Another Massachusetts Flood

New Ykok, July 14- A Springfield dispatch, giving hti BCpotint of the bursting of the reservoirs in Massachaetta on Snnday ea3's : . The discovcry of thn ]nak wns runde by Deauon Harry Mnacham, who bus been one of the State, Uw-makers but whose name will be reoiatnbergd frora this day not a thut of a Bolón hut as the Collms Graves of Blush Tiollow. At 4 o'clook Suuday aftemonn Mr. Mencham, who lives abuut one-quarter of a milefrom the dain, rigited it, feelingauxious lest the long-continned heavv raiiu hnd weakened it. The dam appeared to hiin at thíit timo all right, hut noticing that the water was rising very rapidly, he bethontflit liiiti tliitt possibly the dam of Little (iooae Pond, on tin; suiall brook emptying nto this reservoir, had given way, and ho wout upthere to investígate. Coming back alter finding that all rignt, and again surveysng tbe dam, he was about to turn away satisfiod, when he was horrified, to see iv heavy land slide on the lower slope of the dam. Knowing at once what that meant, ho got out his horse, raounted him in baste and dashed down to Blush Hollow, oarrying the alarm of the coming waters. The warniug was quite swift enough, giving quite ten minutes lor the escape of men, womeu and children to the hillside, situated as in Skinnerville, but farther off. At about the end of ten minutes the flume gave way and a wall 60 f'eet wide oovered with a cap of snowy foain rushed through it with a roar and aescended upon tho main street with more than the foree of an Alpine avalanche. The terriiied peoplo who happily through the forethought of Deacon Meacham stood on tho hillside in safety, watched the progress of the destroying wave in terror and apprehension. Leaving the main street it branched eastward, rolled down in the rear of houses and into Blush Hollow, an adjoining Tilllage, repeating the ravages described at the the time of the Mili Eiver disaster. Housea went down like pins, trees were torn up by the roots and carried by the waves, and even the surface of the earth was torn and furrowed as though with a mammoth plow. For half an hour the flood maintained its inighty force At 4 30 P. M. it reached the lower dam, and this influx broke the second dam, whose waters poured forth to add to the power of the waves. Keaehing Chester the waters carried away one wooden bridge in the center of the villlage, more or less damaged the foundation of the dams, and the stuck of sevoral inanufacturing establishments, and quite ruined many fields and gardens, Below this village the flood's chief damage outside of that to the railroad was the carrying away of the bridge at Rolling Brook, and then it gradually lost its force and power of mischief. The entire damago by the nood is roughly estimated at f!3ú(),000, and the estimate is a, moderate one, not including the persons thrown out of employment, and tho enforced idleness of the place.