Nashua, New Hampshire Flood
April 1895
THE MERRIMAC RIVER
Higher Than it has been for Years--Still Rising.
Nashua, N. H., April 15--The great rainfall
has raised the Merrimac and Nashua rivers,
together with Salmon Brook, into rushing
torrents. Saturday night and Sunday the rainfall
was the heaviest for a number of years,
averaging 2 3-100 inches. The Merrimac commenced
to rise at an early hour and this morning the
water was 12 feet above low water mark and was
rising at the rate of six inches per hour. The
Jackson
company’s mills are shut down on account of back
water. The Merrimac has overflowed its banks at
the junction of the Nashua. It now threatens to
equal the high record of 1878, when backwater in
the Merrimac rose above the Jackson company’s
dam and flooded the lower rooms of the mills.
Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, IN, 13 April
1895
Transcribed by Helen
Coughlin. Thank you, Helen!
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