Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-29
TUESDAY NIGHTS
STORM RAISES HIGH
J|Nks ABOUT TOWN
Cellars Are Flooded and Lakes
Are Formed Where Sewers
Are Unable to Take Care OF
Torrents Livestock Caught
in Flooded Stables-Maine
Central Terrace Damaged by
Landslide

For a storm Of as brief duration as
was that which enveloped Augusta
Tuesday night it was about as ener-
eetic a disturbance Of the elements as
had put in an appearance since last
summer. although perhaps the destruc-
ton which followed in its wake was
rot as extensive. The storm did not
break until early evening. but when 1t
got underway it kept its pace all night,
and the pace was a fast one. ASK any
one who was out and they will tell you
that it rained, and that 1t seldom RAIN
ed harder. The rain was some storm IN
ITSELF but in addition to that 1t was
backed up by a stiff wind from the
southeast that made its presence more
manifest. Southeast storms are never
very long and morning brought the
sunshine and blue sky.
But though overhead conditions had
changed for the better the storm had
left effects that were not so easily re-
moved az We're the storm clouds, and
some of them will remain in evidence
for some time to come. AS might be
imagined the troubles were due to wa
ter and some of them were serious
Sewers were plugged and drains were
plugged, and the result was that not
a few cellars about town were for the
time better adapted for use as a duck
pond than they were for that for which
they were originally intended.
One of the places where the incon-
venience on account Of water was the
greatest was at the residence of w. Y.
Hunt on SeWall street, where a por-
ton Of his premises We're overfiowed
on account Of the sewer being unable
to carry off the great volume Of water
and made a veritabe lake. Mr. Hunt
had number of hogs under the stable,
and it was with some difficulty that
the animals We're rescued from the wa
ter. although this was finally accom-
plished. His horses were also standing
in the water. but getting them out was
not SO difficult a job as was that of the
hogs. The work Of freeing the locality
from water was taken pearly in the
day but the job was a big one and was
still in progress at nightfall.
Further up S.wall street there was
more trouble on account of the water
this latter scene being the ornamental
pond near the eastern boundary of the
outlet could not take care of the great
volume Of water which overlooked and
crossing the street ran into the cellar of
one Of the houses on the east side Of the
street, putting out the furnace fire and
making that part Of the dwelling unten-
able.
One of the places on the East side of
the river which was flooded was the sta
BILE of Fred Hall on Bangor street where
the Stone & Cooper Co. keep their horses.
There were seven of the animals in the
stable, six Of which were taken out, but
the other horse, which was in q sling
and had been for several months on &C
count Of an injury to one foot, had to be
left
The most extensive overflow of the night
was out on Mt. Vernon avenue. where
Bond brook climbed its banks and form
ed a lake that buried the highway from
sight a. number of the milk men who
live above that section found on coming
into town that there was no thoroughfare
and were obliged to reach the city by
the roundabout way of Western avenue.
1t was said yesterday that one drover
who thought lie knew the way well
enough to pick his route through the
water made mistake. got out of the
road and almost dumped himself, milk
and wagon into the muddy food
But there were other places where the
torrents caused by the storm got in
their work one of which was the terrace
on the west side of the Maine Central
railroad tracks, where the company ex-
pended an amount of money last fall by