Barnet, Vermont, USA (Center, East, West) (McIndoe Falls) (Mosquitoville) (Passumpsic)
1909 - VILLAGE UNDER WATER. Barnet Residents Going About in Boats - Connecticut River at Record High Point.

St. Johnsbury, April 16 - The high water is cauding considerable damage and inconvenience in this vicinity. The trains from the north are obliged to come around by Scott's Junction, N. H., and the train from the south which is due to arrive here at 11:45 o'clock was cancelled this morning. The afternoon trains will probably go by way of Wells River. Railroading in the vicinity of Wells River is decidedly uncertain, the track between that place and Bradford being entirely under water.

A washout on the Boston & Maine, one and one half miles below this place yesterday caused the track to settle so that freight No. 37 which was due here about midnight, was derailed, twenty-six cars being thrown off and it took six hours to get the cars back on to the track. No one was hurt in the accident.

The Connecticut river is at the highest point ever known. Barnet village, ten miles from St. Johnsbury, is partly under water, there being 6 to 7 feet in the lower part of the village where the people are obliged to go about in boats. A washout covering about 75 feet exisgts between Barnet and McIndoes Falls, and it was expected that this would be repaired so that trains could be run this afternoon.

St Albans Daily Messenger
St Albans, Vermont
April 16, 1909

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