Albany, Nov. 5.
Montpelicr is stil cut off and no assistance is possible until the floods. subside, but "journalist who flew there reports that three lives have been lost. The reservoir has burst land an indescribable scene of de~ solation everywhere meets the eye. Seven thousand persons are without homes: some. are encamped on the hillsides while others are sheltered the public buildings that are still, standing.
'A wireless message from Burling ton, Vermont, states that 25 persons Ihave been drowned there, of whom 17 were State employees. They were {rapped in a boarding-house inthe path of the waters, The residents fof Montpea are suitoring from the cold, as the authorities have commandeered all coal supplies. The twater is 20 feet deep in some streets, The city hall is a ruin. A number of hotels and shops have been destroyed, while houses have Deen ripped apart. and trees torn down. Seven railway bridges are wrecked, and the rail tracks to the city are all twisted. Barre, she miles. distant, " where' Lieutenant-Governor Jackson was drowned, 1s still submerged—Reater.
New York, Nov. 8
The number of fatalities aso result of the floods is still not known, but at least 198 persons. have perished in New England, me eluding 114 in Vermont, 18 in Bas fachusetts, 4. in New Hampshire, Maine and 2 in Gonnecticut.
The losses of homes and herds of pedigree cattle are incalculable.
The towns in the Winooski Valley Ihave been practically wiped out.
Intense cold and snow are impeding the relist operations Survivors from the Wi Valley narrate that a ghostly lof light" passed down-river atthe height of the flood and that savers paused in their heroic work to gaze at n three-storey hous twinkling and bowing in the rush of waters, with every' window light~ ed as if a family were inside pursue ing their normal occupations. "What happened te the house is not known.
A consignment of coffins was sent to Bolton, in the State of Vermont, where many persons were drowned, rivers used them as rafts by. which they paddled their way to safety.
'A fifty-ton rock at Manchester, in the State of New Hampshire, retied down a mountain and cut passing goods-train in two. The engine-men jumped when they: Ineard the rock coming and escaped.
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