Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-21
Augusta Soaked, Monday,
By Howling Sou'easter.
Wind and Rain Conspile 10 Make
Life Very Miserable.
Line Fights to Maintain
SeryIce..0ther Wire Troubles. 4

Monday WAS the 10Th consecutive
DAY since the month of October came
in that either rain had fallen or cloud
iness had prevailed for the greater
portion of the day, and the long period
of gray weather was varied by the in
PRODUCTION of Swapping sou easter.
Reckoned with other storms which have
come from that quarter, during the
past season. Mondays production was
the real article-a regular three ring
circus among wind storms. and with d
rain accompaniment that speedily
drenched any and all who got in its
path. Anyone who made the transit of
any of the city streets after / o'clock
in the afternoon, or Of the Kennebec
bridge, and didn't get more or less
soaked (the most of EN- more). can
take their place at the head of the
class.
Tho storm began, early in the morn
ms as any storm from the southeast
might be expected to hegin--some wind
and some rain, but withaI some dig
nifty. Toward non. however, the storm
began To manifest symptoms of cav
iseaeious nature, which were especially
noticeable around exposed corners,
where headgear and umbrellas became
easy targets for fan-tlirts of whirling
and twisting air. These fan -firts were
not all wind, and the rain lost no time
in eoaking the vulnerable spots of
hurrying humanity left bare by the
sudden removal of an umbrella top or
soaring lid.
Some of the local Gather prophets
VentIred the opinion that as SOU east
ers We're always brief, the wind would
go down with the sun, but it didn't.
When the hour arrived at which that
long-lost Iumnary is supposed to have
gone Down over the Manchester hills.
the storm was the worst that it had
been fer the day. and was growing
verse Probably the wind has blown
harder. but TO those unfortunates who
had TO be out ut o'clock, and from
then until $50 in the evening, it SEEM
ed that the superlative degree had been
reached, when it comes to wind One
of the worst places i'll the city was on
the Kenncbec bridge, where the gale
had full sweep, and Ne passage of
that structure. at time, was we'll night
impossible
But while the. pedestrians had their
troubles, they were not by any means
in class by themselves. For instance,
the Lewiston, Augusta < Waterville
Street Railway found that the prob
lem of buekng a gale was some
times serious one. The cars on the
lewiston Waterviile line. by reason of
delays, lost one round trip during the
day, and the blowing down of a big
tree between Gardeners crossing and
the Weber Pond station, on the Wat
erville line, caused a delay of half
hour to the ear due at Augusta from
Wateryille at p. NJ.
The trolley line had more trouble on
ing of a pole in Manchester, which
resulted in a mixup of the high ten
sion line. over between Lewiston and
Sabatis they had more wire trouble,
and it was reported, Monday evening,
that the car barn at Lisbon Falls had
blown down.
The Central Maine Power Co. was
also in the trouble zone, and its crew
of linemen was kept busy during the
evening. looking up and repairing
troubles along the line.
The Postal Telegraph Co. wire,
which furnishes The Associated Press
service, was in trouble well into the
night, because of the crossing. some
where, with the wires of the Central
Maine Co.