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■.Tallin*; mu the* (re route has been great ly damaged and tir*■ ir bridge carried off at Forge Hollow. together with much valuable Iimber. The building known as the Plaster Mill at Collins Crist Mill, was swept into the terrible flood to swell the number of its victims: the saw mill belonging t0 the .John Aeome estate and their entire stock wasati carried oil. I, Baldwin lost his mill and stock; Hi rum Sprague's mill, lumber and loos, two barns, shingle machine, etc.. all destroyed; Jacob Pratt- s house stands at an angle of •la degrees, moved some feet frorn its foundation- his barn and corn barn fed the Hood and were carried off in its embrace. Mr. Pratt had just time alter seeing the flood coming, to got uut of his house with his family. fie saved his horses from the barn. There are many narrow escapes told, but tfie truth of which 1 cannot vouch for. Luckily there were no lives lost that I know of. but there might have been, had it not been for the noble conduct- of a young man named Host wiek Baldwin; he seeiny the flood coming, jumped on his horse and run him three miles as fast as he could yo. to notify all that he could on the stream to prepare for the cominy flood. The bridyes boiny gone, he had to run throuyb the lots. His horse fell three times under him on his wav there, stepping into the soft, places in the meadows and pastures throuyb which he had to run. There is one bridge out of fifteen left on the stream, that is the Hiyh Bridge at Port Henry, and the middle abutment was knocked out of that. The stream is now clear of dam or mill, except the two grist mills, from the source of the stream to Lake Champlain. a distance of about six miles, and a fall of about 1.000 or 1.200 feet. The damage done as near as we can calculate is about a half million. There are other incidents about the Hood that 1 have not got.From the same issue of the Post we ijiiote the following additional matter concerning the great flood: Port Henry, April 21.Editor of Post:—There has been the most intense excitement-here today. on account of the water breaking out of the Pond known as ‘•Hennings Pond. It appears that all the water in the “Ensitie Pond. about seven miles from here, broke loose, taking everything in its course, and when it arrived at the Heuninys Pond it divided, part cominy down between the dwellings of Win. (iimkin and Edward Hughes, making frightful havoc, then passing down hcliind the school house, washing out stones, and carrying them for rods, weighing twenty tons; washing away part of the Bail B'*ad bridge, of the Moriah Kail Load, also a piorlion of the Whitehall A Plattsburgh Rail Road, Loss of property heavy, Great praise is due to some of our citizens for their daring efforts to save property bv constructing embankments of stone and timber to keep the water in its proper course; the most, active of which were .Ed. Sheohy. the two Hughes hoys, Geo. Roberts and Chas. MeJiougal. I will give you more particulars about the matter.M. D.Jacob Pratt referred to was au uncle of E. L. and Rev. W. H. Barker of this place. E. L. Barker anti L. Warren Pratt, then mere boys in their native Moriah, started out the morning of the great flood and weut along its track from Ensign Pond to Port Henry. It is needless to add that the impression made was deep and lasting upon the minds of Messrs. Barker and Pratt,oc
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Elizabethtown, New York, US
Thu, Jun 18, 1903
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