Word: silt
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...people of New England followed the receding margins of the flood and returned to their riverside towns. Dunes of silt and wreckage filled streets and houses. Food and fuel were scarce. Communication was restored with difficulty. Railroads were broken up for the winter...
...coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp and lay scattered none knew where under the silt. . . . Wet hay combusted spontaneously in barns...
...pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame had obscured the failure of his first experiments. The Passaic River had changed its course, piling silt upon the abandoned hulk which, when salvaged, will now rise to the importance of a major exhibit at the Passaic County Historical Society...
Fishermen came in from the Gulf of Mexico with news that the Gulf Stream had been darkened by the Continent's prodigious discharge of silt; that great fishes were schooling seaward to escape suffocation...
...piercing cries of the population groping in the dark added the element of agony to the scene. Great fissures appeared in the fields, discharging water, sand and silt...