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Dollar Weekly Mirror
Manchester, Hillsboro County, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
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A record-breaking freshet in the Connecticut River flooded Springfield, Massachusetts, on April 21, submerging Hampden Park and parts of West Springfield, disrupting rail connections southward, and causing extensive property damage. Water levels in Northampton reached unprecedented heights, requiring boats for navigation.
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SPRINGFIELD, MASS., April 21. The freshet in the Connecticut river at this point was the greatest ever known. Railroad connection with the South is entirely cut off, and cars run to the North only as far as Holyoke, passengers for Northampton and beyond being sent round by way of Westfield. Hampden Park, the scene of the great National Horse Shows, is entirely submerged, and the greater part of West Springfield is under water it being so high on Sunday as to flow into the first story windows of many houses. The damage to property is very large.
At nine o'clock this evening the water had fallen about fifteen inches, and is still receding slowly.
At Northampton the water is two feet higher than ever before, and in Hadley street there is no land to be seen, and the inhabitants go from house to house in boats.
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Primary Location
Springfield, Mass.
Event Date
April 21
Outcome
extensive property damage; no casualties mentioned; water receding slowly after peaking on sunday.
Event Details
The freshet caused the greatest flooding ever known in the Connecticut River at Springfield, submerging Hampden Park and much of West Springfield, with water entering first-story windows. Rail connections to the South were cut off, and passengers rerouted via Westfield. In Northampton, water was two feet higher than ever, flooding Hadley Street completely, with residents using boats.