The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-05
BROOKS
DO MUCH DAMAGE
Doce Bonnyvae Flows Through Main Street in
West Bratteboro and Holds Up Street Railroad
- Milestone Brook Causes More Loss at Jelly
Building Small Bridges Swept Away

side of his new garage and which the
waters were threatening to move for
him. He considered that the founda-
tion of his garage had a mighty good
test, and it did not permit a bit of
water to leech into the basement.
Brook Highest in Years.
Police Chief George Wilson said last
night that the water in the brook was
niger at CLOCK than it was at the
time of the storm a month ago and
higher than it had been IN many years.
Many agreed with him
John w. Hamilton, returning from
his farm in Guilford in a Ford ma
chine, ran into water in the highway
so deep that the machine stopped. He
waded out and telephoned for help.
Two men who left Brattleboro in
big National car for Greenfield tried
to get through to Greenfield by way Of
North Bernardston and ran into an
open culvert and telephOned to Green
field for help.
Wilson Brown and John Vivier were
engaged in building a silo at Mr..
Brown s place, having gotten the foun-
dation partly up, when the rising wat
| ers rushed in, tumbing down some of
| the SbOLCS anu 4OlN41S lnCHA " NlONC
out hastily.
A tree near the Holden & Martin
| mill that blew down in the storm and
fell across the electric light wires put
one of the street lighting circuits out
of commission. The arch lights across
| Main street were left burning all night
| to make up in part for the deficiency.
Checked Rise at Dam.
About three inches of rain fell at
| Vernon, but the men at the power
plant got busy early and checked a
1 big rise by opening all of the flood
gates except the one which was broken
in the last freshet and which has not
been replaced. They took off the
fiashboards and the net result was a
/, rise there of only about one foot.
The expected big rise in the river
at Brattleboro did not materialize this
morning, because of the opening wide
J, of the dam and because of the fact that
not nearly so much water fell to the
) north as fell in this locality. At Bel
lows Falls the rainfall was only about
! one and one-half inches and at White
River Junction only go of an inch fell.
This made the West river, Milestone
brook and other small tributaries OF
: the Connecticut south of Bellows Falls
responsible for about all of the rise
:. there was. This morning at the dam
RI the water was falling at the rate OF
from one to two inches an hour.
The work of sluicing logs through
c the dam was suspended during the
: night because of the breaking of the
+ big boom at Turner's Falls. Although
large quantity of logs were ready to
al go through the dam. it was necessary
| to suspend operations until repairs
to the boom could be made.
Sometime in the night the boon
n which was strung across the head Ol
S little river, to keep the logs from
t straying from the straight course, gave
e way and many logs made this side triI
Il this morning.
e A special of two cars bearing Gen
eral Superintendent John d. Tytel
Is and other high officials of the Boston
q Maine railroad came from the nortl
FL lust before s o'clock last evening ant
d was at the local station for some tim
while the officials were making ar
O. rangements to proceed south. Mr.. Ty
cl ter said that they knew there was
f soft place in the roadbed near Bel
lel nardston and he had received word o
lie another bad washout on the Fitchbur
y division during the afternoon. He eH
7 pected at every station to receive ful
r ther news that would indicate othe
so storm damage of a greater or lesse
Mt degree of Importance.
d. Much damage to highways an
at bridges was done in Vernon. Th
e brooks began to show the effects c
ly the heavy downpour by 3 o'clock an
is at 4.3O four small highway bridges ha
oy been washed away and at least on
oy other damaged. The bridges carrie
sc out were one near B. A. Streeter s, or
on Tyler Hill road, the Cold Broo
ngl bridge near Henry Fairman IS and OF
lg near Mrs. L. NJ. Cook s. The bridg
a damaged was near b. III. Newton
'r- Deep gullies were made in the roads
de various places and many roads had
vn be closed to traffic.
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