The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-07-22
The Cloudburst and Gale
Of July 9TH and 9th did Much Damage In
Camden and ROckland.

Of July 9TH and 9th did Much Damage in
Camden and Rockland.
The storm of July 7-8, while it extend
ed all over the State, was very severe in
Camden and Rockland. The Camden
Herald gives the following details of the
damage done in that town:
High street was one of the worst suf-
ferers. At the Eaton bridge, the noun
vert that for half century has proved
water backed up in the Huse field until
it formed lake 20 feet deep, overflowed
the bridge in torrent and so soaked
and permeated the center of the road on
the bridge that the whole middle caved
in to depth of Is feet, making it i'm
passable. High street all the way was
badly washed, but at Spring Brook half
OF that bridge was washed out and
though passable it was unsafe until tenn
porary repairs were made the next day.
The road the entire length of the hill on
this side was like the bed of mountain
stream and along the bitches was quilted
tosthe depth of several feet.
Turnpike Hill is another place that
felt the severest effects of the Storm
1t was rendered absolutely impossible.
The greater part of the way the road was
quilted out from 2 to 6 feet deep, leaving
nothing but bed of rocks, and the way
large rocks were carried along illustrates
the great power of the flood of water
The flow of water down this hill must
have equalled the normal flow of Me-
gunticook river. This road was quilted
and washed out as far as the old picnic
ground at the entrance to the Turnpike
The hill is still impossible but the rest of
the road has been fixed temporarily so
the Turnpike is passable by way of Lake
City.
The road at the foot of Washington
street was also terribly quilted. This
was caused by the river rising so high
that the Knox Mill dam was overfiowed
and this torrent flowed down by their
wool storehouse and across the foot of
Washington street by the mill of the
Talbot Grain Co. Both this company
and the Knox mill had considerable dam
age by stock being wet by the high water
in the river and this overflow. Most
people feel that only the fact that Me-
gunticook Lake was very low for the
time of year saved our town from awful
damage. All the water that came down
the river was from this side of the Lake
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was coming from the lake. One cause
of the sudden rise of the river was the
fact that the flush boards on the Sea-
bright mill dam were carried away bv
the weight of water.
There was bad washout on Chestnut
street at the brook. Here new culvert
had been put in recently, but the water
was blocked by some refuse, flowed back
and overflowed the road and the soft
dirt was washed away so that the whole
street for about two rods was washed
out.
Besides the places mentioned are hum
dreds of smaller places on the various
streets and roads that were washed bad
y and bitches were quilted out from to 3
feet deep.
The hill in the Barnes district between
Ragged and Bald Mountain is in bad
shape. Pearl, Chestnut, Mountain, Me-
gunticook, Union and Washingtonstreets,
have many bad quilted places along the
road sides. On Hosmer Pond road near
the foot of the Bowers Hill it was neces-
sary to plank over before teams or sutos
could pass.
| Besides all this dam age to the town
roads scores of private places have suf-
fered by driveways washing: out, gardens
| flooded, washed out and beaten down.
while nearly every poultry raiser lost
many chickens by their being drowned.
Many trees suffered from the high wind,
limbs were broken off and other damage
done. 1t would be mere guess work to
estimate the damage done in this town
alone but 1T runs up into many thousand
dollars.
The amount of the rainfall is shown
from the fact that Megunticook Lake
was raised over 3 feet and is now or &C.
tlcally full, an unusual condition for mid
July. Mirror Lake, which was low, came
up over feet.
The fine macadam.road between Rock
port and Rockland was partly under
mined in two places, one at Oakland and
one just above the powerhouse, but
enough was left of the road so there was
passage around each place.
Rockport was also a bad sufferer, the
roads being badly washed and some Gull
verts carried away, Lincolnvilie had
many washouts, but not as bad as Cam
den, and more inland towns, like Hope,
Appleton and Searsmont, seemed to es-
cape the worst of The downpour.
Rockland Opinion: cit is safe to say
that the tornado and rain storm which
struck Rockland last Thursday has
never been equalled in the summer his
tory of the city. 1t is estimated that
the damage done in the vicinity amounts
to $25, 900; the F. w. Woodwork Co. and
the II. II. erie Co. being the heaviest
losers. The train service was entirely
discontinued Friday, no trains entering
or leaving Rockland, an unprecedented
event in summer. Saturday afternoon,
thanks to the efficient work of the
wrecking crew, passenger train arriv-
ed. The Rockland, Thomaston & Cam
den Street Railway had 100 feet of track
washed away near Oakland Park, neces-
stating the transferring of passengers
bound for Camden. Their coal shed,
containing 10 tons of coal, was carried off
by the flood. The drains at the Perry
kilnshed overlooked and it was only the
hard work of some 40 men, assembled
by the various fire alarms sounded in,
the night, that prevented serious dam
age from the barrelled lime catching on
fire. The brooks of the city overlooked
all bounds and left ruin In their wake.
The house on Maple street owned by
Mrs. Faunce of Boston was almost en-
tirely cut off from its neighbors. the un-
dermined walks hanging like suspension
bridges. The Lindsey brook was once
more up to its old tricks, flooding the
cellars on Union street from Grove to
LIMERICK. Several telegraph poles blew
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