The New Hampshire Gazette

FLOOD.—We have received from an authentic source, the following details:—

We learn that the rain which fell on Friday afternoon and night of last week, caused a very sudden and extraordinary rise of the streams in the central parts of the State, attended with great damage to the roads, dams and bridges. In the town of Lancaster, particularly, where the two mountain streams meet, which form the Nashua River, the large bridge situated in the North Village, which was constructed within three years at an expense of more than $12,000, was completely swept away, carried some distance down the stream and much broken to pieces. The several dry bridges and causeways in the same town have also suffered great damage. The damage to the bridges and causeways over and connected with the Nashua alone will exceed the sum of $2000. Great injuries have also been done in the same town to the roads formed as they are of a light soil, leading in every direction. The lumber which was near two of the principal saw mills was swept away, and some of it carried several miles before it was lodged, and much of it probably lost. It is said by the inhabitants of the town, that so sudden and high a rise, and so extensive devastation to roads, bridges, and fences, has not been known for many years.—Bost. Cent.