The Eastern Chronicle, 28 December 1854, page 2

The snow storm of Sunday, 17th inst., was preceded on Saturday by an unusually severe storm of rain which caused considerable injury to property in different parts of the country.  On the Halifax road a small bridge near to Salmon River was carried away, which caused much detention to the mail for several days.  A correspondent writing from Merigomishe on the 21st inst., says:

"Barny's River was visited on last Saturday with one of the heaviest freshets we have witnessed for twenty years, by which less or more damage was done to all the mills on that stream. Mr. Fraser's saw mill dam is carried off; Mr K. Cameron's and Mr John Dewar's sawmills both damaged; Mr Wm. Dunn's grist mill is much injured by the water getting out of its course and into the lead running from the mill, and filling it up with gravel.  Mr W. Murray's mill, although much injured, is the only one on the river now working.  The old bridge is carried off, the freshet tearing away all the gravel work.  McKinnon's mill at Knoydart is also idle from injuries received, and cannot likely be repaired for the winter."