The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-08-05

Il
the thoroughly scrubbed paved streets
of the village were given a further
dose of nature s cleanser Yesterday
The ground could not soak it up fast
enough and the banks of the brooks
were not high enough to handle the re-
suit of fall of 2.72 inches of rain in
a few hours. The result was damage
to the amount of several thousand dol
lars and several narrow escapes from
serious injury.
So far as the highways are concern
ed West Brattleboro suffered worse
than did this village. The usually
peaceful and gentle Bonnyvale brook,
lashed into a fury by the storm and
asked to carry more wafer to the
square foot than the pathway it had
dug in its many years of duty per-
mitted, simply burst all bounds and
washed down through the main street
for nearly its whole length.
The water was several inches deep
on the street. The trolley cars were
forced to stop at the cement bridge
about 4 o'clock and not until some
time after the water had receded, al
most as quickly as it had risen, was
| the service beyond that point resumed
| and then the cars had to stop some dis
| tance short of the terminus on ac
| count of a washout
| Men and women waded to their
| homes, and so swift was the current il
| was no easy task. On one side of the
| Main street bridge the dirt was wash
ed away, leaving huge excavation
| eight to 10 feet square and six o
eight feet in depth. The garden O
| d. w. Harris was ruined completed,
by the dirt and stones washed down in
to it. One end of the first bridge OF
the Meadowbrook road dropped dow
rand the fiat below Carl Sargent
was submerged while several foot
bridges at various points were adde
TO the floating debris of the brook
This morning teams were unable t
pass farther than the barn of T. D. /
Stowe on South street, the wall on tn
cast side of the highway having bee
undermined letting it fall into til
street. Bonnyvale road from Mai
street to G. IL. Barrett S is pract
cally impossible, being washed ou
from two to three feet in depth. Th
new state highway that has been pu
down this summer stood the test yer
well, showing the effects of the waite
only on the sides.
Some pieces of corn in West Bra-
tleboro are fiat, but one or two of th
owners are optimistic enough to b,
lieve, if it ever stops raining, tht
Il nf ba foil -,
9 viii right themselves and produce
e crop.
Amea Hill Road Unsafe.
} E. l.. Hildreth managed to get dow
, from Ames hill this morning, but say
: the road is very badly washed almo.
the entire length and that it will
| weeks and at an expense of sever
( hundred dollars before it can !
made safe.
y Selectmen W. E. Stellman W
; obliged to get the help of horses b
: | fore he could get his machine out
his yard, so deep was the water aroul
!, lit.
. In the village Milestone brook pI
= duced all of the excitement and pra
: tically all of the damage. Shortly q
! ter noon this stream began to show t
= effects of the storm and by the midd
of the afternoon a stream of mud,
i water, topped with debris of man
kinds was shooting out into the Gle;
er water of the Connecticut and
great was the force that the cure
= was carried nearly across to the islar
- The water reached its height abo
O'Clock and at that time worked
hind the rear wall of the old je
building annex on Flat street, which
a four-story wooden building owned
+. A. Larrow and occupied in part
the Dewitt Grocery Co. as a storehol
and by George Gass as a junk shop
m As Jason f. Bushnell was leani
out of rear window of that buildi
watching the current there was
sb sharp cracking sound and the rear p
as tion of the lower floor, just to one s
~ of where he was standing, went do
RI | with a crash. On it was piled
of big earthenware crooks and b
rels filled with glassware. These a
. some other articles were precipitat
= into the stream.
The entire building was strained g
- slate on thereof are cracked and br
ne en- and some of them raised from th
to positions, indicating plainly that
inf entire building is badly damaged
this storm and the one a month a
mt Mr.. Larrow said this morning that
he would make no attempt to estim
m. the damage. The damage to the
ar Witt company is several hundred
on lars.
rd. While the water was at its height
ith E. Mosher was using a team and S
i'd eral men to move away some of
heavy flooring that was piled at