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That Great Flood of April 21, 1869, Which Swept Through the Town of Moriah With the Besom of Destruction.Speaking of tiie r«*at flood of April, 1 stiff, tin? Essex County Republican of last week said: Weshould be glad to have additional ts given us regirdiug this tet*rii t.I I il-1 t . ole event.in thus connection we quote f ft mutlit* I»o.Ht of April 211, as fol*lows:We are umler obligations to U, C.1 Jeers. Kslt;j** fur the following ue eotini of the terrible flood uh Mill I J ruul\.. Moriah* April 21st* 1800.Mr. Editor:- Sir- The quiet of run* little village was greatly disturbed this morning by learning tiiat a dam. kuuwn as the UpperMili llano containing some lUUaeresor mure of water, had given away and that the contents of the LVnui were coming with irrosistable force down through the town* sweeping _ , #fvervtlilna in it., as it passed 12l! 1*W: 3l,.'Te,'ed fr?m: along. There has been some ITsaw-| mills on this stream, some of which j have gone into disuse; there were , but five or six that wore in running* | order* but the frames of must of, | them were still standing; there was 3 ’. ;u!sy tvvu separator* fur iron ore andm; also two grist mills, one at Moriah1 ; Centre mid the other cm the* Plains.i) ; kuoum as the Collins mill, near Portit I Hoary,v I Every mill on the stream except• i the two grist niills were swept a wav.1 i separators and all. together with a| school house, the Post Office at . j ebu'iah Centre. Cabinet Shop bo-I j longing to Alvin Wood pa®, and a large building belonging to Win. Edgerly. and also his Grocery Store very much undermined: the store occupied by Isaac Me Lyman was injured by undermining; the barn has gom* down with the stream; the saw mill belonging to Heman F, Hartou. and all the logs in t lie Pond, comprising some thousands, were all carried away. The Kail Road grading on the t re route has beenboth of whom ara matt now pastmiddle life.The dam which “gave way’* the morning of April 21.1869, was never rebuilt. The so called “new road” to North Hudson was built by way of Ensign Pond.Ensign Pond was named after a well known Moriah family who formerly operated extensively there, Charles W. Ensign of that family Was elected Sheriff of Essex County in the fall of 1862 and served three years.George C. Beers, Esq., the writer of the graphic description of the great Moriah flood, is now venerable in years and full of glory, being as smart on foot as any young man. He lives with bis son George C. fleers. Jr., in the village of Port Henry and we are glad indeed to be able to state that he still survives the “pale nations of the dead, Bostwick Baldwin, the Paul Revere of Moriah, lives on a farm where he did in April, 1869. The horse he rode the morning of Aprila strain inthe coffin joint and was several months recovering.The Collins grist-mill, so called, was purchased by the late Daniel Wyman of Crown Point in the spring of 1S73 and in May, 1873, Eugene Wyman came to Port Henry to take charge of the establishment. Waiter Johnson* a brother of Hiram John son of Lewis, was long engaged as •‘miller’' in the Collins grist mill. Wm. H. Hancbett, Elizabethtown feed merchant, learned the miller's trade in the Collins mill under Eugene Wyman and Walter Johnson. George S. Kidder of Port Henry, present Supervisor of Moriah, owns and operates the Col lins mill to-day.The Cbas. McDougal mentioned in the Post of April 29, 1869, is none other than our townsman, who was then working for the late Silas H. Wither bee in Port Henry. Mr. McDougal remembers that flood well and we have often talked with him about it, our last interview baviug occurred Monday morning.il tl
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Thu, Jun 18, 1903
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