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Show The Conneeticnl Flood. I Hartford, 27. The disaster at Staf- fordville is not ao destructive as at j first reported. A later estimate puis j the actual present loss at $oo0,000. A I leak was discovered on Monday, and ; workmen ere busy all day and night tilling in about the waste pipe, but their eflorts were useless. At 5.30 o'clock this morning the work was abandoned. Tbe water then gained so rapidly Lhat in a few minutes the dam opened. E. C. Penney, of the Glenvilio manufacturing company, mnnnl.il a hnrso fit tho hfRfl nf MlR flood to warn tbe inhabitants in the volley. Tbe water, which grew , greater by the absorption of aucces-: aucces-: sivo pond's, as each lower dam was carried off, moved at the rate of five miles an hour, and from tho time of Penney' warning up to the arrival of the water the people wre busy in moving their property. But little was rescued. Ainidoud's machine shop, several tenements and the houie of Parley Howe, the dams of the Phcenix company, Howe company aud Valley company were destroyed. The accident is a terrible blow upon the valley. About 1,000 hands are thrown out of work and industries are sadly crippled. The loss as .far as through Staflbrd springs ia estimated at from hall a million to a million dollars. Much of this is in Binall sums. The damage- below Stalli.rd springs is not easy to get. It consists of injury to bridges and roads, but no other mills are thought to bo destroyed. destroy-ed. The superintendent of the New London Northern road states that the track is all gone from tho Stafford passenger depot half a mile south, and with the Irack went Ireigtit cars and freight house, and two Howe truss bridges. Two miles Bouth of Tolland the track is washed away, the Wellington bridge is probably undermined. under-mined. South of that another piece of track was washed away, and another an-other bridge endangered. The water is now up to the floor, and ia still reported re-ported rising. No damage is reported on other railroads in tbe state. |