Sun-Journal from Lewiston, Maine • 1

Established April 20 1801 UE WISTOK MAINE MONDAY MARCH 2180(5 07 Per Tear by Mall fn Advance 08 wben not paid in Advanca 08 Per Year by Carrier in Advance 1 Highest of all in Leavening Latest Report Absolutely pure 'v Fiercest Floods in the History of Central Maine the Androscoggin and Kennebec Valleys as It had been soaked ont In previous freshets Bo he crossed tbs bridge from the Anbnrn tide end ent off the drive-belt' In the engine room moving that and dthes 1 articles la the pUee to an upper floor -When he and Jordan essayed to retain to Auburn tha officer oiv guard warned them not to do so bnt they determined to croas the already tottering bridge Benson says that tha middle spans were toaslng'like a boat on a heavy ocean awell 1 and every section of trass below the roadway was groaning grating and creaking la -a terrifying fashion Tho bridge varied its motion by awajlng aidewaya until ths tali telegraph and electric light poles tottered-like drunken men As tho structure swayed to and fro It brought up with Jerks and yanks sent one pole after another 4 Both Bridges Carried Away Between Lewiston and Auburn of Thousands of Dollars Damage Done and Waters Gaining in Volume on Monday Noon The iron-mercy Upon ot the blood is often not satisfied with causing dreadful sores but racks the body' with tho pains of rheumatism until Sarsaparilla enres four years ago I-became afflicted with scrofula and rheumatism Saspor scronua luia 110 1 victims This jlcmon Banning aorea broke ont on my thighs Pieces of bone' cams out and an operation' was contaminated I had rheumatism In my legs drawn np out of ahape Xloatap- petite could not sleep' I was a perfect wreck I continued to grow worse and Anally gave np the doctor's treatment to take Sarsaparilla Soon appetite mime beck the sores commenced to heal My limbs straightened ont and I threw away my cratches I am now stout and hearty and am farming whereas four years ago I was a cripple -I gladly recommend uHban Hammond Table Grove Illinois Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier All druggist $1 Prepared only by CL I Hood tc Co Lovell Mass mif- Uver lib easy to flood HlllS take easy to operate ssc the country roads and hills the water in the river was rising over the Ice and the ice Itself was commencing to come np toward the high with mark The last of the Turner fanners to cross on the lea above the dam did it with his hair creeping All night It ponred When Lewiston drew aside Its curtains and looked oat Sunday morning It wae a spring day early sloppy and drizzly spring All day long It drizzled and rained frantically by tarne In the mopping Lewiston business Dams Booms and Bridges Swepit Away All Along the Upper Androscoggin' and at Farmington New Gloucester Tur ner' Ganton and Rumford Maine Central Abutments' Carried Out on Turner St All Traffic No Railroad Trains for Days to Mills Shut Down Electric Car LineB Suspended Estimates of Damage and Full Story of the Scenes THEJOURNAL INDEX 2ge 1 Telegraphic and General Snri I Sports Personal and General KewsJ Markets Marriages Births and Deaths Pas The Flood Continued Pace 4 Edltorlni State Chat Page (-local Kews Musical World Fashions rge View The laughter of the Moment Maine Towns West Penob scot 8 Association Main Shipping Pag 7-Locil and Telegraphle Hews Pag (-Loral and General Hews SNOW NEXT Promise of Snow for Hew England Monday Fair Colder Wednesday Washington March 2 The following la the forecast for New England Snow to- night Tncsday probably fair decidedly colder with continued' cold weather Wednesdays northerly to northwesterly winds high on the coast ddddAM Will Cherry Pectoral cure yoijr cough? some unheard-of cough Probably would anyway It cures all coughs and colds Unless kind of a UTW HIISI HWWW DAMAGE ON THE KENNEBEC Eritfffe Qons at Fairfield One Winslow Going and Shank Factory at North Anson -Swept Away at IWatervllIe Me March 2 (Special) All railroad common lest ion Is eat off here Bridges ere down at two points between end Portland The Fairfield covered bridge la washed sway and tka bridge' over the Bebaatl-cooic at Winalow Ja expected to go et any minpte while grave fears are felt for tha safety of tha Hollingsworth-Whitney dam which If washed out will flood them at Angosta Famlllea at of the are flooded ont of their boasts One half the shank factory at North Anton is swept away and tha water la still rising THE ELL8WORTH OUTLOOK Sfayor: Hatton's Bo-Klectlon Ensured and Four of th Five Wards Undoubtedly Be-pnblican Ellsworth Me Meroh 2 Al-: -though it must bo admitted that there Is some opposition to the re-election of Mayor Dutton still It da hardly probable that there era enough dissenters from the republican and demoefratio parties to in- sore the choice pf Mr Gerry tha populist nominee et'thd election to-day' It aan safely be stated that -the ticket will carry the day in four of the five wards Horae of the voters la ward four North Ellsworth would not aceept ho person nominated for alderman In tha general moons and held a republican war'd cad an ol its own hence Ita ballot presents two columns each headed republican This ward has always been an unknown quantity and Is 'situated eight or nine miles from the ejty proper for City Improvements One step the first and of great Importance has already been taken toward a thorough of sewerage In Ellsworth Last summer Mr Cummings of the firm of Illsley ft Cummings Portland made a survey of the city and recently the plane were resisted The plan includes on the cast side ol Union river all tho territory from Senator 'residence on the east on the north from what is known as Tewn-bonie Hill and south to Washington street aud includes all streets within these limits It is intended to bnlid small sections of the sewer each year and a temporary outlet Is provided near Union river bridge but' the permanent outlet will ran from Water street The Ellsworth board of edaeatlon in their ifeport unanimously recommended a suitable appropriation for a new high school building Tho need of one la besoming more and more Imperative each year It la estimated that the eehool will enroll about 140 students next fall and thera Is seating capacity fofanly 90 GOV GREEN HALGE'S CONDITION PROVING Lowell Mass Mar 2 Gov Greenhalge passed a very comfortable night and this morning la bright and eheorfnl It is eon- sldered that ha has made soma gain though Ut is but slight DIED Hiram Walker aged Sl Feh SZ Iaaacher Slnuott aged 75 1 Feb 11 Mrs Haney Uoody aged 7S RunTortl Feb S7 Mrs Lydia Bates T-rculn 17th Miss Emma Daly aged 18 28th lift ve Cyr aged A Cambridge Feb 17 Charles Mason Nr Sonte Feb S3 Mrs I SI formerly of Hew Sharon aged 48 WAITT BOND Itjsad any threa brands of cigars on the market com binod The last year of the bminesi boom our sales wore over twelve millions and they have never fallen holow that mark during the dull tim3s' This is equal in good timed to several -millions increase QUALITY COUNTS ROBBINS HEITCOAL YABD A fall assortment of Lehigh and free bnrning coals -tor- domestle nse Free White Ash 'Burnsides and ths femoni 62amokin for cooking stoves constantly on hand at onr yard on Bates slmetnext to engine boose All grade of Wood dry end under cover Alt orders promptly filled apart and when flash boards are put on tbeyare stood down against these the weight outlie water bolding them In place Bat when' a mile of water is poshing against tha boards and rushing over It it is notan easy matter to pall the boards off however easy It la to put them otr like taking the bull by the horns when he want to he handled that way Tho men handle tha boards with long Ice-hooka and with a knack all their own pall them off against the current Jest to Illustrate that It Is ticklish let me say that five men were polling boards eff the Island Garden and of the-middle dam Sunday afternoon and were standing on the lee Agent Lee and John Emerson stood on the iaa nearer tha shore Several boards had been taken off when suddenly the loe that tha men 1 stood on broke off from the main field and awnng Into tha current 1 ont boys called Mr Lee for paid Mr Emerson The men had to leap over the crack which grew wider every second sad tha cake floated over the item and a minute' after was eherned to atoms in the current below and heading for West Pitch It was not a very near call to be sure bnt yet it might have been I 1 do not think now that the lea will go said Mr Lee It Is best to take off these boards and saaa it all yon sen The water la not as high at 4 to-day as It was this morning bat If It has been rising all day ap eouatry we may get some water to-night We have been taking off these boards for several days now The lire Is two feet thick and if it should go oat would do no little amount of damage jl The lee was piling ap below Pitch all day Sunday bnt that under the North Bridge had not broken Men looked anxiously ap at tha threatening fields above the dam If they came down nothing eonld save tha North Bridge Men and boys elambered about on the piles of lea above the dam picking up drift-wood One or two heavy explosions down on the canal showed that some concerns were getting rid of the lee that had blocked ap thei tail-races well-known Lewiston naan said Sunday afternoon that between Lewiston and Berlin were a good many thousands of dollars in logs either In Inlets or on the lea 1 of the main river Among them were a lot belonging to Mr Staples at panton IJThe DIngley ft Libby dam and tbe Goo-gin ft Babbitt dam up river remained firm It was sight to see the yellow water pouring over the fifteen-foot dam at Turner-Greene When they opened tbe gates tho ontabot was enough to make the builders tremble at tha powerfulness of their own handiwork 1 1 At the gate- honse at about half-paat four It was estimated that three and a half inehes of water had fallen In Androsooggin county since Saturday Giving the critical the benefit of th'e donbtwe will MONDAY call' -three luohes That Is deal of water In Androscoggin there aye 400 square of I i territory -In -one-- square are 4014480600 square' Inehes and In 400aqnere miles there era 1664795940-000 square inches Three laches of water all-over- these 8 square Inehes would be 4814387820000 cable inehes of water that fell In tbia eonnty from Saturday morning to Sunday afternoon and if this water waa all to be heaped up' In the square mile ln-eluded in tbe thlsklyaettled portion of the elty bat ween Lisbon Pine Main end Bkla-nef streets it would begone hundred feet deed- and th Conemaugh wouldn't be In' It for mlnate with ns M-X a great county miles J- THE WATER rises 0 Th BiWi Pitch iDemaace all Hlzht 8- day -u r- 1 i ji'-r1- The Iyer kept rising rapidly all night At news eame'that'th bridges at aad other places ap the Androscoggin bad ThercdgethbaMst'ra dam went down th stream Newsl from Rnmford Fells WSS" alarming' lndlcatlag that iua fmmehae jam of lee waa 'above liv I 'ur -TS 'is '-a -iti 1 -y no vt 'li jlV'1 t- £4 Jf? 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'VbJe re A everything to the sea Tbe Brans wick tidings were equally dangerous and Indicated tbat tbe rise of water tbere wss alarming and that Indications were for a damaging reshat in' that town News from Norway showed tbat everything waa overflowing and tbat bridges barns and debris were floating by At bed time tbe roar of the Androscoggin waa deafening The rise of the waters had extinguished the fires In Bosk Block had scat tbe people moving out of all of tba tenements op Miller street Anbnrn which la nearest tha river front had filled np the gaily- near grain mill In Anbura and had awept'away the Maine Central abutment to tbe overhead bridge on Turner -street rendering traffic Impossible- Tho fire department electricians and men of general affairs were all oat and at work tha bridges aland was tha query Between Lewiston and Apburn as yon know are four bridges the upper Maine Central (Iron) the North bridge (wooden and tbe principal trafflo-way between the two eitlee) the Grand Trank- railway bridge (iron) and the Bonth bridge (wooden) They havf stood all the freshetaforyears unshaken Bat no one has ever seen sneh a freshet as this Naftjrb seemed to unite sill its forces against Is a storm of great fury foot of malting snow a Jam of lee a fleet of logs and a sadden- sweeping rise- Everybody said the bridges will 'go Night told the tale The old bridges across which the people of Lewiston and Anbnrn have trod to and fro tlftae years on years gave np the ghost Just before daybreak yielded to the strain and groaning crying- aloud to the night and the fog and the complaining torrent' were swept away In one mighty crash the Bonth bridge giving ap its life about three-quarters of an honr before the -other HOW THE BRIDGES WENT The Last- Men to Cross North 1 Bridge in the Parkneffs bridges This waa tbe cry of mornlngnewa I boy and the annonnesment of th postman' bridges gone the' bridges hp the atream 00m lng excitement 'J These were the cries that waked the np town citizen who? had thought that the flood In hie cellar was the only one In the ity v- cancelled stopped XWorsa end more of It EleetrlesI y' No eieetrlcs cltherl Power off tOy i-vV-i No gee for Anbnrn main carried away I Telephone to Aabnrn! Great Scott! No down Everything topsy tnrvey and the world iiereaboat reviving the days of Noah XHow did the bridges got Th Last tor Thomas IL Bamson and Jordan were the lest Ones to cros Brldg Mr Benson Is an employaof the Carman-: Thompson GoU and- remembarod that th Vi reeling and crashing from ita fastenings The young men tan as for their lives ex- -pecting each moment that tns bridge would be crushed beneath their feet Looking on the bridge from the darkness of tbe shore they had been unable ro reallss how tempeetnonaly the river wsir beating against it Baraly fifteen' minutes sites they had reached the Auburn end there -was A Boomiaar Crash sway over in the center of the bridge The waiehera on either end straining their eyes In the dsrknesssw a great section ol the groaning structure go down In the yellow wafers The bridge appeared to bryak directly in the center and either aide awnng away down atream with load crashing of timbers ap tha rashlng logs and tossing Ice-eakes pelted and battered against it Almost instantly the Anbnrn end swung pfl flush with the paving and disappeared in the darkness As it did so th3 front of the barber shop at tbe end of ths bridge was smashed beyond recognition and he rest of the etroelare that stood' on piling was badly twisted Benson and others Immediately ran down to tba Grand Trank bridge expecting that the timbers of the North bridge would' sweep it away bnt the fragments of the structure swept under the railroad bridge Tbe only damage apparently was of one pier presumably by a part of the North floating timbers Tha bridge went down at 845 the Broad street bridge having preceded It by three-quarters of an hour At daylight the sesne looking from the end of Court street out across the' raging turbulence pf the river was a dismal one Only about twenty feet of the bridge strao-tnre was In sight This lopped disconsolately Into the river on tha Lewiston aide tew twiated wires coiling down Into the -water end one ragged telegraph pole still standing In tipsy fashion Between th tiro shores tbe river bol(ed and boomed great logs mingling with tba rash of tha Ics-cakqs and the yellow waters spouting between On either aide the wires were la Inextricable tangle Superintendent Whltnej of the Lewiston ft Anbnrn Electric Light Co with a large crew wee catting wires end they fell writhing Into the streets among the dodging populace that packed tha bridge approaches watching the flood Of course with the bridge "went gw mala end eleotrlo wires and Aabnrn clti- -sens hustling for kerooena andflamps in anticipation of nights of darkness to come The South Hrldg broke away end went ont first The lea bad been piling against it sinoe midnight end Urge pool of water bad hacked back to tha North bridge Tha under pert of the Booth bridge waa lower than that i any other in Lewiston aa'd Aabnrn and for this reason caught tha 1m aooner There wore six men on the Lewipton shore of the-' river -sIom by the bridge when' at 8 there earns erasb on the Anbnrn end and the most terrific groaning of timber! that wee ever heard about here The Anbnrn end sank end awnng off into the current tearing tha Lewiston end -with it and lifting it high Into the elr The bridge awnng ont Into the current and floated off down atream endwise The crash of timbers and tbe strain of the wirse when the break occurred was echoed by a aeries 4f screams on the Island where twelve hundred people Jumped np from bed to see the dark and Irregular mass of broken timbers float by tha breast of the current Th picturesque shore of the Island was swept as cloan of the eeeama-Uted drift-wood and bouts as parlor fiboV under the broom of the housekeeper The loss of boats buildings and drift- -Wood on this one pines emonnt to about 1200 Just'beforf tha Bonth bridge went ont back waa driven aeroas from the Lewiston horn to an Aabnrn honse where a wadding had occurred As tha hack neeret th Auburn end 1 Brldg Shook -so that It nearly throw down tha bonsai When the passengers had been delivered at tha New Aabnrn hoaM tbs baickman returned and waa approaching ths bridge within two rods at a brisk trot the -epd swung off from the shore Th hack is still in New Anbnrn WRECK OF THE ABUTMENT How to 1 ir IS Tumor Ztroat Brook Ztestruetlon oth Ovorheed Hihe Control Bride Seek 4 Groat Havae in Aabnrn AsMts now am moro worried about the Turner street bridge than any thing paid 8treet Co uiu las loner Goss ofAuhnfn at 9 Mr Banday tha water breaks through thepoad it Is likely to carry every thing before The break seme at 2 A If Bdndap opening np valley In the street two hen- drod feet wide end extending clear aerdes It left tha Maine Central overhead bridge la precarious condition The nly support fer the bridge npa the aonth and were the big loose blocks of granite Lea th corner nearest the Anbnrn Motor Cb hop The rest of he fonndetlon at that and had rolled -down into the gnUy Bel tba buUdinrs fn tbs extensive plant of Ferdinand FenUy theTibbetts griat mill i -i fOontlanad on third pagml Most Distressing of Skin Dh Instantly Relieved by Diseases WHEN ALL ELSE PAILS A warm bath Soap and a single appllcation irf Cutlcura tbegreat Skin Cureaf- ford instant relief permit rest and sleep and pointto a speedy pennai cent and henr all other methods and remedies fail withCutlcura Vj This Is the greatest splurge No oldest Inhabitant dares remember anytlng like It' The big obliterated at Lewiston Falla the memory of the punpkln fresbet Is as naught the history of all freshets 1 literally writ In water as compared with tws-' Never hai tba river been so wild' angry and revengeful Similar tidings of disaster come from the Kennebec butineas street being literally lo tba river' Damage at daybreak had amounted to hundreds of thonsanda and rumors tame thick and fast of more to follow with the water rising every honr and a prospect of a continued rise until midnight A wild and practically brirtgeless' flood rolls between the widened shores of Lewiston and Anbnrn Both North and Son Orldgas have bean carried away and only ft twisted broken trembling ends hang 1 yieet ont Into tha stream -T Logs' trees bridges bablns household effects las ground into powder churning the tor bid seas into froth parsed between tbe shores1 Tba rear of ths totrent drowns tba voloes of tba people onr Ita banka and Aabnrn and Lowlaton -faced each other on tba misty morning half a mils apart and watched th wild spcctsplci 4 9 AM the sola means of jcommnni- cation betwoen Lewiston and Anbnrn won tho two Iron railroad -thsm tbs Maine Central being so lofty and so men alone hardly dared cross it and tha other the Grand Trank being guarded by tho police and only a few pedestrians being permitted to make way upon it All trains aro stopped Electric car service was suspended traffic between Lew iston and Auburn la ended for the time and even the telephone wae mate -It was an Indescribable wild turbulent morning Lewiston and Aabnrn eonld do no work Men women and children crowded tbe banke ol the river tbe lee groaned tbe logs floated by- or the waters raised their bead a little higher' they exclJmdd In wonder and draw long 'and anxious breaths X'X: 1 Tha water-side was In nommqt Ion people were moving their household effects mills were stopped by back winter and elec-trlo light service was troubled Tha Journal tails tha story''- of the flood as it baa this troubldni dayp'-'We have told the story of many freshet but never any like this 17k' IT BEGAN TO RAINiX-IX How the and th Flood Wait tradmd It began to rain at twenty jRUintea jpast six on Saturday morning nd mbet of ns know that It slack- up mqeb daring Batardny or Banday'" Thera waa not moro1 than '-one -foot: of enow pn a level In the woods of Andro-' noon seoggln county Friday night and Saturday the farmera who hal Boms to town were harrying oatrto gst homeTtisv fors tho roads wer too soft for trave-''' In the evening Saturday herv'were BUIN8 OFcNOBTH BRIDGE FROM AUBURN SHORE AT 9 I p- received word that it was raining np rlvsr evsn border than fn Lowlaton and that a rise waa to' baaxpaetal along the river Iront CL Pingres ft Co teams were ont early and a eraw ware picking np things by tbe old James Wood mill site At tba Lewiston steam mill the' men were securing tbe booms by ropes fastened inshore About nino Sunday morning Mr JohnEmerson was direct lag a'- eraw-' of Union Water Power Company employer who were taking Utah boards from the granite dam and the fee was riding on top of It and near to ths dam straggling to break away and float over Agent Stephan Lea of th company arrived before tan Jn loag rabber boots and 'Wearing an Irish frlezs whleh looked In tha disagreeable Mr Lee stayed with tha men and now and than offered 'suggestions to tha anperin-' tendent till lata In tha afternoon -11 oat of tha forenoon was occupied in removing tho flash boards from the western dam a rather tlekliah and dengerona Job battean with a long rope attacked la pusbed 'down to tho edge of the losj Whleh la generally tew feet4 from: the dam and the men stand la this and on rthe lee to pall np tha th topof the dam eroft i 'X TELEPHONE 170-4 ROBBINS WILLIAMS.