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Show UAH DESOLATIO-V tutj pe Tiie I-iill Uivor IMsastcr 3u- piieuted. ne Worcester, 30. At G.50 this even- "" ing, the reservoir dam gave way with da a great crash. The spiling wall crumbled, letting oil 760,000,000 wi gallons of water. The water rushed re down the ravine with a terrible roar, m, in a solid mass twenty feet high. First in the line of the sweeping flood l(J-was l(J-was the Btono waste-gale house, which tottered: then the keystone of , tho arch dropped out, a corner of the building next gave way, followed by the wooden roof, which was crushed to match wood and thrown into the air. The gate house was tipped over ' IxHlily. Down through the narrow ravine, 100 feet wide and one mile long, the flood swept on. Tiie nt. shies were fairly dug out j elear in an instant, for fifty feet, until ihe edge of the embankment was almost- perpendicular. The walers lore up the largest trees, and twisted them u round like straws. A largo "barn was taken up bodily, and carried l-about l-about filly feet, when it struck a tree, and was broken in two pieces. Next rt-iis G. W. Olney's dwelling house, one of the finest in the village of Bussing, Masi. The roar and fiont walls were cleared out, but the ends stood, supporting the roof, under which the water poured in a solid I stream twenty feet high aud thirty feet wide. Water continued , to run for three hours, before I the res-'rvoir was exhausted, aud j tho wovft of the dancer at' Cherry i valley, the first village encountered, -' waa over. A small coltage house was t taken up, whirled around on the surface tor a time, and then down in-g in-g to the water, Three or four other . small dwelling houses were taken up and borne along till they crashed to- . gether and sunk out of sight. Tho s waters from the reservoir now reached (- Kellle brook, and a vast amount of jI water swept across a pond, struck a line beyond, and was tuned down j towards Cherry valley, Jamcsvillc, , Leesvillff, Sloncville and New Wor-', Wor-', coster. J. A. Smith tfc Co.'s woolen 'n mill stood at the head of this pond, in front wa a dam which had withstood many severe tests, but it crumbled j- under the immense pressure. The pond addrd to tiie 111A.-3. The mill, a ? I substantial brick structure, was next 1 struck and crumbled. A short dis- lance below was Bot'.omly mill, a wooden stnieture, operated by A. E. ,0 Smith. It was litrtd bodily r' to the ton of the rushing -1 waters, was swept on at a terrifi.-' K rate, whirling and turning in every j direction, till it struck Ash worth ik j- Jones' mill, the best on the stream 1 and one of the best in the country, a' 1C four-story structure, with an ell for a 1 ' boiler house. When Bottomly's mill x'l struck this ell the former was so com-' com-' pletely demolished that nothing more er was seen which could be recognized ut as the mill. The boiler house of A. 4 c, J's mill was ruined in an instant, and I i one end of the main structure was swept away. Toe boiler was curried 111 along as if'it was a shingle in a mill etream. Soon an explosion wan r heard above tiie roar of the fiood, and L- a stream of watt-r was thrown several nj feet above the surtace of the current; , another explosion followed, and another, until five had occurred and ' the boiler was blown to pieces, Mr. ?r Jonos nlso lost a large turn, which 111 was crushed like an e'g shell. u' At Sloncville the dam gave way, .:V and iho course of the lloul was , through a narrow valley, ami the roar )e of the rushing water was distinctly heard for a milo. Th flood next u passed over a small dam and tho . Boston and Albany railroad, just . above Jamcsvilie depot. Tiie em-ie em-ie bankment gave way opening a gap 400 or 500 feet long and twenty deep. A stream forced iUelf on lo the line ... of the load lifting the rails and lieB bodily turning them topsy turvy (or 13' more than a mile. At Curtis' pond lc" it bored a hole down inlo the road bed nfj and made a gap nbout eighty feat , long and forty-five or fifty leet deep. ' Tho branch road track was taken :es up bodily and carried over f" on to the main road. Tho flood reached Lccsvillo about two sf- hours alter the dam struck the sati-m" sati-m" net mill owned by Albert Curtis. The iea wall crumbled into ruin?, and the dam was carried away. Three hours re" after the dam broke away, the elleot Llr" was felt at New Worcester. The course of the stream from tho reser-)n' reser-)n' voir through other villages is nine miles, showing that tho water ad-"ie ad-"ie vanced at the rale of throe- tnilca an ;jie hour. The first mile, however, was ;lie made in tlireu minutes. "ue At Curtis' pond at 9 o'clock the water hail cut a hole through tho lnt dam. A few minutes past 'J, one end llllt of Custis & Marble's large brick shop 0 gave way, and soon after the Arcadia ftt building tipped over, and was inL left standing on ono end. About iy 0 Ay tho double arch bridge on l!.ul tho Boston and Albany railroad, be ltd low Curtis it Marble's shop, gave-not gave-not Wlly( n oection of embankment seventy sev-enty feel deep with it. An outlet was rr uiado and the danger at New Wor-1,111 Wor-1,111 oecr was Averted. After the second c 11 break in the B. & A. It. R.. tho mill (1 of the Wicks manufacturing coni-, coni-, pany, at South Worcester was then '"' dejtioyid. Tno water then spread v,iH out over a Meiien of meadows and' in thoHoulh part of tho city lliero was a general inundation. Tim water is ld; rapidly Hiilwidim,'. No further il.uu- II n-.-iri (eared. It is impossible lo e.v ver tiumtu Ihe loss to-night, ige |