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the round trip.
There has been renewed talk of build
ing a bridge across from Walnut street,
but it is doubtless safe guess that the
inew bridge will be built substantially
on the location of the old one.
At about O'Clock this morning |
the ice opposite this village began NOV
ting for the entire width of the river west
of the island. During yesterday and
last night the ice which damned up Sun
day night rotted away materially and
early this morning large open spaces APP
tpeared near the west bank. A general |
movement started at o'clock and con
tinued Just an hour, becoming more com
ipact all the while until the movement |
stopped.
The ice in motion extended from below |
the Boston & Maine railroad bridge to |
north of Putney, although at East Put |
ney and north of there the amount of
ice moving is comparatively small, the
river having been open except in the mid
die since the jam near the East Putney
meadow went out Sunday night. The
movement is simply a closing-up process
caused by the melting due to the mild
Temperature.
Effects were produced similar to those
river by compact mass of broken ice
causing the water to overflow the banks
into the highways.
This was especially noticeable on Yer
non street, where at some points this
morning the water rose higher than it did
on Sunday night. At the plant of the
Brattleboro Lumber corporation the
water rose two feet in half an hour, and
there was a similarly rapid rise at the
factories north of there, the water over
flowing the railroad and the highways
and coming up to the buildings at the
Purebred Live Stock Sales Co.'S pavilion,
Z. Crosby & Co.'S grain elevator, the
White River Chair Co.'s factory and the
Snowflake canning factory The street
was overflowed as far north as Mrs Jere-
miah Riley's house
The floor of the Purebred Live Stock
Sales Co.'S pavilion is under water. and
the situation is causing some uneasiness
on the part of the company officials as al
- auction sale of purebred Holsten cattle
- IS set for next week and shipments Of
cattle from distant points already hav,
been started Unless conditions improv,
materially Ill the next few days it will b,
necessary to call off the sale. but it is be
lieved that the situation will change fo
n lily DtNltI III a SllOl LlLlt. Ill view OF Ln'
/ fact that the river in general is falling
AT the Boston & Maine engine hous,
\ in the south part of the railroad ware
the water this morning rose higher thai
II did yesterday, again flooding the turn
table and putting it out of commission
Engineer Henry Powers and Fireman
Charles Price, who came in on Contra
4 Vermont train last night and went t,
sleep in caboose adjoining the round
4 house, were awakened about 9.45 thi
morning to find themselves entirely sur
rounded by water to the depth of severa
feet. Their plight was discovered by fel
low railroad men who carried a ladder t.
/ the top of the roundhouse and let it dow
to the aid of their companions.
At the highway bridge across tn
mouth OF West river on the Putney roa
the water rose yesterday afternoon &
1 the lower timbers, which was three fee
below the flooring. During the ice move
ment this morning the water at tn
mouth OF West river rose p inches. Roa,
commissioner j. {. DUDE stopped traffi
there short time but allowed it to con
tinue after the water began to reeede.
The ice is three or four feet below III
suspension bridge, and this bridge is no
considered to be in special danger. A hol
was quilted in the upstream side of tn
road near the bridge yesterday afternoo
and Waterman was stationed there las
night
Soon after the ice started this mornin
1t clogged the mouth of MILESTONE brook
forcing Ice cakes into the archway of tn
boston Maine bridge across the mout
or the brook. The water on the side nea
The electric light plant rose to With
4 TWO inches OF the record of the night bt
fore, coming within about two feet of Il
top of the arch
Hinsdale has been without eloctr
. light or power since the bridge went dow
and broke the power and lighting circuit
The business places, including the Robel
4 son paper mills, the Leach carriage sho
the Amidon and White Washburn mi
and the Granite State Moving Machi
Co, are considerably handicapped
The Twin State Gas & Electric Co
conjunction with the New England Te
phone Co, has ordered "a sky-roeket fro
Boston with which to shoot a line acre
the river so that wires can be pull
across and the circuits established
i poles which will be set beginning
morrow. The telephone service at Nor
4 Hlnsdale Is out OF commission
The running of passenger trains into a
out of Brattleboro on both the Cent
Vermont and Boston & Maine ralrof
was resumed today. although not exac
-N on the former schedule. The tracks bel
- the Putney station, which were cover
with water yesterday, are now clear a
at other points north where there Y
damage the trains are running slowly
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