Evening star., 1938-09-21
Il PERSONS DEAD
|. AS STORMS RAGE
IN NEW ENGLAND
Roads Washed Out, Houses
Undermined and Rivers
Pass 1886 Highs.
NO DAMAGE ON SHORE
CAUSED BY HURRICANE
Water Is Backed Up Three Feet
Over Low.Lying Highways
Along Chesapeake.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Ruin spread through rich industrial
and farming sections of Massachu-
setts and Connecticut today as
drenching rains, which have fallen
for a week along the Atlantic sea-
board, concentrated in force on the
New England States. causing hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars damage.
Eleven lives had been lost in the
Hood waters Of rivers and streams
which have burst dams, washed cut
sections Of highways and railroads,
undermined houses and farm buildings
and reached levels in places above the
stages Of the devastating 1886 floods.
Latest vistims Of the floods, re-
ported today, was Mrs. Linda Woods,
Al, nurse of North Brookfield, Mass.
who was drowned when a car in
which she was returning from a ma.
ternity case with a physician was
caught in the wash of breaking dam
at Doanes Pond. The doctor was
rescued.
N0COTu hdlnI2u hepOrte0.
Massachusetts, State College, at Am
herst, reported an all-time record rain
fall Of l2.49 inches for September.
The old record was 1924 inches, in
1888. A total Of 10 inches fell since
Saturday.
At East Hampton, Conn, workmen
labored desperately to save 50-foot
dam holding back the waters Of q
pond. II the dam went, town off.
cias said, the center of the town
would be swept away.
Several families in North haven
were evacuated from their homes by
rescue workers.
In Peterboro, N. H., so families
were evacuated from second-floor
tenements as the Contookook and
Nukanurit Rivers raced through the
town. Farm buildings were pitched
into both streams. business establish.
ments in the main street were flooded
and two bridges destroyed.
Hurricane on Coast.
Meanwhile, tropical hurricane
swept up the Atlantic of the North
Carolina Coast, causing high tides and
carrying threat to ocean shipping in
its path, but apparently causing no
damage Of importance on shore.
The United States Weather Bureau
at Washington reported at 8 am. that
the storms center was then about IS
miles east Of Cape Hatteras, and mov-
ing rapidly north-northeastward.
Storm warnings were ordered up as
far north as eastport, Me. They were
already flying from Wilmington to Cape
Hatteras. Small craft were advised
to take precautions, as the disturbance
was attended by gales over wide area.
and winds of hurricane force, (75 miles
on hour or more), near the center.
Paul Hess, Weather Bureau head at
Wilmington, N. c., said the storm
passed northward 200 miles east OF
| Wilmington about $3.50 am. High
tides and heavy seas were the only
effects noted in the vicinity.
One Street Blocked.
Elizabeth City, N. c.. reported one
street was blocked late yesterday as
the result of an abnormally high tide.
but said the water had receded today.
Clear weather and light winds pre-
vailed there today.
Manteo, near Elizabeth City, was
without power for several hours after
q number Of power poles had been
blown down. Mail boats and ferries
remained in port there as measure OK
safety.
On the lower Eastern Shore of Mary
land employees Of the State Roads
Commission labored to keep highways
open to motor traffic. The wind had
backed up water some 3 feet over low
lying sections of highways along
Chesapeake Bay.
| A snow furry was reported at Blue
field, Va. The snow swept over East
River Mountain near Bluef1eld.
Drenching rains centered their most
destructive force today in the New
England States, where damage already
runs into hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars.
Near 1896 Flood Levels.
Turgid Massachusetts, rivers neared
1896 flood levels. Half dozen bridges
had been carried away and industrial
plants In Gardner, Athol and South
bridge, flooded by rising waters, we're
shut down.
A dam and two bridges at Baldwins-
Vile, near Gardner, which had with
stood the 1886 flood, were carried
away and the Boston g. Maine Rail-
road reported five wash-outs, the worst
at Winchendon, Mass, where an en-
CINE and two cars were derailed.
Many bridges, dams and State
highways were washed out in Con-
necticut, where rainfall since Saturda!
was more than twice the normal pre-.
cipitation for the entire month. Ths
Connecticut River at Hartford wa.
more than feet above the flooe
stage Of 1917 feet and at Staffort
Springs residents Of the town waitet
disconsolately the sounding of tn
| fire signal a . warning to desert thei
homes II the big dam breaks.