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Further down the Winooski valley, at Waterbury, Vt., martial law was declared. Many a flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished 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...
White River. Some 900 Dartmouth College undergraduates & professors turned out of Hanover, N. H., with picks & shovels, to dig out White River Junction, Vt...
Black River. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 87, aunt of President Coolidge, told how the flood came to Proctorsville, Vt., shaking that hamlet at night "like a huge, grey monster...
...Thornton, N. H., Farmer James Cummings was fattening 4,000 turkeys. All were swept away. At Waterbury Vt., 28 died. At Bemis, Vt., seven houses were piled in one heap of wreckage...
Otter Creek put Rutland, Vt., yards under water. One woman died of fright. Relatives of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement were marooned in their hilltop mansion. Railway trackbeds were so deranged they may not function again until next spring...