The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-31
Railroads Hurrying Repairs on
Tracks to Re-establiSh
Schedule
RECEDING WATER
CAUSING DAMAGE
Trains Running OH Central Vermont
Line South, but Progress is Slow
Heavy Mail Went Over West River
Road Today.

So far as the Boston & Maine road
is concerned north of BrattiebOrO work
trains Of the Holbrook, Cabot & Rol-
Inns corporation have the right of way
over everything, and the little switch
engines of that concern are buslly
putting up the road to near Dummers-
ton where another slide took place
last night this side Of the one where
Fireman Perrett lost his life IN the
Connecticut Extra trains of the Bos-
ton & Maine that Will eventually be
turned into work trains are sldetrack-
ed here and elswhere to give the dirt
trains with their loads taken from the
rock and dirt cuts on the New Hamp-
shire side of the river opportunity to
get to the washouts and fill them IN.
In addition to this washout near Dunn
merstOn there Is very bad stretch
track ON the bend just north OF the Ole
Central Vermont round house. The road
bed Is cracked nearly up to the tracks tol
a distance of several hundred yards. Tram
load after trainload of dirt Is being dump
ed there by Holbrook, Cabot x Rollln.
corporation employees in addition to the
work being done by the same corporation
for the road farther north.
The Central Vermont is operating
trains more or less on schedule south
of Brattleboro, but they are all late
owing to the fact that they are being
run at slow speed between here ana
Vernon, where the roadbed is by no
means as firm as the road officials
would like to see it, although all pos
sible speed is being made to get 1T III
condition.
The water is going out with such
rush that it is tearing away the
railroad entertainments along the edge
| of the river with it. 1t Is this that Is
causing all of the damage in the
/ opinion of road experts, but except for
the closing of the flood gates at the
dam. which has been suggested, there
| is no means of checking it.
The West River road sent a train
north this morning, leaving here at
9.15. The track and roadbed was re
lported late last evening as having beer
put in condition after three days of in
| cessant work The train did not carry
a heavy passenger list, but probably il
/ never had a bigger load of mail thar
was stored in the combination car this
i morning.
i The Lyman Howe moving picture
/ troupe who were here for n belateC
/ performance at the Auditorium Satur
day evening were anxious TO get Il
Waterbury, Conn, for a performance
h Sunday evening. At the suggestion o
Station Agent David S. Carey the,
hired a team to take them to Hins
dale and from there hoped to max
connections that would enable them t
reach their destination.
P. d. Peterson of Worcester and J
A. Fleet of Portland, two of the OF
fcials of the Connecticut River Powe
company, who have been here much 0
the time since the high water begaI
are still busilv engaged in going owe
the territory investigating flood coI
ditions.
The bridge from Brattleboro to tn
island was opened for traffic yesterda
as it was found that the abutmer
at the east end of the bridge had nc
been weakened and the trees and othe
debris on the roadway across the islam
had been cleared away sufficiently
4 permit travel.