The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-04-12
Interstate Bridge
Wrecked By Flood
Continued from mage one)

between Lyndonville and Lyndon
it looks like a miniature map OF
the Philippine Islands with ali the
clumps of trees as little islands
The highway is impossible there
and also lower down between Lyn-
don and East Lyndon. The dams
at the Vail power plant, the Lyn-
donville electric plant and at st.
Johnsbury Center carry water
| enough to run all the railroads in
the country were they harnessed
up. AS yet they have been able
to function properly and no dam
age has been done.
When the water at Paddock
Village runs more tnan a foot over
the island, it is safe to say that
a record flow is being registered.
The highways to ST. Johnsbury on
the east side is rooded and the
shopmen who drive to their work
all had to go over the hill.
When the mail train left st.
Johnsbury, the passenger were in
formed that there would be no SER
vice south of Wells River. David f.
Porter who had started on bus
mess trip to Springfield, decided to
postpone it. A travelling man who
thought he must get to Holyoke
asked the trainmen if he could
get stateroom on that boat for
the voyage, and then settled back
resigned TO the inevitable and was
heard to remark: "Oh hum, water,
water everywhere, and nothing to
drink"
Below St. Johnsbury the mead
oW5 are all under wafer. 1t is I'M
possible to get to the island. There
isn't any. All there is that stlcGs
out above the flood on the Kicker
meaooW IS tree. AT the Campus
Wnere the Sleepcr's river JOINS the
PasSumpSlc, there Is water up over
the bleachers, and If the base bali
season was scheduled to open here
W edneSday, as 1t is in boston, 1t
would have to be postponed, Tor
the grounds are several 1eet under
water.
AT Passumpsic the water clears
/ a
Inches and The mass of it that goes
over the dam, SHOWS what might
happen if it did not have a place
to run OFT freely. East barnet looks
like Il modern venlce. ne water is
up 10 the creamery steps IN the
highway, and the Richardson
meadow Is d lake, with the house
occupied by Joe Capron, south OF
the Richardson place, completely
surrounded and only accessible by
boat. The lumber In the field north
OF the village shows a disposition
TO travel tnat Is not assuring to
its owners. The river ticks the
piazza floor at the Roy place near
me mil opposite the station. The
highway below Charles Harvey's Is
under water.
At Barnet, Stevens brook as it
pours under the bridge looks like
small Niagara, and throws up a
mist that covers the lower part of
village. When the sun shines 1t
tunlsnes a handsome reassuring
rainbow. SO tar the high water has
not bothered the electric company
particularly, although lit has run
over the highway south of the VII
lage and gouged a big hole out of
the new Federal ROAD. The water
between the station and the cream
cry Is over the hubs and there is
altogether too much to be pleasant
IN front of the Morrison feed store
and the stock yards.
The flood just accommodates it.
self under the Monroe bridge and
the piers above McIndoes are COW
cred with stray pulp logs. At the
Monroe mill dam the pulp logs
jump in the high water like salmon,
only they go down, instead of up.
Above Last Ryegate there Is the
start Of quite Washout on the
railroad which the section men are
watching carefully, and the high
way in the narrow bend at the
foot of the long clay hill is cover
ed with water for some distance.
The sldetrack to the paper mill is
under water and the lower row of
house below the mill have water up
to their piazzas. Below East Rye
gate there is at least a half mile of
highway under water
Above Wells River the banks are
just full as can run without over
flowing and the whole volume
dashes down on the wrecked bridge
between Wells River and Woods |
vile in a way that would be hope
less were it not entirely free from
ice.
On the Montpelier & Wells Riv-
er railroad the bridge at South
Ryegate is so badly undermined |
that It IS considered unsafe and ser
vice was onl y maintained by car
lylng by. No freights were run.
Unless more rain is added, it is
expected that the flood has reached
its highest level and no further da-
mage is looked for After the
steady doWnpour everything looks
as if it had been through wringer
on wash day and scrubbed clean.
The grass on the hill is beginning
TO show green and when the sun
shines there is plenty of water for
a rainbow.
1t was a busy night at the var
ious stations of the Twin State
Gas and Electric Company and
Manager Bill was up all night
watching the steady rise of the
Passumpsic river where the five
stations of the local plant are To-
Gated. At no time during the night
was the service suspended, but at
one time the steam power plant at
the railroad station, the only one
equipped with steam power, was
carrying all the load anG the new
plant has been running through
the forenoon with a greatly reduc-
ed load. There vas a drop in the
volume of water of about six inch